Keir Choreographic Award Archives - Dance Informa Magazine

Amrita Hepi's 'Rinse'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse.

Announcing eight commissions for the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award

The biennial Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), now in its fifth edition, is a premiere event for the Australian dance scene. It is...

Emmanuel James Brown in 'Jurrungu Ngan-ga' by Marrugeku. Photo by Abby Murray.

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Carriageworks announces 2022 program and building refurbishment

Carriageworks has announced its first confirmed projects within a strong 2022 program to be presented across the Redfern-based multi-arts precinct, spanning dance, music,...

Angela Goh in 'Sky Blue Mythic'. Photo by Zan Wimberley.

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Australian Dance Reviews

‘Sky Blue Mythic’: Exploring our dystopian future

Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 May 2021. Sky Blue Mythic is an exploration into the human future using contemporary dance’s familiar tropes of careful...

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Sydney Opera House ‘UnWrapped’

The Sydney Opera House has unveiled the latest instalment of live music, First Nations cabaret, contemporary dance and digital performance works-in-development as...

Sydney Dance Company's 'Impermanence'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Adelaide Festival 2021 is full of dance highlights

The 2021 Adelaide Festival is coming up from 26 February to 14 March 2021, and the program is full of exciting dance...

Prue Lang's 'Project F'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Australian Dance Reviews

Prue Lang’s ‘Project F’: Theoretical futures of feminist spirits

The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. 29 February 2020. Project F by Prue Lang is presented in the context of the Keir Choreographic Awards. The Keir’s is in its fourth iteration. The great...

Photo courtesy of Adam Linder and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles.

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Carriageworks announces public program for 2020 Keir Choreographic Award

Carriageworks, Australia Council for the Arts and the Keir Foundation have announced details of the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award (KCA) public program, led by...

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Australian Dance Theatre’s double announcement: 2020 program and new executive director

Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) will be celebrating its 55th year in 2020, and that’s not the company’s only news. With an ambitiously...

Angela Goh, Scum Ballet. Photo by Catherine McElhone.

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Eight new commissions for the Keir Choreographic Award

The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks, Dancehouse and the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the eight artists and collectives who have been commissioned to make...

Atlanta Eke The Tennis Piece. Photo by Tim Birnie

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Atlanta Eke’s ‘The Tennis Piece’: In the court of public movement

What if there was a dance work that referenced both politics and sport and featured a 408-member ensemble performing Renaissance dance routines...

Lilian Steiner in 'Memoir for Rivers and the Dictator'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Interviews

Lilian Steiner on living a life full of dance

Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with freelance dancer/choreographer Lilian Steiner, fresh off the back of the Sydney leg of the...

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Meg Stuart: Trans-personal hygiene

On stage, there is a drum kit. It is a warm early autumn night, and the auditorium is tightly packed for the...

Bhenji Ra's work at KCA 2018. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti for Dancehouse.

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Australian Dance Reviews

Eight artists at the Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals

Dancehouse, Melbourne. March 6 and 9, 2018. Although artists often indulge in the fantasy of their own exceptionalism, and others are wont...

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2018 Keir Choreographic Award announces 8 selected artists

The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks and Dancehouse have announced the eight artists who have been selected for the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award, Australia’s...