This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival has already made news. Not only is it Jonathan Holloway’s final year as Artistic Director, but...
For choreographers, The Rite Of Spring is as close to a rite of passage as it gets. Made famous by the scandalous Ballets...
The template is well known: doomed young lovers are cruelly kept apart, staring down death rather than yielding the truth and beauty...
Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne. 19 October 2017. Early Judaeo-Christian mythologies indoctrinate us in the shame of our body. Eve feels this when she...
The Coopers Malthouse Beckett Theatre, Melbourne. 18 October 2017. Are we so scared of being politically incorrect, of being perceived as intolerant,...
Temperance Hall, Melbourne. 7 October 2017. Phillip Adams’ company, BalletLab, is known for experimental work. EVER is no exception. EVER is a work in three...
Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne. 8 October 2017. Gravity and Other Myths is a highly lauded, acrobatic ensemble based in Adelaide. The company’s previous...
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. 17 October 2017. So much of Tree Of Codes is about surface. Canvas, page, screen – the reflection/refraction...
“I take great pride in failure,” Phillip Adams declares, with more than hint of provocation. “I allow myself to take a bullet...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. October 14, 2016. The thing that unifies this sometimes provocative evening of dance and installation is the notion of “overlooking”,...
From heavily sequined competition kitsch to serious high art, festival fodder? On ice? Really? It sounds a little unlikely, but the Montreal-based...
They say that all artists are obsessed with themselves, but some artists at least are obsessed with the self. Brooklyn-based, Bessie Award-winning...
Melbourne Festival returns October 8-25 to celebrate 30 years of presenting the city’s best arts experiences. With a jam-packed line-up of dance,...
Fault Lines, a unique collaboration between Leshan Dance Company, Melbourne Arts Festival and Christchurch Arts Festival, is touring to Sydney and Canberra...
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. A Dutch choreographer, a German writer, the English language, five dancers, four actors and one international...
By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. Plucked from third year at New Zealand School of Dance by Chunky Move’s Artistic Director Anouk...
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne October 13, 2013 By Rain Francis. Direct from Ireland, the gloriously-named Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre brought a double bill...
Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne October 13, 2013 By Rain Francis. In 2011 Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter brought his hugely popular Political Mother to the...
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. Contemporary dance and sacrificial slaughter aren’t regular bedfellows but when Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring explodes onto...
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. When one of the dance world’s hottest contemporary names chooses to premiere his new work at...
By Grace Edwards. Delving into the diverse realms of quantum physics, psychology and television, Force Majeure’s Associate Director and award-winning choreographer Byron...
By Rain Francis. Melburnians are eagerly awaiting the arrival of spring. Time to shed one of our many layers and get out...