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All posts tagged "Melbourne Festival"
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104.9KFeaturedSharing the big umbrella: Jo Lloyd and Stephanie Lake at Melbourne Festival
This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival has already made news. Not only is it Jonathan Holloway’s final year as Artistic Director, but...
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3.6KFeaturedYang Liping’s ‘Rite of Spring’: The universal ritual
For choreographers, The Rite Of Spring is as close to a rite of passage as it gets. Made famous by the scandalous Ballets...
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3.1KFeaturedMark Morris’ ‘Layla and Majnun’: Love will tear us apart
The template is well known: doomed young lovers are cruelly kept apart, staring down death rather than yielding the truth and beauty...
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3.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsMette Ingvartsen’s ‘7 Pleasures’ explores the body at Melbourne Festival
Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne. 19 October 2017. Early Judaeo-Christian mythologies indoctrinate us in the shame of our body. Eve feels this when she...
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3.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsHillel Kogan’s ‘We Love Arabs’ has potential to be political satire
The Coopers Malthouse Beckett Theatre, Melbourne. 18 October 2017. Are we so scared of being politically incorrect, of being perceived as intolerant,...
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3.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsInfinity in Phillip Adams BalletLab’s ‘EVER’ at Melbourne Festival
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...
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4.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsGravity and Other Myths presents ‘Backbone’ at Melbourne Festival
Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne. 8 October 2017. Gravity and Other Myths is a highly lauded, acrobatic ensemble based in Adelaide. The company’s previous...
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4.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsWayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx collaborate for ‘Tree of Codes’ at Melbourne Festival
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. 17 October 2017. So much of Tree Of Codes is about surface. Canvas, page, screen – the reflection/refraction...
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4.4KFeaturedPhillip Adams BalletLab’s ‘EVER’: Please observe the silence
“I take great pride in failure,” Phillip Adams declares, with more than hint of provocation. “I allow myself to take a bullet...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance Territories double bill: ‘Border Lines’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. October 14, 2016. The thing that unifies this sometimes provocative evening of dance and installation is the notion of “overlooking”,...
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3.8KFeaturedLe Patin Libre on ice during Melbourne Festival
From heavily sequined competition kitsch to serious high art, festival fodder? On ice? Really? It sounds a little unlikely, but the Montreal-based...
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3.9KFeaturedFaye Driscoll: The site is the body
They say that all artists are obsessed with themselves, but some artists at least are obsessed with the self. Brooklyn-based, Bessie Award-winning...
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5.7KFeaturedMelbourne Festival Presents Intriguing Dance Program
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,...
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5.7KGiveawaysWin tickets to ‘Fault Lines’ in Sydney!
Fault Lines, a unique collaboration between Leshan Dance Company, Melbourne Arts Festival and Christchurch Arts Festival, is touring to Sydney and Canberra...
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5.2KFeaturesBetter Together: ‘Complexity of Belonging’
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. A Dutch choreographer, a German writer, the English language, five dancers, four actors and one international...
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10.1KInterviewsChunky Move’s James Vu Anh Pham
By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. Plucked from third year at New Zealand School of Dance by Chunky Move’s Artistic Director Anouk...
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2.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Rite of Spring/Petrushka – Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne October 13, 2013 By Rain Francis. Direct from Ireland, the gloriously-named Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre brought a double bill...
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3.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsSun – Hofesh Shechter
Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne October 13, 2013 By Rain Francis. In 2011 Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter brought his hugely popular Political Mother to the...
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5.2KTop StoriesThe Choreography Of Violence: Fabulous Beast’s ‘Rite of Spring’
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. Contemporary dance and sacrificial slaughter aren’t regular bedfellows but when Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring explodes onto...
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11.6KInterviewsSolar power: Hofesh Shechter
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. When one of the dance world’s hottest contemporary names chooses to premiere his new work at...
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3.8KTop StoriesByron Perry on ‘DoubleThink’ and ‘Gogglebox’
By Grace Edwards. Delving into the diverse realms of quantum physics, psychology and television, Force Majeure’s Associate Director and award-winning choreographer Byron...
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4.7KFeaturesMelbourne Dance in the spring
By Rain Francis. Melburnians are eagerly awaiting the arrival of spring. Time to shed one of our many layers and get out...
