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222Australian Dance Reviews‘Moving Portraits’: The choreography of dance on film
Dancehouse, Melbourne.27 November 2024. Early in 2015, I was lucky enough to see the first iteration of Sue Healey’s On View during...
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216Australian Dance Reviews‘Holiday Inn’ at Hayes Theatre Co: Not just a show but a celebration
Hayes Theatre, Sydney.24 November 2024. Step into a world of snowflakes, song and dance as Holiday Inn, presented by Well Done Creative...
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395Australian Dance ReviewsHolly Childs and Angela Goh’s ‘Cliffhanger’: A palette of finely detailed movement
Arts House, Melbourne.13 November 2024. Sisyphus, Scheherazade, scrolling. It goes on…and on…and on. Always suspended between starting and ending. As if we...
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344Australian Dance ReviewsChunky Move in the magic of Antony Hamilton’s ‘4/4’
Union Theatre, Melbourne.1 November 2024. As a language, mathematics is universal. Beautiful and brutal, its truths as unforgiving as its mystery. Perhaps...
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433Australian Dance Reviews‘Dear Evan Hansen’: A much-needed narrative
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.24 October 2024. Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Dean Bryant, is a coming-of-age musical about teenager Evan Hansen, who...
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362Australian Dance ReviewsDirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio 2024: Emerging voices
Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program,...
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413Australian Dance ReviewsArabella Frahn-Starkie’s ‘Pictures & Ghosts’: Still things moving
Guild Theatre, Melbourne.9 October 2024. We know that everything is ephemeral, even though we mostly reside in the delusion of permanence. In...
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689Australian Dance Reviews‘Molly’ at Melbourne Fringe: We are all actors
Guild Theatre, Melbourne. 2 October 2024. The arcs of narrative and the more figurative trajectories of dance can make for troublesome geometry; not...
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523Australian Dance ReviewsChou Kuan Jou’s ‘Tomato’: Turning the lens on us
Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet,...
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390Australian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company in double bill ‘Twofold’: The world we live in
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2024. Sydney Dance Company presented its second Sydney season for 2024 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre this...
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649Australian Dance Reviews‘Sister Act’: A groovy family friendly show
Capitol Theatre, Sydney.11 September 2024. The most heavenly of musicals Sister Act has hit the Sydney stage this spring. Based on the 1992...
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549Australian Dance ReviewsBangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Horizon’: The importance of home
Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne.28 August 2024. There was something in the air on opening night of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Horizon,...
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505Australian Dance ReviewsA celebration of life: Fresh Movement Collective’s ‘MĀUI’
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.29 August 2024. New Zealand/Aotearoa’s Fresh Movement Collective (FMC) brought its poignant, poetic and explosive dance theatre...
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482Australian Dance ReviewsSimonne Smiles’ ‘Gold’: Uniquely Australian
Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Sydney.15 August 2024. Gold is a new classical ballet work, created by Simonne Smiles, who both produced and...
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986Australian Dance ReviewsCirca’s ‘Duck Pond’: Taking a deep dive into the lake
Sydney Coliseum Theatre, Sydney.4 July 2024. Brisbane based contemporary circus company Circa, brought its production, Duck Pond, to the Sydney Coliseum Theatre...
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1.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsHolroyd Musical and Dramatic Society presents memorable production of ‘Oliver!’
Redgum Function Centre, Sydney.22 July 2024. Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society (HMDS) has opened its annual run of community theatre for the...
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1.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Chicago’ in Sydney: In the hands of fresh performers
Capital Theatre, Sydney.13 June 2024. Chicago opened to standing ovation in Capitol Theatre Sydney this week. This iconic musical, written by John Kander...
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815Australian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin’s ‘One Single Action’: Activating our own storytelling capacity
Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne. 14 June 2024. It looks like a simple proposition. Two dancers, a plain set and an orb hung like a moon. In a...
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720Australian Dance ReviewsMiet Warlop’s ‘One Song’: An amped up meditation on the human condition
Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne.13 June 2024. It is a brave person who asks their audience to listen to one song over and...
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656Australian Dance ReviewsChunky Move’s ‘You, Beauty’: Dancing with love and cruelty
Immigration Museum, Melbourne.5 June 2024. The thing about beauty is that it can sometimes be a tyrant, much as desire and suffering...
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582Australian Dance ReviewsL.A. Dance Project’s ‘Romeo and Juliet Suite’: A must-see interpretation of a classic
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.5 June 2024. Choreographer Benjamin Millepied and L.A. Dance Project presented a gripping reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic in...
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648Australian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company in ‘Momenta’: Transcending physical limitations
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.28 May 2024. In Momenta, Sydney Dance Company strips back to reveal the physics of human connection through time....
