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1.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Grey Rhino’: Big societal issues translated into dance
Carriageworks, Sydney.20 January 2022. Sydney Festival 2022 central theme has been “finding your Sydney” and has been an opportunity to showcase and...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsDarlinghurst Theatre Company’s ‘A Chorus Line’ is a delight
Riverside Theatre, Sydney.15 January 2022. It is with much excitement that Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) has chosen to revive A Chorus Line, with...
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s New Breed: A powerful eighth year
Carriageworks, Sydney. 4 December 2021. This is the eighth year of New Breed, the inspiration of Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, where four developing choreographers are...
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsHolly Durant’s ‘Alter Edith’: A familiar innate strangeness
fortyfivedownstairs theatre, Melbourne. 1 December 2021. We enter the space, tentative, like early arrivals at a nightclub. Lights, music, no queue at the...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsHigh-tech combination of dance and film: Sue Healey’s ‘On View: Panoramic Suite’
Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital.24 October 2021. Eight years in the making, Sue Healey’s On View: Panoramic Suite is a high-tech challenging...
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1.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsJulie-Anne Long’s ‘Queenie Gives An Address’: Meeting an Invisiblist up close
Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital. 21 October 2021. Julie-Anne Long’s Queenie Gives An Address is a subversive, challenging performance full of social comment....
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘Star Spangled Banter’: A delightfully discomforting space
Dancehouse/Melbourne Fringe.14 October 2021. If called upon to boil it down to a single word, it would be…post. Post-dance, post-theatre, post-modern…post pretty...
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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Bauhaus’ and ‘Out of the Blue’ at Sydney Fringe
Sydney Fringe 2021.Presented online. I managed to catch two events as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival which were also part of the...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance (Lens) highlights dance films from Australia and internationally
Dancehouse, Melbourne. August 2021. Dance (Lens) is a most exciting festival of screen dance organised by Dancehouse in Melbourne. Thirty-three short works are...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsJamestown Collective explores cultures with ‘INFUSION, No Movement’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.5 June 2021. Jamestown Collective brings to the Sydney Opera House its collaborative work, INFUSION, No Movement, No Sound. Headed...
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2.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Little Prince’: A timeless, other-worldly journey
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 27 May 2021. Direct from Paris, The Little Prince has finally made it to Australian Shores after a cancelled 2020 mid-COVID season, and it...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsFORM Dance Projects’ ‘NARCIFIXION’: Identity in the digital age
Riverside Theatres, Sydney.13 May 2021. Choreographed and performed by two major Independent dance artists, Anton (Legs On The Wall, Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance...
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1.5KAustralian 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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2.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet is back with new director and ‘New York Dialects’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 April 2021. The Australian Ballet is back in Sydney, after a long break due to COVID, and the...
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2.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Fangirls’: Teenage spirit and the purpose of music
Playhouse Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne.29 April 2021. Following successful seasons in Queensland and Sydney, Yve Blake’s Fangirls arrives in Melbourne. Directed by Paige...
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5.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsSparkles and smiles with the premiere of ’The Wedding Singer’
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. 1 May 2021. For two hours and 20 minutes, you pack up your troubles in your old ‘80s gym bag...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsIn this unsettling world: Deanne Butterworth’s ‘Slow Calm Drama’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsCirca’s ‘Shaun the Sheep’: Forget the TV, get to the circus
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 14 April 2021. Brisbane’s Circa is back with a show for preschool and primary kids. Director Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble have crafted a contemporary...
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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Foul of the Air’: Not so easily forgotten
The Landlord, Summer Hill, Sydney. 31 March 2021. The Foul of the Air by The Living Room Theatre and directed by Michelle St Anne, as...
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1.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘La Traviata’: Verdi’s opera outdoors on Sydney Harbour
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. 26 March 2021. It was a week of torrential rain and flooding, but on opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, the clouds cleared to...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe mysterious ‘Sounds Of Digital’ at March Dance
Online, as part of March Dance.17 March 2021. Sounds Of Digital is a striking interactive event, part film, part workshop developed by Adrina...
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2.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsMarch Dance gives it up for hip hop in Happy Hour ‘Street Elite’
13 March 2021. ReadyMade Works, Sydney. The second week of March Dance, Sydney’s festival of independent dance, marked the first time that hip...
