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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown
7 – 9 March 2021. Online, as part of March Dance. A Small Spectacle is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsTransported at Adelaide Festival: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Impermanence’
Festival Theatre, Adelaide.10 March 2021. I’m not sure we all need a reminder of how impermanent our comfortable lives are after the...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsFear of loneliness and solitude: ‘Oh Boy!’ at March Dance
Dance Cinema online screening.1 March 2021. As part of March Dance, we are privileged to see Oh Boy! by Hadi Moussally. It is...
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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsDefying gravity at Adelaide Festival: Gravity & Other Myths’s ‘The Pulse’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.26 February 2021. In a time of limited crowds and social distancing, The Pulse felt liberated and effervescent. Sixty performers all...
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2.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Drummer Queens’: Hits the right beat
Drummer Queens is an original all-Australian theatrical show created and composed by Joe Accaria. Featuring the talents of eight female performers, Accaria...
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2.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe re-opening of Melbourne commercial theatre following lockdowns with ‘Come From Away’
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.28 January 2021. Come From Away is a musical based on a true story. Amidst the September 11 attacks in 2001,...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsMarking Bangarra’s 30th anniversary in film: ‘Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra’
February 2021. Bangarra is a Wiradjuri word which means “to make fire”. Firestarter is a stunningly photographed film directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne...
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1.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Spirit’ at Sydney Festival: The Bangarra retrospective 2021
The Headland Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney.22 January 2021. After 10 months in hibernation, Bangarra Dance Theatre has returned to the stage with a...
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1.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe triumphant return of Opera Australia’s ‘The Merry Widow’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.9 January 2021. There was a buzz and excitement as well as quite a few bedazzled masks, as audiences...
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2.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Frozen’: The hit Broadway musical is taking Sydney by storm
10 December 2020. Capitol Theatre, Sydney. It was seven years ago when Disney’s animated film Frozen opened in cinemas in the USA, smashing records...
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1.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsThank God for theatre: ‘PIPPIN’ reopens Broadway in Australia
Sydney Lyric at The Star, Sydney.3 December 2020. After what seemed like an eternity, Sydney audiences are once again eagerly sitting in...
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2.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ 2020: Performing under the new normal
Carriageworks, Sydney.26 November 2020. As large swathes of the globe were undergoing renewed COVID second wave lockdowns, Sydney Dance Company was tentatively...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsLooking into lockdown: Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson in ‘Drishti’
Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.17 November 2020. Firstly, what jumps out is the control both Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson exhibit....
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘I Am Maggie’: A participatory biography
Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.13 November 2020. There is an unsettling disjuncture at the digital heart of Jonathan Homsey’s I Am Maggie, presented...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsPerformance Space Live-on-the-Line: Sue Healey’s ‘Live Action Relay’
23 October 2020. Streamed online for Liveworks 2020. A musician crouched in desert plants and red-tinged dirt, the sounds he creates on various...
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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsLOcREaDO Dance Company: Finding a moment to ‘Pause’
Parade Playhouse Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2020. PAUSE? This work from LOcREaDO Dance Company is so full of relentless energy you are exhausted...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsPrue 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...
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4.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsHu Shenyuan and Aakash Odedra’s ‘Saṃsāra’: In it, a gem resides
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 5 March 2020. Back in September, when Dance Informa first spoke to Hu Shenyuan about Saṃsāra, he said (of the Sanskrit word) that one possible Mandarin...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsCross-pollination: Akira Kasai’s ‘Pollen Revolution’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 20 February 2020. How does the world enter the soul? Can a nation reside in the body of an individual citizen?...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin and Robi Rusdiana’s ‘Metal’: Do opposites attract?
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 24 February 2020. It does not take long for the boundaries to be tested. Indeed, at times Metal pushes into terrain that...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsGo for the dancing: ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 22 February 2020. From play, to feature film to stage musical, the story of Billy Elliot has found an audience in different forms...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsRaw presence in Ruri Mito’s ‘Matou’
Dancehouse, Melbourne.14 February 2020. We think of dance as being centred in the body, but what if that body were not human?...
