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All posts tagged "Stephen Page"
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912FeaturedBangarra commences search for new dancers in 2025
Applications are now open for Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 2025 Russell Page Graduate dancer(s), as well as professionally contracted dancer position(s). Applications will...
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1.6KInterviewsMoving away from all that exists: Benjamin Curé talks about his Lion Heart for dance
Graeme Murphy, Christopher Wheeldon, Andy Blankenbuehler, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Gattelli, Stephen Page and Benjamin Curé. We spoke to the Director of Lion...
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1.2KFeaturedAdelaide Festival announces 2024 program
The 39th Adelaide Festival, the first of the next three Festivals curated by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and Chief Executive Kath...
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816Australian Dance ReviewsDance as storytelling: Bangarra Dance Theatre in ‘Yuldea’
Arts Centre, Melbourne.29 September 2023. In her first year as the Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Frances Rings was always going...
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1.5KInterviewsThe McDonald College appoints new Head of Musical Theatre
The McDonald College is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathryn Dunn as their next Head of Musical Theatre. Dunn is a...
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1.4KFeaturedBeau Dean Riley Smith to depart Bangarra after 10 years
Bangarra has announced that Senior Artist Beau Dean Riley Smith will depart after celebrating 10 extraordinary years with the company. Riley Smith...
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1.1KFeaturedNew online exhibition explores iconic connection of Bangarra and The Australian Ballet
The Australian Performing Arts Collection presents Rites: Dancing towards a shared history, a digital exhibition exploring the first ever collaboration between Bangarra Dance Theatre and The Australian Ballet. The...
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1.2KFeaturedBangarra celebrates the contribution of departing company dancers
Bangarra has announced that dancers Rika Hamaguchi, Baden Hitchcock and Bradley Smith will depart the company following the end of the company’s...
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2.4KFeaturedFrances Rings named new artistic director of Bangarra
Bangarra Dance Theatre has announced the appointment of Kokatha woman Frances Rings as the company’s incoming artistic director. Rings will take on...
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2.0KEventsBangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company reveal world premiere of ‘Wudjang: Not the Past’
In a first-time co-production, two powerhouse arts companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company, will join forces to present the world...
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3.2KFeaturedBangarra appoints new company dancer Emily Flannery
Bangarra is thrilled to announce the appointment of a new company dancer, Emily Flannery, a proud Wiradjuri woman from Forbes in the...
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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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4.4KFeaturedAware of the journey: Ella Havelka leaps from The Australian Ballet to Bangarra Dance Theatre and back again
Ella Havelka — dancer, Wiradjuri artist, choreographer and public speaker — is one of the most remarkable and grounded artists of her generation....
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2.8KFeaturedBangarra Dance Theatre: How to make a fire
We are in Melbourne, early spring, and the house is packed once again. 30 Years Of Sixty Five Thousand is finishing its near...
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3.1KFeaturedA farewell for Bangarra’s Elma Kris
After an extensive career as a long-standing senior member of Bangarra Dance Theatre, the highly-esteemed Elma Kris is retiring from full-time dancer,...
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3.6KFeaturedBangarra’s ‘Dubboo’: Blood and song (and 20 Tina Turners)
The word “family” is one of the many overused memes of marketing; but in the case of Bangarra Dance Theatre, its application...
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3.4KDance AdviceJuggling a dance career with children: Yolande Brown, Bangarra Dance Theatre
Dance Informa continues its series, Juggling a Dance Career with Children, with Yolande Brown, who shows that motherhood can lead to unexpected...
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4.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra Dance Theatre brings Aboriginal history to life in ‘Dark Emu’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 14 June 2018. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Dark Emu, is visually stunning and superbly choreographed and danced. More abstract...
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5.9KFeaturedStephen Page’s ‘Dark Emu’: The animation of negative space
That a recently published book which examines pre-colonial land management amongst Australia’s First Nation peoples should directly inspire a dance work isn’t...
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5.7KFeaturedStephen Page on his Australia Council Award and new work ‘Bennelong’
If we’re being honest, art is nigh impossible to extricate from politics, from notions of what kind of society we are and...
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5.2KFeaturedBangarra Dance Theatre welcomes 2017 with new works
After a challenging 2016, including the sad death of the company’s Music Director David Page, Bangarra Dance Theatre is kicking off the...
