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All posts tagged "Sydney Festival"
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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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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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1.6KFeaturedSydney Festival embarks on 25 days of Australian-made masterpieces
During a period defined by uncertainty, Sydney Festival has defied the odds, marking its opening with a city-wide celebration of Australian art...
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3.8KFeaturedAdelaide Festival 2021 is full of dance highlights
The 2021 Adelaide Festival is coming up from 26 February to 14 March 2021, and the program is full of exciting dance...
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1.9KFeaturedFirst Peoples storytellers take centre stage in 2021 Yellamundie Festival
Moogahlin Performing Arts, together with Sydney Festival and Carriageworks, will present six ground-breaking works from eight First Peoples storytellers as part of the fifth biennial Yellamundie...
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1.7KFeaturedCampbelltown Arts Centre creates a hub of dance for Sydney Festival 2021
Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C) will present a powerful program of contemporary dance and art as part of Sydney Festival 2021. C-A-C has...
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3.3KInterviewsFestival vision: Olivia Ansell lands coveted Sydney Festival director’s role
Sydney Opera House director of contemporary dance, circus and physical theatre, Olivia Ansell has been appointed Sydney Festival Director from 2022. This...
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3.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Bran Nue Dae’ teaches about our past but looks toward the future
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney.17 January 2020. Thirty years after its original stage debut, Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae has hit the Riverside...
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2.5KFeaturedNick Power: When two tribes (start to dance)
From its beginnings amongst the urban poor in New York (sometime between the late ‘60s and mid ‘70s), hip hop has gone...
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2.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Frontera’: Intense running against technological borders
Carriageworks, Sydney.7 January 2020. Canadian avant-garde choreographer Dana Gingras and her troupe, Animals of Distinction, premiered their intense socially engaged work Frontera to Australian audiences...
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2.2KFeaturedSDC Pre Professional Year Class Of 2019 prepares to take flight
It’s been a long and exhausting rehearsal for Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s Pre Professional Year (PPY) class of 2019. They have just...
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3.7KFeaturedDana Gingras: Dancing at the border wall
Frontiers, borders, limits…freedom. We hear these words thrown around. Weaponised, pathologised, sanctified. Yet, beneath the spectacle of polemic and the dichotomies of...
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2.5KFeaturedIt’s coming: Sydney Festival 2020 program announced
Just a few days ago, Sydney Festival announced its highly anticipated 2020 program, featuring an exciting array of theatre, music, visual art...
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3.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance North’s ‘Dust’: How our interactions shape our world
Carriageworks, Sydney. 9 January 2019. Under the direction of the ever-innovative Kyle Page and Amber Haines, Townsville’s native Dance North presented Dust,...
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2.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsContemporary storytelling in ‘One Infinity’ at Sydney Festival
Carriageworks, Sydney. 23 January 2019. One Infinity is a wonderful collaboration of traditional Chinese storytelling, and contemporary ways to express these. Based...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsA reimagining of the holiday classic in ‘The Nutcracker and I’
City Recital Hall, Sydney. 19 January 2019. In The Nutcracker and I, part of the Sydney Festival, Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu reimagines Tchaikovsky’s...
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2.7KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Biladurang’: Joel Bray and 19 others in a motel room
QT Sydney, Sydney. 11 January 2019. One man and a maximum of 19 others in a motel room… Biladurang, as part of...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsExplosive and exciting: ‘In the Heights’ at Sydney Festival
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 16 January 2019. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights, once again takes to the stage in...
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5.3KFeaturedDancenorth’s ‘Dust’: Between choreography and architecture
Collaboration is a central pillar of our creative process, and Dust is a true testament to inherent power of creating space in which...
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3.2KFeatured‘The Nutcracker and I’: A dancer, a piano, several drawings and a newly cracked Nut
Question without notice: how would you stage Nutcracker with just one dancer? Answer: have Clara dance with a cartoon. Since it debuted in...
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7.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsAt Sydney Festival, ‘Cella’ looks at wonder of the human body
Carriageworks, Sydney. 18 January 2018. Eloquently, elegantly and passionately performed, Cella is haunting, powerful and hypnotic. The work, intricate and fluid, is...
