Sixty years of ballet history ‘pointe’ to the future
The Australian Ballet School's 60th gala performance draws on past and present students in a celebration of artistic growth and legacies turned new.
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"Love Lock is a work for this century. It is brash at times but always demanding of our thoughts about humanity. A triumph for its choreographer and her collaborators." MICHELLE POTTER reviews a new work from the Sydney Dance Company.
The Australasian Dance Education Awards are coming up on October 26, but it’s time to start crowing now, as Queanbeyan’s Bom Funk Dance Studio has been named a finalist in seven categories.
"The work pulled no punches but certainly gave us a profound examination of shameful issues, largely those emerging from incarceration and the detention of refugees," writes dance reviewer MICHELLE POTTER.
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A five-star show when dance meets music
"The truly outstanding feature of Silence & Rapture was the theatricality that permeated the evening, especially in the use of the stage space," writes reviewer MICHELLE POTTER.
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Big dance stars, a B.I.G. deal for ballet fans
Arts editor HELEN MUSA talks to Joel Burke, the 23-year-old founder of the phenomenally successful Ballet International Gala.
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Wired dancers go the full distance
"These talented and hard-working dancers should be rightfully proud of what they have presented in Wired," writes dance reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews Manage Your Expectations, a performance of physical theatre by Eliza Sanders.
Canberra’s QL2 Dance has been invited by the Australian embassy in Bangkok to perform as part of a large-scale event to celebrate the birthday of Thailand’s King at the weekend.
After three years of presenting contemporary twists on the classics, The Training Ground ballet ensemble in Canberra is taking a leap into a more "conceptual" kind of ballet, based on a true-crime episode.
"Horizon is an admirable undertaking and, as is usual with Bangarra productions, the collaborative elements were exceptional," writes reviewer MICHELLE POTTER.
Former ANU academic PETER BROWN writes from Tahiti’s biggest cultural event of the year, the Heiva festival.
Canberra dancers from Legs Performing Arts is soon heading to the 2024 Tianjin International Children’s Festival, the only Australian delegation to be invited this year.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews the Australian Dance Party's performance of The Dataset.
"Creating a symbiosis of movement, space and time and timelessness in endless space, this beautiful production leaves a lasting impression." SAMARA PURNELL reviews the Sydney Dance Company's performance of Momenta.
"The production is easy to watch, with no demands on the audience other than to enjoy a pleasant and uplifting night." SAMARA PURNELL reviews the Victorian State Ballet's production of Beauty and the Beast.
"Subject to Change was one of Quantum Leap’s strongest productions and a fitting farewell to Ruth Osborne who has been at the helm of QL2 Dance since the beginning of its existence some 25 years ago," writes reviewer MICHELLE POTTER.
QL2 Dance is presenting its annual major production in The Playhouse titled Subject To Change. It will be the last for founding director Ruth Osborne, who, after 25 years is stepping down, reports HELEN MUSA.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews a Dance Week performance by Warehouse Circus called We're Home.
