Dance writer SAMARA PURNELL reports from Fresh Funk’s 18th birthday celebration at The Street Theatre on October 27.
Dance / “Belong”. QL2 at Theatre 3 until October 20. Reviewed by SAMARA PURNELL
DIRECT from New York, as they say in showbiz, Les Ballets Eloelle’s male comedy ballet show, “Men in Pink Tights”, is about to seize the limelight in Canberra. It should play into Australian audiences’ penchant […]
Dance / “Happiness is…Celebrating 40 Years of Canberra Dance Theatre”. Directed by Jacqui Simmonds at The Street Theatre. October 14. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS
THERE are few dance companies in the world that can claim to have been founded by a brilliant international scientist, but Canberra Dance Theatre, now celebrating its 40th birthday, is one such. It was created […]
Dance / “World Superstars of Ballet Gala”. At Canberra Theatre, October 2-3. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS
THE National Gallery of Australia is expanding the parameters of “American Masters” with an international dance residency in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust, which will be running until the end of the week. After […]
Dance / “ab (intra)”, choreographed by Raphael Bonachela, Sydney Dance Company. At Canberra Theatre until September 1. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS
![Janessa Dufty and Izzac Carroll in “ab [intra]”... pure contemporary dance, “quite literally a work of breadth and scale." Photo by Pedro Greig](https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ab_intra_180511_0634_Janessa-Dufty_Izzac-Carroll_byPedroGreig-e1534138623912-78x78.png "Arts / Where dance comes from deep inside")
ONE of Sydney Dance Company director Rafael Bonachela’s all-time favourite films is Stephen Daldry’s 2000 movie, “Billy Elliot”. That’s easy to understand. The story of a boy who grows up in a non-dancing home in […]
dance / “Dark Emu”, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Canberra Theatre, July 26-28. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS.
ALREADY rejoicing at the news that Quantum Leap’s production “This Poisoned Sea” has been shortlisted for an Australian Dance Award, its umbrella organisation, QL2 Dance, is preparing to celebrate 20 years of a wonderful adventure […]
By SAMARA PURNELL.
MICHELLE Heine’s Legs Dance Studio is off this week to the Tianjin International Children’s Festival. With children from more than 40 countries participating, the festival, which runs from July 27 to 31, is estimated to […]
LOOKING to the night sky, south to the Southern Cross, you might see the Dark Emu. That’s the mixture of negative space and dust cloud in the spot where Scorpio meets the Milky Way and […]
Dance / “The Beginning of Nature”, Australian Dance Theatre, Canberra Theatre until June 15. Reviewed by BILL STEPHENS
TO reach the top in ballet takes more than just talent and two young dancers at the National Capital Ballet School are perfect examples of what it takes. Abigail Davidson and Soraya Sullivan have both […]
CANBERRA has an extraordinary record when it comes to producing elite dancers. Elsewhere, I have written about the principal ballerina with the Australian Ballet, Lana Jones, and now news has arrived from 20-year-old, self-styled “Canberra […]
THE Australian Dance Theatre is returning to Canberra with another of director Garry Stewart’s fiendishly difficult yet breathtakingly beautiful pieces of choreography, “The Beginning of Nature”. It’s a play on the title of Bill McKibben’s […]
A LIVELY crew of young Canberrans have made it into the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Phoenix, Arizona, where they’ll be representing Australia in the World Battles from August 5-11. “CityNews” catches up with […]
WHEN Robert Helpmann conceived this version of “The Merry Widow” for The Australian Ballet in 1975, he created the jewel in the crown of the company’s repertoire, an enduring and popular work which has become […]
UP to 100 police and members of the ACT State Emergency Service will search on a large area of Mount Ainslie this weekend (November 17-18) in relation to a historic missing person case. Police say […]
A BLACK Yamaha motorcycle was travelling north on Yamba Drive when it collided with another vehicle turning from Yamba Drive into Dookie Street, Farrer, this morning (November 16). Emergency services blocked the road following the […]
TWO faculties from the University of Canberra are providing support for drought-affected rural communities, with a caravan of researchers leaving tomorrow (Saturday, November 17) for the pilot of the “Creative Arts and Rural Health Initiative” […]
A NGUNNAWAL woman, 30, has allegedly used the internet to bring drugs to Canberra through the postal system. Police searched the woman’s home after a package was given to police earlier in the year, which […]
TRAFFIC was brought to a halt on Thursday (November 15) when a man suddenly stopped his ute on William Slim Drive, got out and struck a white Toyota Camry a number of times. It was […]
