Bom Funk celebrates a year of big wins
There’s some serious celebrating at Bom Funk Dance Studio, after a top-notch year of success at the 2024 Australasian Dance Education Awards, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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SAMARA PURNELL reviews the Emerging Choreographers Program, by QL2 Dance, saying: "The experience of adapting a studio practice to a theatre... gives these young artists the chance to expose their vulnerabilities and receive feedback."
"This delightful production was enjoyed by all ages, who came dressed in ballet-inspired outfits, ready to bask in nostalgia and introduce the next generation to the magic that is The Nutcracker" writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Liz Lea's A Stellar Lineup.
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Tale of a turtle engages children – and adults
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Bangarra Dance Theatre's performance of Waru – Journey of the Small Turtle.
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Youth Dance Festival allows dancers to dream
Celebrating its 40th anniversary with the theme of What do You Dream, Ausdance ACT is staging one of its biggest Youth Dance Festivals, featuring live dance made by secondary schools from all over Canberra and its immediate regions.
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Illume: Capturing light and Country through dance
The phenomenon of light is central to Bangarra's 2025 production, Illume, and marks the first collaboration between the troupe and an indigenous visual artist.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Elemental, the QL2 Dance Chaos Project 2024.
The Australian Ballet School's 60th gala performance draws on past and present students in a celebration of artistic growth and legacies turned new.
"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.
"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.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA talks to Joel Burke, the 23-year-old founder of the phenomenally successful Ballet International Gala.
"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.
