Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program, with 2024 bringing audiences a triple bill program, once again presenting, and supporting, emerging artists. All artists featured shared new diverse works that displayed each of their unique voices and backgrounds. Performances were […]

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Guild Theatre, Melbourne.9 October 2024. We know that everything is ephemeral, even though we mostly reside in the delusion of permanence. In the world of art, we treasure both. Paintings, statues, etcetera at one end, live performance at the other. We have museums and plinths for the former, but for the latter – smartphones notwithstanding […]

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Guild Theatre, Melbourne. 2 October 2024. The arcs of narrative and the more figurative trajectories of dance can make for troublesome geometry; not least because dancers are rarely great actors. It requires a deft manipulation to bend them into shape. Molly achieves this sleight of hand, and then some. It begins jarringly, with stilted caricature voices, phrases cut […]

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On October 26, a dancer will take to a stage in Brisbane for an intimate showcase. She will be wearing an ivory coloured costume. Her movements will be slow, yet precisely measured. As she dances, she will explain. “I need to get out and do this, before I can’t,” she tells Dance Informa; because Bindu […]

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After a significant career as a principal dancer with The Australian Ballet and Dutch National Ballet, presenting in other mediums such as sculpture, painting and jewellery, Australian Remi Wörtmeyer has commenced as Artistic Director at BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. “It’s been a whirlwind, mainly it’s been about meeting the heads of department, and also the arts […]

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Chunky Move’s award-winning dance work 4/4 will return to Naarm/Melbourne this November, for three highly-anticipated performances presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC) at the Union Theatre. This limited run gives hometown audiences a final chance to experience the enthralling work before Chunky Move premieres 4/4 in the UK and Europe, kicking off the six city tour […]

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As part of its Fringe Focus Taiwan partnership, Melbourne Fringe is bringing two contemporary dance pieces to the stage from leading choreographers SU Pin-Wen and Chou Kuan-Jou. Girl’s Notes (11 – 12 October at Melbourne Recital Centre – Primrose Potter Salon) Traversing the boundaries of contemporary dance and gender to ask – how should women […]

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Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2024. Sydney Dance Company presented its second Sydney season for 2024 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre this month with Twofold, a double bill of old and new in Rafael Bonachela’s 2021 work Impermanence making a reappearance, and the world premiere of Melbourne based choreographer Melanie Lane’s Love Lock. Having opened […]

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Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne.28 August 2024. There was something in the air on opening night of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Horizon, the company’s first international collaboration featuring Australian and New Zealand stories. From the excited chatter in the theatre foyer to the audience cheers following a very special Welcome To Country, by the time the […]

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Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Sydney.15 August 2024. Gold is a new classical ballet work, created by Simonne Smiles, who both produced and choreographed the work. Smiles originally created an excerpt for the ballet back in 2019, and has since weathered the Covid pandemic to bring about a more full-length version of the work, in the form […]

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