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All posts tagged "online dance reviews"
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘Star Spangled Banter’: A delightfully discomforting space
Dancehouse/Melbourne Fringe.14 October 2021. If called upon to boil it down to a single word, it would be…post. Post-dance, post-theatre, post-modern…post pretty...
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1.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Bauhaus’ and ‘Out of the Blue’ at Sydney Fringe
Sydney Fringe 2021.Presented online. I managed to catch two events as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival which were also part of the...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance (Lens) highlights dance films from Australia and internationally
Dancehouse, Melbourne. August 2021. Dance (Lens) is a most exciting festival of screen dance organised by Dancehouse in Melbourne. Thirty-three short works are...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsJamestown Collective explores cultures with ‘INFUSION, No Movement’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.5 June 2021. Jamestown Collective brings to the Sydney Opera House its collaborative work, INFUSION, No Movement, No Sound. Headed...
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2.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Little Prince’: A timeless, other-worldly journey
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 27 May 2021. Direct from Paris, The Little Prince has finally made it to Australian Shores after a cancelled 2020 mid-COVID season, and it...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsFORM Dance Projects’ ‘NARCIFIXION’: Identity in the digital age
Riverside Theatres, Sydney.13 May 2021. Choreographed and performed by two major Independent dance artists, Anton (Legs On The Wall, Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance...
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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Sky Blue Mythic’: Exploring our dystopian future
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 May 2021. Sky Blue Mythic is an exploration into the human future using contemporary dance’s familiar tropes of careful...
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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsDancenorth’s ‘RED’: Art lives in context
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.26 May 2021. If ever we are tempted to think of art as existing in a pristine space – neatly...
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2.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet is back with new director and ‘New York Dialects’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 April 2021. The Australian Ballet is back in Sydney, after a long break due to COVID, and the...
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2.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Fangirls’: Teenage spirit and the purpose of music
Playhouse Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne.29 April 2021. Following successful seasons in Queensland and Sydney, Yve Blake’s Fangirls arrives in Melbourne. Directed by Paige...
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4.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsSparkles and smiles with the premiere of ’The Wedding Singer’
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. 1 May 2021. For two hours and 20 minutes, you pack up your troubles in your old ‘80s gym bag...
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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsIn this unsettling world: Deanne Butterworth’s ‘Slow Calm Drama’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsCirca’s ‘Shaun the Sheep’: Forget the TV, get to the circus
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 14 April 2021. Brisbane’s Circa is back with a show for preschool and primary kids. Director Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble have crafted a contemporary...
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1.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Foul of the Air’: Not so easily forgotten
The Landlord, Summer Hill, Sydney. 31 March 2021. The Foul of the Air by The Living Room Theatre and directed by Michelle St Anne, as...
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1.8KAustralian Dance Reviews‘La Traviata’: Verdi’s opera outdoors on Sydney Harbour
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. 26 March 2021. It was a week of torrential rain and flooding, but on opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, the clouds cleared to...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe mysterious ‘Sounds Of Digital’ at March Dance
Online, as part of March Dance.17 March 2021. Sounds Of Digital is a striking interactive event, part film, part workshop developed by Adrina...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsMarch Dance gives it up for hip hop in Happy Hour ‘Street Elite’
13 March 2021. ReadyMade Works, Sydney. The second week of March Dance, Sydney’s festival of independent dance, marked the first time that hip...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsQuestions of existence: Australian Dance Theatre’s ‘Supernature’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.12 March 2021. The eery, shadowed stage filled with fog and imposing cocoon like sculptures overhead. We eagerly awaited...
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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown
7 – 9 March 2021. Online, as part of March Dance. A Small Spectacle is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown...
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1.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsTransported at Adelaide Festival: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Impermanence’
Festival Theatre, Adelaide.10 March 2021. I’m not sure we all need a reminder of how impermanent our comfortable lives are after the...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsFear of loneliness and solitude: ‘Oh Boy!’ at March Dance
Dance Cinema online screening.1 March 2021. As part of March Dance, we are privileged to see Oh Boy! by Hadi Moussally. It is...
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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsDefying gravity at Adelaide Festival: Gravity & Other Myths’s ‘The Pulse’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.26 February 2021. In a time of limited crowds and social distancing, The Pulse felt liberated and effervescent. Sixty performers all...
