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. 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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Merrigong Theatre Company will present Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 29 to 31 August. Throbbing with sadness, anger, joy and resistance, Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] is a powerful and provocative new dance, sound and installation work that interrogates Australia’s capacity to lock away and isolate that which we fear. […]

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Brisbane Festival weaves a rich tapestry of culture, celebration and community throughout the city when the leading arts and cultural event returns from 30 August to 21 September.       The fifth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina invites audiences to experience the pinnacle of artistry with world premieres, Australian exclusives, Queensland commissions and Brisbane spotlights taking centre stage across 23 […]

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Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne.13 June 2024. It is a brave person who asks their audience to listen to one song over and over for an hour, whilst also confronting them with their own mortality. In this instance, Belgian artist Miet Warlop gambled and won. One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV is an adrenalised melange of […]

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Immigration Museum, Melbourne.5 June 2024. The thing about beauty is that it can sometimes be a tyrant, much as desire and suffering are so often in cahoots. Antony Hamilton’s new work for Chunky Move, You, Beauty, hovers near the intersect. Like a yin/yang pas de deux, it crushes the sinister and the romantic together, compacts […]

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Dystopia may well be the current nightmare of choice, but that has not stopped some of us dwelling on the notion of utopia. Indeed, people have long envisioned forms of paradise, some in the afterlife, others more Earthly. From the meditative to the murderous, we have concocted spiritual practices, political ideologies, and speculative fictions in […]

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There is increasing interest for delivery of different modes of engagement in arts for children and families, but also for older adults. Whilst there is a plethora of options for young people to participate in high quality dance programs, there remain limited options for older adults. The benefits of dance for physical strength, mobility, and mental […]

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Arts House, Melbourne.20 February 2024. Question. What makes a cuddle a cuddle, as opposed to something more amorous? Answer. Context. As dance fans, we are used to seeing the same moves. The way the human body articulates (whether in sport, art or combat) tends to evince an underlying lexicon of motion and balance. Knowing this, […]

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Auckland’s annual celebration of the arts returns to the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau this summer as Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival springs back to life from 7 to 24 March 2024. More than 60 events comprising over 200 individual, unforgettable experiences take place across the Auckland region. The programme travels the world […]

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