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 […]

The post DirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio 2024: Emerging voices appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

Need help figuring out what to make for dinner? Google “Red Shell Mgmt Kitchen Choreography” to find delicious recipes for main courses, salads, soups, desserts and cocktails – all from some of your favourite dancers!  No ordinary recipes — these recipes (and the personal stories connected to them) were collected from professionals in the world of […]

The post Kitchen Choreography: Delectable recipes by dance icons appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

There is much to enjoy in The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques for professionals and hobbyists alike. The guide, published by Crowood Press, focusses on the canon of contemporary dance techniques as established in the western traditions: Graham, Cunningham and Release. Author Melanie Clarke is a lecturer and program leader in dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and […]

The post New release: ‘The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques’ appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

Hunger. It’s something we all know, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. It drives us, sometimes to genius, sometimes to madness. No wonder artists are tempted.  However, American dancemaker Kimberly Bartosik is more interested in the nexus between hunger and ecstatic states, and how that maps out in communal rituals as diverse as charismatic religious services […]

The post Kimberly Bartosik’s ‘I hunger for you’: Ecstasy and (Dis)connection appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA)’s American Masters exhibition was shown at the gallery, running 24 August – 11 November 2018. Highlighted was the iconic, historically significant work of choreographer Merce Cunningham. Showcased in an extraordinary manner, a true treat for the senses, selected Cunningham repertoire was featured in the second and third weeks of the […]

The post NGA highlights the significant work of Merce Cunningham appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) is a thriving university arts conservatory in urban Perth, Western Australia. It’s well known for music theatre and dance streams, as well as having an extremely strong acting, and indigenous theatre stream and curriculum.  WAAPA is also a destination choice for many dancers, because of its Perth location. […]

The post The WAAPA experience: Nurturing the artist you want to be appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

Carriageworks, Sydney May 5, 2016. Sydney was privileged to have Carriageworks host the 2016 Keir Choreographic Awards. This year’s selection of finalists featured four strong, dynamic and challenging works displaying a range of styles. Ideas ranged from the history of dance to introspection and self-analysis, the environment and a futuristic sci-fi work, and four short, sharp works […]

The post Four finalists’ work at the 2016 Keir Choreographic Awards appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

“When I looked around the visual arts,” says art collector, publisher and dance lover Phillip Keir, “I saw that there were 160 awards in Australia each year, but I found that there wasn’t anything in the choreographic world.” As the co-founder (with Sarah Benjamin) of the Keir Foundation, the art collector in question was in a […]

The post Eyes on (much more than) the prize: Phillip Keir on Choreographic Award appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

PACT Theatre, Sydney. August 27, 2015. Two quite different, but in some ways complementary, works were presented as part of the Dancendents programme of events presented by PACT. Both solos were by female choreographers and they were each challenging and exploratory. First was Rhiannon Newton’s Assemblies for One Body. Newton, who was involved in PACT’s Freshly Squeezed season, informs […]

The post Dancendents double bill presented by PACT appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.

Shopfront Theatre, Carlton, Sydney. July 3, 2015. In its latest Out of the Studio program, Dirty Feet presented a most exciting double bill of challenging, cutting-edge contemporary dance. For both works there were no sets, just a few white panels at the back. However, this sparse blackbox production featured some terrific lighting effects and tremendous dancing. The opening […]

The post Dirty Feet in latest ‘Out Of The Studio’ appeared first on Dance Informa Magazine.