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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Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet, the sight of three dancers writhing around in a pool of red juice is less erotic than you might think. That said, Chou Kuan Jou’s saucy three hander, Tomato, is far from prim. […]

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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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Melbourne Fringe Festival continues to champion First Nations artists through its curated Deadly Fringe program. Deadly Fringe is committed to showcasing pioneering and thought-provoking artworks, and reinforcing First Nations voices and perspectives on stage. Some of the highlights in the Deadly Fringe program include: Na Djinang Circus, in collaboration with Circa Cairns, presents the world premiere of In Place, a contemporary […]

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For the first time, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is the home of circus for Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023, with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, the State Government of Victoria, Melbourne Fringe and the City of Stonnington. NICA will support independent artists and small to medium companies to present works within NICA’s renowned venue, […]

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Scimm. Dance Company is thrilled to announce its groundbreaking performance, Mechorstra, is set to captivate audiences at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival. This innovative and visually stunning production delves into the dynamic relationship between movement and music. Dancers skillfully emulate an orchestra unravelling into a rock band by infusing primal energy and an electrifying state […]

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Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.17 November 2020. Firstly, what jumps out is the control both Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson exhibit. This is not to say that Drishti is an exercise in technical rigour or pure virtuosity but, rather, that the precise articulations of Indian classical dance, and their connection to centuries old spiritual/cultural practises, sit […]

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Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.13 November 2020. There is an unsettling disjuncture at the digital heart of Jonathan Homsey’s I Am Maggie, presented as part of Take Over! 2020. It is the fissure of the intimate and the abstracted. In a way, it is the frame itself (the rectangle of the screen, the atomised audience), but at […]

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Arts Centre, Melbourne.20 September 2019. There is something altogether appropriate about ending in front of the television. On the day when Global Climate Strike events began here in Australia, a show about how societies and individuals grapple with ways to respond to the existential issues posed by planetary warming (and are, in turn, often paralysed […]

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Tucked away in an office at an inner urban tertiary campus in Sydney sits a woman with a 50-year track record in dance. She’s represented Australia at three world championships, choreographed routines for Olympic opening ceremonies, worked on films like Strictly Ballroom, and in 2017, she made the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to dance […]

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