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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Australasian Dance Collective (ADC)’s THREE returns in 2024 with a new triple bill showcasing three bold choreographic voices in a nexus of sound and performance. THREE will be presented as part of Brisbane Powerhouse’s OHM Festival from 20 to 23 March. This year’s instalment of THREE features world premieres from award-winning choreographer Jenni Large and […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.23 February 2024. It begins slowly, with dancers’ bodies cloaked, obscured. The score hovers, the white stage bordering on sterile. But then it happens. From crisp abstraction emerges an extraordinary fluidity, an organic engine. Fragile, inexact, yet exhilarating. The flesh vessel we all know, navigating space and time with tenacious beauty. This is why […]

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To say 2023 was a successful year for Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) is an understatement. Led by Artistic Director Amy Hollingsworth, the company has pushed artistic boundaries by transforming spaces with interdisciplinary works, embracing and incorporating immersive technology, broadening creative voices, and expanding the stage for all to enjoy and experience dance for all that […]

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4/4. It sounds like the simplest tempo. But what if there was a deeper dive?  From his early days in the street scene to his present role as the Artistic Director of the Melbourne based contemporary dance powerhouse Chunky Move, Antony Hamilton has spent decades teasing apart the inner mechanics of choreography. With his latest full length work, 4/4, he is seeking […]

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FRAME: A biennial of dance, is a new festival from the dance communities in Melbourne and Victoria including arts organisations, companies and independent artists. The inaugural FRAME will run from March 1-31, 2023, with the full program to be announced early February featuring works presented by Arts House, Bunjil Place, Centre for Projection Art, Chunky […]

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Ian McDougall, Chair of leading Australian dance company Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI), has announced that Chloe Munro AO, the former LGI Chair who passed away in June 2021, has made a bequest of two million dollars – the largest ever for Australian contemporary dance – to the company, with specific obligations to its usage. LGI […]

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The theatre darkens and the lights come up on a performance that is completely unknown – for not just the audience but the dancers, too. Welcome to Forgery, where a complex series of algorithms and cutting-edge technology dictate each performance – a show that’s directed entirely by computer and is different every single performance. Developed by award-winning Australian dancer, […]

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Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.26 May 2021. If ever we are tempted to think of art as existing in a pristine space – neatly framed and packaged – the opening of Dancenorth’s RED at Melbourne’s freshly minted RISING Festival served to remind us that art always lives in context. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a more loaded moment […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne. 17 March 2019. Sometimes, despite our impatience for spectacle and gratification, we are made to wait. Such is the case with Alison Currie’s Concrete Impermanence, a work that slowly reveals its full weight. If it begins with the kind of abstraction we are used to in contemporary dance, it concludes with a poignant […]

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