A quarter of a century after being established, Chunky Move, Australia’s acclaimed contemporary dance company, celebrates its storied history with a new...
Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company Chunky Move, in partnership with the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, has opened applications for its new Choreographer In...
What if the virus is a blessing? An invitation? A crack that widens to allow a new way of being and making...
The Beyond The Studio Fellowship (valued at $50,000 including in-kind support) was set up to support a choreographer, dancer, producer, composer or...
The day-to-day throughout COVID-19 can be challenging. Being isolated and thrown many uncertainties about the future — whilst simultaneously having to manage classes online and...
Meat Market, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne.16 October 2019. Attending Token Armies is like being invited by a radical friend who is clued-in to...
When Chunky Move, Melbourne’s premiere independent dance company, announced the appointment of Antony Hamilton as artistic director and co-CEO with Kristy Ayre,...
Create or Die, Marrickville.20 September 2019. After a sold out taster earlier this year, Sydney-based community arts group Twisted Element premiered its...
This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival has already made news. Not only is it Jonathan Holloway’s final year as Artistic Director, but...
Sydney Dance Company (SDC) stalwart Charmene Yap will be finishing her performing career at the end of SDC’s Season 1 tour of Bonachela/Nankivel/Lane....
Last month, we asked, “Is ballet future proof?” This month, we dig deeper, and ponder what comes next for an artform sandwiched...
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! The New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) audition registrations for full-time training...
It seems strange to be writing an article about contemporary dancers and choreographers carrying a legacy from the pioneers of the artform...
Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) performs the second leg of its...
Every festival is a mixed bag. Hits, misses, stuff we just forget. Yet for anyone wishing to reduce an event as hectic...
It’s snowing and early morning in Berlin when I contact Anouk van Dijk, while in Sydney it’s evening in the midst of...
Just a couple months in, 2019 has already proven to be a busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dance...
Yellow Wheel, established in Melbourne, in 2012, is an Australian pre-professional contemporary dance company specialising in working with young people and emerging...
At some point, most of us find ourselves yearning to be part of something bigger. This desire frequently manifests in either the...
Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With...
After seven years at the helm of Chunky Move, Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk has announced her decision to step down. Chunky...
In this second instalment of our Choreography Advice Series (you can find our first interview with Sydney Dance Company’s Rafael Bonachela here),...