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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RISING, Melbourne’s premiere festival of new music, art and performance, has unleashed its sweeping 2024 program, featuring 105 events, more than 480 artists, 23 new commissions, six world premieres and eight Australian premieres, set to take the city as a stage as winter begins from June 1 – 16. Across 16 nights, spanning three epic […]

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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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Resilient. Self-confident. Creative. Compassionate. Many artists – many people – would like to think of themselves thus. It should therefore come as little surprise to find these qualities enshrined in the mission statement of one of the country’s pioneering performing arts high schools. Established in 1978, The Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS) started teaching […]

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From 24 November, the premiere of Monsters will see Malthouse Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Lutton collaborate with choreographer Stephanie Lake and Sydney-based writer Emme Hoy to create a chilling adventure into the darkness featuring stage and screen star Alison Whyte (Cloudstreet, The Bloody Chamber) and Stephanie Lake Company dancers. Over four brief adrenalin filled acts, Whyte portrays a […]

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Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.10 June 2022. Imagine if the H.M.S. Pinafore had been taken over by cult leaders or extremists, and G&S camp replaced with strictly modernist militancy. Now the chorus line is a cadre and the orchestra have ditched the strings for the crisp insistence of drums. The new manifesto is being played live.  Creator and choreographer […]

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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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It’s snowing and early morning in Berlin when I contact Anouk van Dijk, while in Sydney it’s evening in the midst of a heatwave. The contrast strikes me as appropriate for van Dijk, a choreographer who enjoys embracing extremes and dichotomy. In Berlin, van Dijk is working on an original piece, Distant Matter, with the […]

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Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.  16 March 2017.  Is there anything more narcissistic than an artist? How about an artist/philosopher? A really smart, self-aware, irreverent and brilliantly funny one at that; one who turns her own navel gazing inside out and splatters the contents of reflection and refraction all over herself, her practise and the audience. There […]

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Dance Massive, a contemporary dance program in Melbourne that showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming choreographers, has just announced its line-up for its 2017 event, to be held 14-26 March 2017. In the fifth installment of Dance Massive, 12 of the 20 productions are world premieres, to be presented at venues including Arts […]

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