Dance on film can be problematic. Just ask a filmmaker. “Even when you watch the most admired dance films, they don’t have that same sense of visceral and kinaesthetic connection you get when you watch it in a live experience,” Melbourne based director Rhys Graham declares. “In a theatre, you can be 20 metres away […]

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Streaming on miff.com.au. 15 August 2021.  As part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, there was a special screening of short dance films called Bodies in Motion.  In The Prelude, presented by Phillip Adams BalletLab and US choreographer Walter Dundervill, there is a great concentration on texture — of drapes, of the bedding (cloth of gold that becomes tied […]

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Ella Havelka — dancer, Wiradjuri artist, choreographer and public speaker — is one of the most remarkable and grounded artists of her generation. Born in Dubbo, NSW, Havelka is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people and in 2013, became the first Indigenous dancer to be invited into The Australian Ballet in its 50 years of history. Each […]

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