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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Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne. 14 June 2024. It looks like a simple proposition. Two dancers, a plain set and an orb hung like a moon. In a single crisp diagonal of light, they move to textured electro. The classic contemporary dance scene. It could be anything, or maybe nothing; and therein lies its power. With such basic tools, whole worlds can be […]

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Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne.13 June 2024. It is a brave person who asks their audience to listen to one song over and over for an hour, whilst also confronting them with their own mortality. In this instance, Belgian artist Miet Warlop gambled and won. One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV is an adrenalised melange of […]

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Dystopia may well be the current nightmare of choice, but that has not stopped some of us dwelling on the notion of utopia. Indeed, people have long envisioned forms of paradise, some in the afterlife, others more Earthly. From the meditative to the murderous, we have concocted spiritual practices, political ideologies, and speculative fictions in […]

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How easy it is to be distracted by ugliness. The daily doomscroll clicks buttons in our brains that tempt us into declinist and dystopian thinking. Yet, turn our gaze from the lurid glare of news drama and viral fanaticism, and we may soon find room for beauty. Having recently spent time with Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton, it is apparent […]

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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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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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Stephanie Lake’s explosive Manifesto is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse from 25 – 28 October much to the delight of Melbourne audiences who may missed out on the hottest ticket in town back in 2022. “I am beyond thrilled that we have the chance to bring Manifesto back to our home city and onto the beautiful Playhouse stage. After an incredible […]

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The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) will present ECLIPSE from 10 – 18 June, at NICA National Circus Centre.  ECLIPSE is NICA’s first public-facing production since 2019. Twelve enduring and talented students have been pressurised by lockdowns into diamonds, ready to showcase a thrilling live performance filled with acrobatics, corde-lisse, trapeze, aerial hoop, tightwire, roue cyr, handstands, […]

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“I feel that people are more open to those experiences now, considering the pretty epic world events of late,” she says. “They want to have the world reflected back at them. They want to think. Be provocated. More than ever. There’s a certain degree of wanting some entertainment and escapism, but I feel that people […]

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