Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.29 August 2024. New Zealand/Aotearoa’s Fresh Movement Collective (FMC) brought its poignant, poetic and explosive dance theatre show MĀUI to the Sydney Opera House this August. A company of 30 performers from a variety of Pacific island nation backgrounds, told their collective origin story in the folklore narrative of the […]

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Young dance makers are merging traditional and contemporary forms at Sydney Opera House in August. Fresh Movement collective is presenting an epic retelling of the beloved myths of Māui through contemporary, hip hop and cultural dance. Māui is a central mythological figure in the origin stories of the Pacific Islands. “Our background is in hip […]

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Want to create a fun musical theatre or Broadway themed performance? Here are some fun and inspiring concert and recital ideas. The Lion King: African Rhythms Bring the savanna to life with African dance, contemporary and ballet inspired by The Lion King. Animal themed costuming can add to the fun. Hamilton: A revolution Celebrate the […]

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Arts House, Melbourne.20 February 2024. Question. What makes a cuddle a cuddle, as opposed to something more amorous? Answer. Context. As dance fans, we are used to seeing the same moves. The way the human body articulates (whether in sport, art or combat) tends to evince an underlying lexicon of motion and balance. Knowing this, […]

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The Joffrey Ballet School (JBS), New York will return to Australia this April with its popular masterclass audition series at Energetiks VDF24. Offering more dance styles than ever before and new scholarships for its summer training intensives, the school continues to seek out talented Australian dancers at the popular Victorian Dance Festival. Representing the school […]

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Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 October 2023. Message In A Bottle comes to the Sydney Opera House, as a part of the SOH 50th year celebration.  Message In A Bottle is the latest offering from ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, and is produced by Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK, along with Birmingham […]

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Lizzie Gough is working as assistant choreographer to Kate Prince on Message In a Bottle, coming to the Sydney Opera House this October. “What draws me to the style of dance theatre is the storytelling,” says Gough. “That’s the wonderful thing Kate brings to the work.” ZooNation – The Kate Prince Company, creates dance theatre […]

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Red Bull BC One All-Star B-Boy Lee will head to Australia to judge the Red Bull BC One Cypher Australia on Sunday 10 September at Metro Theatre in Sydney/Eora. Part of one of the most competitive breaking crews in the world, The Ruggeds, B-Boy Lee is a breaking phenomenon from the Netherlands taking the dance world by storm […]

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Red Bull Dance Your Style returns to Australia in 2023, celebrating and crowning the nation’s best street dance talent through a series of crowd-voted, improvised dance battles. Red Bull Dance Your Style is a mixed, all-style one-on-one battle, inviting dancers from different street disciplines to enter. Red Bull Dance Your Style has announced four state qualifying […]

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Sydney Opera House, Sydney.18 August 2022. Sydney-based B-Boy dance producer and choreographer Nick Power continues his love affair with hip Hop’s dance roots. In Deejay x Dancer, Powers strips hip hop dance of its showbiz and hi tech frills and pays homage to where it all began in the Bronx block parties with just a DJ […]

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