Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet, the sight of three dancers writhing around in a pool of red juice is less erotic than you might think. That said, Chou Kuan Jou’s saucy three hander, Tomato, is far from prim. […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.23 February 2024. It begins slowly, with dancers’ bodies cloaked, obscured. The score hovers, the white stage bordering on sterile. But then it happens. From crisp abstraction emerges an extraordinary fluidity, an organic engine. Fragile, inexact, yet exhilarating. The flesh vessel we all know, navigating space and time with tenacious beauty. This is why […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.16 November 2023. The notion of a seven-hour durational performance may be anathema to some. Yet, as the writer Ida Marie Hede observes in the piece that MASS–bloom explorations is drawn from, there is a time and a place for such ‘wild and lazy variant[s] of progress.’ Thus, in a black box, on a […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.5 October 2023. “Why can’t the art speak for itself?” she asks, in a tone more accusative than enquiring. The short answer here is that it does; and, if left alone to do so, Touch would be an elegant and beautiful evocation of a simple and powerful idea. Alas, it is not quite so. […]

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Brand X, Sydney. 27 January 2023. Tra Mi Dinh brought her newest work, (Up) Holding, to the Brand X stage, and this latest instalment in her body of work, in what is emerging as the Dinh signature, brings a provocative piece that surprises, delights and challenges. Dinh has that unique ability to take a broad subject matter and flesh it out in layers that […]

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FRAME: A biennial of dance, is a new festival from the dance communities in Melbourne and Victoria including arts organisations, companies and independent artists. The inaugural FRAME will run from March 1-31, 2023, with the full program to be announced early February featuring works presented by Arts House, Bunjil Place, Centre for Projection Art, Chunky […]

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Dancer and choreographer Erin O’Rourke from Melbourne has been named as the winner of the 2022 Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) award. Aged 23 years old, the young artist has been creating work for the past five years. O’Rourke is thrilled to have this unique platform to propel her career forward.  The Australian Ballet and Telstra are […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne. 31 August 2022.   There are nights when you think, I’ve seen all this before. This type of body, moving in this fashion, to this kind of soundscape. But you wait…and sure enough it emerges. For the record, I love it when dance does this — indirectly revealing its story and, in turn, illuminating yours. With Amelia Jean O’Leary’s solo, Yinarr, it took a few minutes, but when the pattern became clear, the inner language became readable, and the work drew me in. Now, […]

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