From Belfast’s streets to the end of the world, Oona Doherty and Florentina Holzinger delivered some of the most arresting dance works in this year’s program.
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Through Sheltering, Bangarra Dance Theatre proves one of its greatest strengths is in nurturing talented new voices.
The Lyon Dance Biennale is Europe’s largest dance festival, bringing together dancers – and audiences – from across the world.
Germaine Acogny has risen as a female artist who has defied stereotypes to become one of the world’s most revered dance makers.
Have you ever wanted to go see some dance, but been unsure of where to start? These basics can open the door to enjoying the beauty and complexity of this physical art.
The Australian Ballet’s new double-bill Identity stages the work of Daniel Riley and Alice Topp in a reflection of the identity of Australian dance – and Australia.
Some offerings were political and academic, some were celebratory. Some told us personal or cultural stories, some had 100 dancers, some had one.
Embedding traditional dance stories and modern dance within Bangarra’s signature style, SandSong is a rich, evocative and powerful production.
A new film about Bangarra Dance Theatre carries the deep Indigenous knowledge and personal trauma behind its 30-year history.
Hofesh Shechter’s latest contemporary dance work is not the rousing narrative its title might suggest. Its dancers inhabit a global catastrophe and then a brutal new world order.
An artistic collaboration between India and Australia, playing as part of this year’s Perth Festival, stirs its audience to action on climate change.
Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ah tnravelled up and down her native land, videotaping older women dancing.
Dance can’t literally tell history, but it can tell historical truths, as shown by Akram Khan’s Xenos at the Adelaide Festival.
Bangarra’s current season of three new works, Ones Country, is uneven in parts but worth seeing for the diversity of Indigenous stories from some new choreographic voices.
Mette Ingvartsen’s 7 Pleasures aims to upend
clichés about nudity. But the ‘confrontational’ use of nudity in dance and performance art is itself now something of a cliche.
East London collective Boy Blue Entertainment have taken their provocative show to the Edinburgh International Festival.
… and does it work?
South Africa’s foremost contemporary dance festival is celebrating its 28th birthday in 2016. It has remained relevant, vital and – despite the format’s esoteric nature – hugely popular.
Lucy Guerin is a consistent creative and experimental point of contact for many young dancers and choreographers – and her new work, Motion Picture explores the grey area between nostalgia and modernity.
A retrospective of the work of American choreographer Trisha Brown (1936-) will be presented at the Melbourne Festival this month. In the performance Early Works, we will have a chance to revisit this…
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