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When The Australian Ballet stages Stephen Baynes's traditional Swan Lake in Sydney from April 1 for 21 performances it will field six couples in the leading roles of Odette-Odile and Siegfri…
Seymour Centre, Sydney, March 16. CAN a robot dance? It can move, of course, doing whatever its programmer has decided upon and is able to achieve technically, but is that movement dancing? …
Old Fitzroy Theatre, March 15 "A SHORT show's a good show," critics carol to one another, pleased to discover that what we're about to see will all be over in 60 minutes, 70 minutes, 80 or p…
The Australian Ballet, State Theatre, Melbourne, March 11. VITESSE presents three certified hits from three of the biggest names in contemporary ballet and turns the dial up as the evening p…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Adelaide Festival, March 9. Peter Pabst's set for Nelken is one of the most beautiful created for any theatrical event. A dense field of thousands of silk …
CounterMove. Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney, February 29. LUX Tenebris " Light in Darkness – is the name of Rafael Bonachela's new work but it could well have been chosen to d…
Auckland Arts Festival, March 2. Francesco Ventriglia was named artistic director of Royal New Zealand Ballet back in September 2014 but hasn't been able to put his stamp on programming unti…
Perth International Arts Festival, February 25. "In the beginning was the Word," begins the Gospel according to St John, "and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." But whose god prev…
Luckiest Productions & Tinderbox Productions. Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, February 23. RESISTANCE is useless Earthlings. Little Shop of Horrors is back and roaring for warm blood. Human bl…
Dance Dialogues, Brisbane, February 20. Classical ballet is the oddest thing. It has a tiny core repertoire " fewer than 20 works; perhaps less than 15 if you're being very strict " that def…
Perth International Arts Festival, February 11. Mostly when we see Kathak dance it is in the exhilarating contemporary form created by Akram Khan. Khan, who is of Bangladeshi heritage but bo…
Victoria Hall, Fremantle, February 12 It would be so easy, one imagines, for Claire Cunningham's Guide Gods to be bristling with anger and reproach as it considers how religion deals with di…
Five by Night, West Australian Ballet, Perth, February 10 The Quarry Amphitheatre is one of the loveliest performing arts venues in the world. The former limestone quarry is situated in bush…
Stephanie Lake Company, Carriageworks, January 19. Melbourne, February 15-20; Brisbane, February 22. Stephanie Lake has danced with most of Australia's best contemporary dance-makers and …
Sydney Festival, January 8. The Hans Christian Andersen tale on which Meow Meow has based her new show is typically gruesome: an innocent young creature gladly endures unspeakable agonies in…
AT the Sydney Theatre Awards no one need ever fear a journalist asking them "who are you wearing" or indeed have any need of a stylist. There is no red carpet at the Paddington RSL, there ar…
In 2011 the Brisbane Festival program included the celebrated Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B with Out of Context " for Pina, a tribute to the towering choreographer who died in 2009. …
Sydney Opera House, January 9. In 1999 Jack Anderson reviewed Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich for The New York Times, reporting that Flemish choreographer Anne Teresa De Kee…
THE last crumbs of Christmas cake have scarcely been brushed from the lips, the last Champagne bottles are not yet in the recycling bin and New Year's resolutions are still full of shiny pot…
One person's best is another person's "I can't believe we saw the same show". Which if course we never do or can. We each bring to the theatre our history, our personality, our experiences, …
We'll get to the year's most interesting work and dancers shortly but 2015 was also notable for offstage developments, particularly at Australia's three leading classical companies, The Aust…
Capitol Theatre, Sydney, December 17. A new production of Fiddler on the Roof has just opened in New York, directed by Broadway revival rainmaker Bartlett Sher. The musical, created in 1964,…
Revelations in New York, stars made at The Australian Ballet, Alina Cojocaru in Brisbane and more … The Australian Ballet dubbed its 2015 season A Year of Beauty. Giselle, Swan Lake, Cinde…
Serendib, also spelled Serendip, Arabic SarandÄ«b, name for the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The name, Arabic in origin, was recorded in use at least as early as AD 361 and for a ti…
Carriageworks, Sydney, December 9. SOMETIMES it's about getting experience, sometimes it's about getting the kind of exposure that can really pay dividends. Sydney Dance Company's New Breed …
