• Garrigarrang Badu

    FORM Dance Projects: Garrigarrang Badu

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Jannawi means “with me, with you” in Dharug language – a statement of welcome and solidarity. For over a decade, the all-female Jannawi Dance Clan have woven traditional and contemporary dance to ensure Dharug songlines thrive. Their most ambitious work yet, Garrigarrang Badu, is created and choreographed by artistic director…
    Post-Orientalist Express

    Sydney Festival: Post-Orientalist Express

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    After acclaimed seasons in Paris, Berlin and Seoul, celebrated South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn brings her kaleidoscopic reimagining of Asian cultures to Sydney Festival. Known internationally as the enfant terrible of Seoul, Ahn draws on traditions from Okinawa, Bali and Manila, transforming them into exhilarating new dance languages that both…
    Garabari

    Joel Bray Dance: Garabari

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into the dance Garabari, Wiradjuri for Corroboree. Acclaimed choreographer Joel Bray transforms the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House into a massive open-air dance floor, inviting everyone, families, friends, the curious and the bold, to move together under the stars. Created with Wiradjuri Elders and community in Wagga…
    Garrigarrang Badu

    FORM Dance Projects: Garrigarrang Badu

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Jannawi means “with me, with you” in Dharug language – a statement of welcome and solidarity. For over a decade, the all-female Jannawi Dance Clan have woven traditional and contemporary dance to ensure Dharug songlines thrive. Their most ambitious work yet, Garrigarrang Badu, is created and choreographed by artistic director…
    Live on Hickson Road – Efectos Especiales

    Sydney Festival: Live on Hickson Road – Efectos Especiales

    Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, between Towns Place and Pottinger Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A street. Action! The scene begins: a truck rumbles by, music blaring. A dancer sprints, leaps, stumbles – and suddenly, rain and fireworks erupt around them. Each take brings a new protagonist, a new rhythm, a new spark of cinematic magic. What’s real? What’s staged? In this heady blur of…
    Garrigarrang Badu

    FORM Dance Projects: Garrigarrang Badu

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Jannawi means “with me, with you” in Dharug language – a statement of welcome and solidarity. For over a decade, the all-female Jannawi Dance Clan have woven traditional and contemporary dance to ensure Dharug songlines thrive. Their most ambitious work yet, Garrigarrang Badu, is created and choreographed by artistic director…
    Live on Hickson Road – Efectos Especiales

    Sydney Festival: Live on Hickson Road – Efectos Especiales

    Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, between Towns Place and Pottinger Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A street. Action! The scene begins: a truck rumbles by, music blaring. A dancer sprints, leaps, stumbles – and suddenly, rain and fireworks erupt around them. Each take brings a new protagonist, a new rhythm, a new spark of cinematic magic. What’s real? What’s staged? In this heady blur of…
    Garabari

    Joel Bray Dance: Garabari

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into the dance Garabari, Wiradjuri for Corroboree. Acclaimed choreographer Joel Bray transforms the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House into a massive open-air dance floor, inviting everyone, families, friends, the curious and the bold, to move together under the stars. Created with Wiradjuri Elders and community in Wagga…
    Save the Last Dance for Me

    Sydney Festival: Save the Last Dance for Me

    Palm Grove Forecourt Darling Harbour, NSW, Australia
    Knees bent low. Arms locked tight. Two bodies spinning faster, faster, faster. This is the polka chinata, a breathtaking dance ritual almost lost to history. Dating back to the early 1900s, it was once a courtship display performed only by men at a time when strict rules forbade unmarried men…
    EXXY

    Dan Daw Creative Projects: EXXY

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Making a return to Sydney Festival for the first time since 2018’s powerful Beast, Dan Daw takes us back to where it all began: a working-class Aussie childhood and the start of his long journey towards becoming an internationally celebrated, proudly queer and disabled dance artist. With raw honesty and…
    EXXY

    Dan Daw Creative Projects: EXXY

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Making a return to Sydney Festival for the first time since 2018’s powerful Beast, Dan Daw takes us back to where it all began: a working-class Aussie childhood and the start of his long journey towards becoming an internationally celebrated, proudly queer and disabled dance artist. With raw honesty and…
    Save the Last Dance for Me

    Sydney Festival: Save the Last Dance for Me

    Sydney Town Hall 483 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Knees bent low. Arms locked tight. Two bodies spinning faster, faster, faster. This is the polka chinata, a breathtaking dance ritual almost lost to history. Dating back to the early 1900s, it was once a courtship display performed only by men at a time when strict rules forbade unmarried men…