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…

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…

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…

Hot off their show-stopping success Katma last year, composer Jack Prest and dancer Azzam Mohamed return with Echo Mapping - a new sound-movement duet exploring their shared passion for the cathartic power of music embodied. In these critically acclaimed performances, Jack Prest’s live score moves from transcendent textures to thundering…

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…

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…

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…

Hot off their show-stopping success Katma last year, composer Jack Prest and dancer Azzam Mohamed return with Echo Mapping - a new sound-movement duet exploring their shared passion for the cathartic power of music embodied. In these critically acclaimed performances, Jack Prest’s live score moves from transcendent textures to thundering…

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…

Hot off their show-stopping success Katma last year, composer Jack Prest and dancer Azzam Mohamed return with Echo Mapping - a new sound-movement duet exploring their shared passion for the cathartic power of music embodied. In these critically acclaimed performances, Jack Prest’s live score moves from transcendent textures to thundering…