Once in a Blue Moon

PYT Fairfield: Once in a Blue Moon

PYT Fairfield 19 Harris Street, Fairfield, NSW, Australia
Once in a Blue Moon is a three-part choreographic work created and performed by Tala Issaoui that moves through film, live performance, and ritual embodiment. A melancholic trilogy that drifts between worlds and art-forms of transformation and quiet unravelling, a mystic is guided to her final crossing beneath the glow…
Dance UR way out of Debt!

Sydney Fringe Festival: Dance UR way out of Debt!

Marrickville Town Hall 303 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
This innovative, interactive experience has a mission to deliver learning that helps you avoid or climb out of the hole of debt and win your own race in this... This innovative, interactive experience goes where no wealth workshop has gone before - it combines the science of movement with money…

Brisbane Powerhouse: Pasifika Made

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Pasifika Made is a bold expression of Pacific cultural and contemporary arts. Bringing together artists and communities from across the diaspora and the Moana in a vibrant program of arts, culture, and ceremony. Returning in 2025 as part of Brisbane Festival, Pasifika Made transforms the Brisbane Powerhouse into a living…
Preparing Ground

Brisbane Festival: Preparing Ground

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Preparing Ground is a powerful new language that dances the weight of history and the fire of resistance. It holds the warmth of family voices, quiet moments of care, and the heartache of displacement. Three women share the stage, their bodies carrying stories through cycles of resilience and reclamation. Projections…

Common People Dance Project: Common People Dance Eisteddfod

Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre 58 Stephens Rd, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
The Common People Dance Eisteddfod has become a revered tradition here in our fair city. Teams from across South East Queensland battle it out over one epic night and need you to cheer and shout as they dance the night away. Dressed in sequined armour, the mighty suburban gladiators will…
Bad Nature

Australasian Dance Collective: Bad Nature

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Brisbane Festival exclusive, Bad Nature, combines awe-inspiring movement, multisensory design, international collaboration, couture, and more to push the boundaries of perception. Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) and the Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni (CGR) bring together an international team of celebrated creatives, including multidisciplinary artists Boris Acket, Maison the Faux, and…
Once in a Blue Moon

PYT Fairfield: Once in a Blue Moon

PYT Fairfield 19 Harris Street, Fairfield, NSW, Australia
Once in a Blue Moon is a three-part choreographic work created and performed by Tala Issaoui that moves through film, live performance, and ritual embodiment. A melancholic trilogy that drifts between worlds and art-forms of transformation and quiet unravelling, a mystic is guided to her final crossing beneath the glow…
Illume

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Illume is the latest work by Wirangu and Mirning choreographer and Bangarra’s Artistic Director Frances Rings, created in collaboration with Darrell Sibosado, a Goolarrgon Bard artist from Lombadina on the Dampier Peninsula. Sibosado’s work is inspired by the light of the pearl shell and the cultural practice of rigi (pearl shell…
Illume

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Illume is the latest work by Wirangu and Mirning choreographer and Bangarra’s Artistic Director Frances Rings, created in collaboration with Darrell Sibosado, a Goolarrgon Bard artist from Lombadina on the Dampier Peninsula. Sibosado’s work is inspired by the light of the pearl shell and the cultural practice of rigi (pearl shell…
LIFE

SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre: LIFE

AANT Centre Darwin, NT, Australia
\Inspired by song lyrics that resonate with the cast, LIFE follows the lives of teenagers whose safe place is ‘where the music is’. Song lyrics are the barometer of a generation, they speak for broken hearts, moments of pure celebration and days where the whole world seems troubled and confused. Songs are the soundtrack…
Free Dance Workshops with Bring a Plate

Brisbane Festival: Free Dance Workshops with Bring a Plate

Hub Neighbourhood Centre Inala 79 Poinsettia St, Inala, QLD, Australia
Come and join these fun, celebratory, and inclusive dance classes. Bring A Plate is an inclusive dance company that has been consistently bringing people together, celebrating diversity, and creating safe spaces since 2017. Founded on the pillars of community, inclusion, play, agency, and place, Bring A Plate challenges Australian society’s…
Butterfly Effect

West Australian Ballet: Butterfly Effect

His Majesty's Theatre, Perth Perth, WA, Australia
Be among the first to witness this world premiere as choreographer Alice Topp returns to Perth with her modern reimagining of Madame Butterfly. This enduring tale of unrequited love and loss will stay with you long after the curtain closes.

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