• Editor's Choice Illume

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, 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…
    BLKDOG

    RISING Festival: BLKDOG

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Vital hip-hop dance theatre that asks, how can we fight through vice to find peace? BLKDOG is dance as raw autobiography. Visionary British choreographer Botis Seva opens his life up for a kind of hip-hop exorcism—a storm of limbs, precise and unruly solos. A heaving fight through the smog of…

    Dark Mofo: VOID

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    In darkness, a genderless deity unfurls, birthing a speculative creation myth through dance, sound and ancient queer mythology.
    Editor's Choice Illume

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, 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…
    BLKDOG

    RISING Festival: BLKDOG

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Vital hip-hop dance theatre that asks, how can we fight through vice to find peace? BLKDOG is dance as raw autobiography. Visionary British choreographer Botis Seva opens his life up for a kind of hip-hop exorcism—a storm of limbs, precise and unruly solos. A heaving fight through the smog of…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Marrow

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Australian Dance Theatre’s Marrow is a muscular dance work set on shared ground, where politics and identity are not our totality. A choreographic course correction for a nation searching for a new direction. Presented as part of Blakout, Marrow is a muscular dance work set on shared ground, where politics…
    Editor's Choice Illume

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, 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…
    BLKDOG

    RISING Festival: BLKDOG

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Vital hip-hop dance theatre that asks, how can we fight through vice to find peace? BLKDOG is dance as raw autobiography. Visionary British choreographer Botis Seva opens his life up for a kind of hip-hop exorcism—a storm of limbs, precise and unruly solos. A heaving fight through the smog of…
    Editor's Choice Illume

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Illume

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, 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…
    BLKDOG

    RISING Festival: BLKDOG

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Vital hip-hop dance theatre that asks, how can we fight through vice to find peace? BLKDOG is dance as raw autobiography. Visionary British choreographer Botis Seva opens his life up for a kind of hip-hop exorcism—a storm of limbs, precise and unruly solos. A heaving fight through the smog of…

    The Princess Theatre: Out of the Mist

    Princess Theatre, Launceston (Theatre North) 55/57 Brisbane Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    A celebration of spectacular contemporary & traditional Scottish/Celtic music and dance. Out of the Mist... For one night only be mesmerised by a spectacular Celtic celebration of enchantments, myths, traditions and legends of the mystical isles and highlands through dance, music and song from ancient to modern times. The show…
    Last and First Men – Neon Dance

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Last and First Men – Neon Dance

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A UK dance work set against the surreal and sumptuous sci-fi visuals of the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. Based on the ground-breaking 1930 novel by Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men was the directorial swansong from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. This dance performance unfurls against the backdrop of his film—an arresting,…

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