• Glow

    RISING Festival: Glow

    Chunky Move Studios 111 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Beneath the glow of the video tracking system, a moving body mutates in and out of human form into unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states. A digital landscape morphs and unfolds in real time. The primal meets the pre-programmed in an ongoing battle for the solarised edges of the real.…
    A Year without Summer

    RISING Festival: A Year without Summer

    Arts Centre Melbourne - Playhouse
    A musical. A comedy. A Dettol-dabbed frolic through the rot. In 2023, acclaimed Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger raised the barre at RISING with TANZ—a show that hoisted ballet onto meat hooks to get a closer look at discipline and the body. Now Europe’s hottest director is back to pick at…
    Hard to be Soft : a Belfast Prayer

    RISING Festival: Hard to be Soft : a Belfast Prayer

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Over four episodes, her city’s seemingly intractable undercurrent of conflict manifests through meditative stillness and shocking power. Influenced by club culture and the European avant-garde, Doherty's dancers explode institutional discipline with intuitive swagger. Set in a gleaming cage—with driving music by DJ David Holmes (Killing Eve, Ocean’s Eleven, Hunger)—she takes us behind…
    Glow

    RISING Festival: Glow

    Chunky Move Studios 111 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Beneath the glow of the video tracking system, a moving body mutates in and out of human form into unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states. A digital landscape morphs and unfolds in real time. The primal meets the pre-programmed in an ongoing battle for the solarised edges of the real.…
    Hard to be Soft : a Belfast Prayer

    RISING Festival: Hard to be Soft : a Belfast Prayer

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Over four episodes, her city’s seemingly intractable undercurrent of conflict manifests through meditative stillness and shocking power. Influenced by club culture and the European avant-garde, Doherty's dancers explode institutional discipline with intuitive swagger. Set in a gleaming cage—with driving music by DJ David Holmes (Killing Eve, Ocean’s Eleven, Hunger)—she takes us behind…
  • Morning Melodies

    Arts Centre Melbourne: En Pointe

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Australian Ballet School’s annual performance continues to captivate Morning Melodies audiences with a breathtaking new program each year. Featuring the School’s talented full-time students, this vibrant mixed show celebrates the art of ballet, from uplifting contemporary pieces to beautiful classical works. Highlights of this year’s program include a new…
    Morning Melodies

    Arts Centre Melbourne: En Pointe

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Australian Ballet School’s annual performance continues to captivate Morning Melodies audiences with a breathtaking new program each year. Featuring the School’s talented full-time students, this vibrant mixed show celebrates the art of ballet, from uplifting contemporary pieces to beautiful classical works. Highlights of this year’s program include a new…
    Voyage Into Infinity

    RISING Festival: Voyage Into Infinity

    The Substation 1 Market Street, Newport, VIC, Australia
    A trio of dolls climb up from a rabbit hole. By the light of a candelabra, they explore a giant machine made of precariously placed ladders, planks and pylons. Then one burnt rope sends an old punching bag swinging... Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist who drives haunted carnival rides over tropes…
    Self Portrait Annalouise Paul

    Annalouise Paul Dance Theatre: Self Portrait Annalouise Paul

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the world of the dance studio, where movement, memory and identity intertwine. Self Portrait is a “live portrait” of award-winning dancer and choreographer Annalouise Paul, who shares stories of her Sephardi (Jewish Spanish) ancestry and invites the audience into the intimate space where her art and ancestry meet.…
    Sheltering

    Bangarra Dance Theatre: Sheltering

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Beneath the constellation of its creative and cultural legacy, Bangarra Dance Theatre, will present a program of three powerful works: 'Keeping Grounded', 'Brown Boys', and 'Sheoak', which honour Bangarra's past while looking to the future. 'Sheltering' will tour nationally from May to July 2026. An intergenerational thread connects this bold triple bill,…
    Self Portrait Annalouise Paul

    Annalouise Paul Dance Theatre: Self Portrait Annalouise Paul

    Bondi Pavilion Theatre Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the world of the dance studio, where movement, memory and identity intertwine. Self Portrait is a “live portrait” of award-winning dancer and choreographer Annalouise Paul, who shares stories of her Sephardi (Jewish Spanish) ancestry and invites the audience into the intimate space where her art and ancestry meet.…
    Voyage Into Infinity

    RISING Festival: Voyage Into Infinity

    The Substation 1 Market Street, Newport, VIC, Australia
    A trio of dolls climb up from a rabbit hole. By the light of a candelabra, they explore a giant machine made of precariously placed ladders, planks and pylons. Then one burnt rope sends an old punching bag swinging... Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist who drives haunted carnival rides over tropes…