As the end of the year approaches, the Limelight team and our critics have already looked back on their classical music, opera, theatre and musical theatre highlights. We finish our 2018 round-up with a look at some of the dance highlights. As usual it was a tight decision with much to choose from but these are the productions we picked.

Jo Litson – Editor

Sydney Dance Company in Antony Hamilton’s Forever & Ever. Photograph © Pedro Greig

Forever & Ever, Sydney Dance Company

Sydney Dance Company took audiences on a wild ride in October when it paired two wildly different works – Antony Hamilton’s brand new Forever & Ever with its quasi-robotic, almost mechanistic movement, and Rafael Bonachela’s Frame of Mind from 2015 with its more lyrical contemporary choreography. The phenomenal dancers moved from one to the other with astonishing ease. Hamilton’s witty, trippy work was choreographed to a throbbing, percussive score by his brother Julian Hamilton (of pop band The Presets), while Bonachela’s was performed to string quartets by Bryce Dessner. Originally performed to a recording by the Kronos Quartet, here the Australian String Quartet played live adding another visceral element to...