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Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.

From symphonic reinvention to new theatrical worlds, Limelight's September issue spotlights artists reshaping tradition while forging their own futures.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

Lucy Guerin stepping down as leader of the dance company bearing her name has sent ripples of surprise through Australian performing arts circles.

The acclaimed choreographer relinquishes the artistic directorship of the company that has taken her name across the world.

Two contemporary dance productions remind us to position ourselves as part of, not separate to, nature. 

Hip hop royalty, an inaugural Australian Dance Biennale and "new ideas at scale" in the lineup for Melbourne's edgy winter festival.

An evening of highs and lows at Adelaide Festival. Sometimes, writes Deborah Jones, things just don't work out.

In record time, new Artistic Director Brett Sheehy has put together a program consolidating the festival’s long-held international reputation.

Equations of a Falling Body is a fine addition to Laura Boynes’ evolving oeuvre and a promise of further gems to come.

Chloe Munro, the former Chair of Lucy Guerin Inc, who died in June 2021, has left the Melbourne-based dance company a major bequest, with a large part of it going to independent dance artists.