Season Preview 2026: Opera and Dance
What do our opera and dance companies have on offer in the year ahead?
What do our opera and dance companies have on offer in the year ahead?
“Lower your guard,” says incoming Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, heralding the return of Peter Sellars and contemporary music.
Bringing together 1,000 volunteers, Stephanie Lake’s one-off, site-specific happening is a hypnotic celebration of community and the joy of dance.
Immaculate work from a company of 12 but there may be less to The Chronicles than meets the eye.
Twelve arts companies "seeking stability" to benefit from additional funding; St Martin's Youth Arts, Slingsby and La Mama among the recipients.
Calling South Australian dancers aged 12 and over: Stephanie Lake is creating a work for 1,000 performers to open the 2025 Adelaide Festival.
Alison Whyte performs with three dancers in this theatre production where speech and dance set out to express human terror, courage and risk-taking.
The Australian Ballet and Telstra have announced that Erin O’Rourke is the winner of the 2022 Telstra Emerging Choreographer Award for her work ‘yellow mellow’.
Energy abounds in Manifesto, Stephanie Lake’s thrilling work for nine drummers and nine dancers.
"I’m still pinching myself," says Lake as her career hits top gear with her latest work, Manifesto.
Create NSW and the ABC have also announced support packages, while the City of Melbourne has announced the first of its successful grant recipients and Queensland's HOTA announces newly funded projects.
A glimpse into the complexities that can shape the peculiar connection between two living organisms.