Dance
Changes made to Playing Australia cautiously welcomed
The Australia Council has reintroduced multi-year investments and streamlined the application process for the Regional Performing Arts Touring program.
Review: ‘Outlines’ is a lockdown gift from Sydney Opera House
Four substantial new digital works from Australia, the UK and Korea are freely available to stream. Chris Boyd applauds the…
Musical Review: West Side Story, QPAC
Touches of brilliance in this staging of a classic but lacks menace and urgency.
Wanted: prospective ballet dancers who don’t fit the mould
Auditions for the National Theatre Ballet School are opening soon, and students with a passion for dance from all walks…
Opera Review: The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Queensland
Froth and scandal: a classic that bears modern resonance.
Artist-driven vaccination campaign urges audiences to play a part in pandemic recovery
Victorian audiences are being urged to give the ‘performance of a lifetime’ by getting vaccinated.
Ballet review: Anna Karenina, Festival Theatre
Passion and frustration: Tolstoy's classic text unfurls in dance.
$75M in lockdown relief for NSW performing arts orgs
The NSW Government has announced a quick turn-around support package for performing arts organisations and music venues, impacted by the…
Choreography and the museum: how to make collaboration work
Made up of five public institutions from Australia and the world, Precarious Movements is a prime example of collaboration at…
Dancing across borders: empowering students to become agents of change
A new Master of Dance begins at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2022, offering…