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momenta. Around a dozen dancers on a dark stage wear tight leotards, and tights in muted tones of beige or grey. Their bodies are turned to the back but their heads look back towards the camera with their left hand touching their cheek as if showing their faces to the light.
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Dance: momenta, Roslyn Packer Theatre

Immense athleticism in the body's exploration of time and space.

Ruth Maddison, ‘An abundance of caution’, on view at SECCA. Photo: Supplied.
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Not your inspirational quote – the dark and humorous side of text in craft

Artists working with text in craft are interrogating the usage of language through humour in dark times.

Switzerland. A theatre set of a writer's study with grey concrete walls, a two seater leather backed couch, a wooden coffee table and downstage a cluttered desk with a middle aged white woman working at a typewriter. Behind her a young white man has come through the door and looks nervous.
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Theatre review: Switzerland, Ensemble Theatre

Patricia Highsmith is all the rage at the moment, so it's a good time to stage Joanna Murray-Smith's play about…

Fourteen. A stage set of a two-storey building, in the middle of the stage standing on the middle of three desks is a young man holding a bunch of flowers and throwing both arms in the air extravagantly.
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Why I've programmed Fourteen for Bathurst

The manager of BMEC explains why he has picked this particular production from Shake & Stir Theatre Company to share…

The Australian Ballet. Circle Electric. Bathed in a red glow a troupe of ballet dancers are assembled beneath a large neon hoop. The dancers are eclectic and in all sorts of shapes, one is held aloft surrounded by smoke.
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Dance review: Études/Circle Electric, Sydney Opera House

A double bill of dance that canvasses contemporary and classical works.

Man with children looking a sculpture of pregnant woman in gallery. Ron Mueck
Features

Does spend equal impact?

Taking the pulse on the National Gallery’s Collection share.

Season One: Terrestrial. BRAG. A gallery room with two water filled clear bags, with tubes connecting them to hanging organic material figures.
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New Bathurst program considers land in a new light

The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery launches Season One: Terrestrial. An exhibition connecting the dots between time and land.

An elderly white female artist wearing bold red rimmed glasses in her ceramics studio.
Features

How art trails are building pipelines of new gallery audiences

Artists’ open house art trails are often very popular events in their own right. But they are also a big…

2022 JADA Exhibition at Grafton Regional Gallery. Photo: Melting Wax Photography. People inside a gallery space with white walls and grey floor. Different works of varying scales are hung, while closest to the viewer is a paper-based work enclosed in a glass display.
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$40,000 drawing prize with local history

Grafton Regional Gallery’s Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award is built on a 36-year history with cash prizes to champion drawing excellence.

brightly coloured sculptures suspended from ceiling in dark room. Artist Caroline Rothwell
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Exhibition review: Ross & Rothwell: in the same boat, Ngununggula

Joan Ross and Caroline Rothwell make for a perfect pairing, in an edgy exhibition that rattles colonial history and legacies.

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