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ballet companies: a male-female ballet pas de deux posing in a white tutu costume against a bright pink backdrop. Their pose is mirror imaged on each half of the photo.
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Cost crises and funding parity issues for ballet companies outside Sydney-Melbourne bubble

Two major ballet companies say they are not receiving equitable government funding support. How much is their location to blame?

A man is standing, with a woman on top of him, He's holding up a sign with 'Love" on it. There is a crowd around them holding up signs with other words including 'Power', 'Mind', "rest' and "Sense'
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Dance review: Perth Moves: Manifest, Forrest Place, Perth Festival

Moroccan-Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui brings his creative vision to Perth.

A bare-chested man with black pants is holding onto a woman in white. There is a white railing behind them.
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Ballet review: Nijinsky, Regent Theatre

The Australian Ballet is in its element for John Neumeier's 'Nijinsky'.

'Garry Starr: Classic Penguins' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe 2025. A photoshopped image of a fair-skinned man with curly black hair and a neat beard wearing an orange-coloured Elizabethan ruff. His arms from the elbows down, and his body from the waist down, have been photoshopped to appear like a penguin. He leans on his left flipper and sits on his left penguin hip, his orange penguin feet and right flipper raised.
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Performance reviews: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins and Thunderstuck: A Night of Classic Rock, Adelaide Fringe 2025

From brilliant, in-your-face clowning to contemporary dance performed to a virtuosic live violin score of rock classics, two fascinating but…

Larsen C: six dancers in metallic grey/black costumes pictured in synchronous movement bending sideways against a black backdrop.
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Dance review: Larsen C, State Theatre Centre of WA

A stunning collusion of minimalist movement and brilliant lighting design, this dance work heightens our awareness of the elemental forces…

Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. Garland is using an eyebrow brush. Minnelli has a black hat on.
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Performance review: Liza's Good Judy, Motley Bauhaus, midsumma festival

Classic songs in an ambitious tribute to, and exploration of, legends Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli.

Six dancers wearing singlets and undies and skull-fitting caps are in various states of contortion.
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Dance review: Tantrum for 6, Northcote Town Hall

Six new beings navigate their world in a contemporary dance exploration of primal infancy and growth.

A scene from Shaun Parker & Company's 'KING' depicting seven shirtless male dancers, some with fists raised threateningly, others pointing accusingly, at an eight dancer who lies prone and protesting on the stage.
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Dance-theatre critique of toxic masculinity, 'KING', invited to Belgrade Dance Festival

Shaun Parker and Company’s ‘KING’ tours to Serbia next month, with Australian triple-threat dancer, actor and singer-songwriter Keiynan Lonsdale now…

Six dancers in formation. The bare-chested men in black pants are balancing the women on their backs.
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Ballet review: The Wild Between Stars: Ballet at the Quarry, Perth Festival

Three different performances showcase different choreographic styles and ambience.

Three women with elaborate bouffant blonde hairstyles. The one in the middle is pointing a pink gun directly in front of her.
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Musical review: Ruthless! the Musical, MC Showroom, midsumma festival

Interwoven tales of raging ambition for theatre stardom, with songs, sequins and satire.

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