Dance
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Dance review: Jewels, Arts Centre Melbourne
Pretty and charming traditional ballet, though it lacks gravitas.
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Theatre review: The Wizard of Oz, The National Theatre
A loving adaptation of an old favourite.
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Commitment to community at the Brisbane Festival
Celebrating home-grown talent, the Festival also includes significant international collaborations.
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Musical Theatre: The Wizard of Oz in Concert, QPAC
The latest production from Prospero Arts of a perennial favourite ticks many heart-warming boxes.
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Dance review: Yuldea, Sydney Opera House
The clash of traditional Indigenous life and atomic testing at Maralinga.
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Dance review: STATE, State Theatre Centre of WA
Two exciting works of contemporary ballet, inspired by musicality, vulnerability and destruction.
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Bangarra’s new Artistic Director goes back to Country with Yuldea
Frances Rings' family history is entwined in the sands of the traditional lands of the Anangu peoples in the the…
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Female dance bodies onstage: are we seeing a revolution?
Is the work of one of Europe’s most of-the-moment choreographers shifting expectations of female bodies on stage?
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Performance review: Buŋgul, Hamer Hall, RISING
Gurrumul YunupiĹ‹u’s album 'Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)' is translated for the stage by YolĹ‹u dancers and songmen with the…
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Dance review: TANZ, Arts Centre Melbourne, RISING
TANZ has moments of wonder and even the sublime but how transgressive is nudity and gore in 2023?