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'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.

Carcaca: ten contemporary dance performers dressed in a range of colourful and black cstumes dancing as a group on an open stage.
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Dance Review: CARCAÇA, State Theatre Centre, Perth Festival

While this high-octane, percussive dance work lacks a coherent conceptual thread, the individual energies of its cast carry it through.

Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival is hoping to proceed in 2026.
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Cape York's Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival delayed following management review

The Festival has run biennially for 40 years, but will not proceed in 2025 amid organisational challenges.

A performer in a white jumpsuit with rainbow trim. Swirling around them are two rainbow ribbons.
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Performance review: Yummy: Joy Machine, FRINGE WORLD

High-voltage drag cabaret.

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