Production photography by Amanda James.
Dark, challenging and disturbing this premiere production by the new National Theatre of Parramatta is superb, and opens the Company’s first season magnificently.
Scottish Stef Smith’s nightmarish yet sometime driftingly dreamlike play is …
When we talk about Flamenco, we talk about a rare and vibrant fusion of art, dance, voice and musical accompaniment.
Last night I went to the Foundry in Ultimo to see the group Flamenkisimo perform their new show, Entrelazar (…
The Taming of the Shrew is generally extremely difficult to bring off in this day and age. However this is a contemporarized, dazzling choreographed and danced version that will have you cheering at the end.
In the ballet world the …
The Royal Ballet weave their magic in an Peter Wright’s splendiferous, spectacular version of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet.
It is a sumptuous, quite traditional version, which has been around for about 30 years now and retains the Petipa /Ivanov choreography and …
This was a fascinating, vigorous panel discussion , the second of the Culture Club talks for 2016, that had the large packed audience enthralled and with lots of questions afterwards .
The announced topic was If everyone can ‘dance’, what …
Can a robot actually dance ? In this case, yes.
Huang Yi from Taiwan always wanted a robot companion as a child. Now he has one.
This work was first performed in 2013 and has travelled internationally. It was inspired …
With this screening ballet lovers are in for a great treat with the wonderful Paris Opera Ballet bringing us an extraordinary quadruple bill of four famous Diaghilev Ballets Russes works that are very rarely performed on the contemporary stage. The …
This breathtaking production by the Bolshoi Ballet of John Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias is full of shattering, overwhelming tempestuous passion that had some audience members in tears at the end.
This is the Neumeier version originally created for the …
I recently attended the Media Call of the Sydney Dance Company’s current CounterMoves Season. Here are some of my favourite photos.
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Can you hear them? Here dwell the spirits of the great artists of the past”. One of the leading theatrical impresarios of all time, Paolo Grassi, said this of the Teatro Alla Scala, and this is what makes …