Dance and movement, one of the original and strongest story telling modalities throughout history finds its origin seeded in the people and blooming through the production of the Bangarra Dance Theatre in the breathtaking three part performance; Keeping Grounded, …
The Victorian State Ballet will present ALADDIN, a dazzling ballet production at The Concourse Theatre, Chatswood on Friday 19 June and Saturday 20 June 2026.
Created by the company’s directors, Michelle Cassar de Sierra and Martin Sierra, ALADDIN …
Above : Romeo And Juliet (Cranko) Grace Carroll, Joseph Caley Pic Daniel Boud
One of the landmarks of The Australian Ballet’s history, John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet was first performed by the Company in 1974. More than a classic, it …
After 35 years as Australia’s leading First Nations performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre moved last year from their residence of 20 years, the Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, upstairs to the Joan Sutherland Theatre, which they now …
At 6pm there was a queue of people – maybe 100 – stretching half a block down Clarence Street waiting to enter the Machine Hall for the performance of AURA MECHANICA by Twisted Element Company. There seemed something grunge …
WAYFINDER recontextualises contemporary dance. It presents a visceral argument and affirmation for the human condition, both generally and in the apparently current strife torn times. Born in the constraints of Covid, the choreographic couple Amber Haines and Kyle …
Under a dazzling chandelier in an intimately sized room in the Sydney Town Hall, wegathered to enjoy the polka chinata, a near-forgotten Italian dance from the Bolognaregion. Traditionally a courtship ritual, the dance has been revived by Italian creative artist …
A dance party for the end of time. May it never end. What a blast. Move over contemporary dance – the Inter Asian mob are in town.
The creator Eun-Me Ahn (also Artistic Directior, Choreographer, Set and Costume Designer) explains …
Sydney Opera House, 21 November 2025. David McAllister’s decade-old production of The Sleeping Beauty returns, and from the first chord it is clear this is no children’s fairy tale but a glittering allegory of absolutist order. Premiered in 1890 by …
At first one might think that the title of the Australian Ballet’s contemporary dance program, PRISM, refers to the structure of the work, both in its three separate works and overall. This is undoubtedly, to a large degree, correct. Not …