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Contemporary Dance Online, On Video and Live |
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So You Think You Can Dance Australia 2010 |
From Sunday 13 January 2010
Network Ten The third season for the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance. The emphasis is on competition and popularity and the judges are often less than informative however it's a good chance to see some good dancers and choreography. Read more... Facebook Twitter |
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Be Your Self - Australian Dance Theatre |
Saturday 20 February - Saturday 27 February 2010
Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
Garry Stewart's world premiere season of Be Your Self reveals the precarious stability of the concept of self as the work steps through the conventions we use to convince ourselves of a singular 'I'.
Collaborating with visionary New York architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' recipients), Stewart wields dance, spoken text, video graphics and architectural design to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are. Be Your Self promises to be a formidable new contribution to Australian contemporary dance.
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Untrained - Lucy Guerin Inc. |
Wednesday 24 February - Sunday 28 February
Adelaide Centre for the Arts, Adelaide SA So, you think you can dance? Untrained is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes its performers and its audience into a whole new undefined experience.
Four men take to the stage. Two are highly skilled, experienced dancers; two are acclaimed visual artists with no movement training whatsoever. The complex, refined moves one can do with ease, another can only try to approximate.
All are given the same instructions. It's how they execute them that displays an individual portrait of each man's character, as well as an unavoidable comparison between the participants. It's this evolution of information, built up through each unit of action, that shows what they have in common and where their physical histories set them apart.
This humorous and courageous examination of dancers and their art could only come from the highly infuential Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based Lucy Guerin, who has built her reputation on movement invention and choreographic structure. Read more... |
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The Memory Progressive - Phantom Limbs |
Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 February 2010
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne The Memory Progressive is a new contemporary dance and multi-media work by young and emerging dance company Phantom Limbs. Central to the work are themes of memory loss, the role of technology in mental reconstruction, and the phenomenon of telepathy. An initial development of the work entitled Ganzfeld Frequency was performed at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall in October 2009 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Read more... |
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The 2009 nominations for the Green Room Awards have just been announced.
The Green Room Awards seek-out excellence on the Melbourne professional stage. In addition, they reward, encourage and celebrate that excellence by producing an awards ceremony that allows peers and public alike to come together and applaud.
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Mortal Engine - Chunky Move |
Wednesday 3 to Saturday 13 March 2010
CUB Malthouse, Melbourne Following a sell-out Melbourne premiere at the 2009 Dance Massive Festival and standing ovations at the Edinburgh International Festival and BAM in New York, Melbourne’s premiere dance company Chunky Move returns to the Malthouse for Mortal Engine. Mortal Engine is a dance-video-laser performance using movement-responsive technology to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Read more... |
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