The Australian Dance Party, alongside sustainable fashion designer Kelli Donovan, will explore the connections between fashion, activism, performance and circular design in Clothing the Loop, on November 6 and 7, reports HELEN MUSA.
Ausdance ACT’s Youth Dance Festival continues to be one of Canberra’s most enduring youth arts programs, with its emphasis firmly on student creativity rather than competition, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
As part of both the BOLD and Craft + Design Canberra festivals, Liz Lea will be staging a double bill of dance works themed around design, dance, disability and dissent, titled ALTER, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Mountain is timeless, cyclical and ancient... A remnant of all that has been, where the symmetry of nature meets the ethereal and each element of dance, music and costume perfectly combine.," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews We Come Together to Dance, a performance by Quantum Leap Australia.
From the deeply disturbing dance theatre of Little Dove's The Fool to the anarchic comedy of Frumpus's Landed, The Independents delivers two wildly contrasting shows, reviews GRACE CASSIDY.
"Burn the Floor has become a phenomenon, touring many productions over the years, including to Broadway and West End. And for one night, it was back to entertain Canberra," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
Canberra audiences are in for a wild ride in the Playhouse as six distinctive productions bring independent creators to the stage in Canberra Theatre Centre's The Independents – Festival of New Works, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
MICHELLE POTTER found it "hard to envisage a more unusual dance performance" as she reviews Vivienne Rogis' The Whole Cake.
Dance Makers Collective joined forces with three Canberra dance groups for All in, but the strongest connection came when almost the entire audience joined the dancing, reviews MICHELLE POTTER.
Choreographer Miranda Wheen's company Dance Makers Collective joins with local dance artists from Project Dust, Apsaras Arts Canberra and Quantum Leap Australia to present "the best dance party you've ever been to", writes HELEN MUSA.
Are cake and dancing mutually exclusive? Not if you're Canberra dance artist, Pilates practitioner and co-director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, Vivienne Rogis, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Canberra's dance community devoting an evening at The Street Theatre to exploring Viennese-born Gertrud Bodenwieser's technique and legacy as her influence lives on in Australian dance.
BILL STEPHENS reviews director Bradley McDowell and Canberra Philharmonic Society's newest iteration of the high popular 'Grease', turning it into a high-energy dance extravaganza, thereby avoiding some of the darker aspects of the script.
With the ongoing bid to see Canberra recognised as a UNESCO City of Design in mind, the 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival was launched in fine style at the National Film and Sound Archive on Thursday evening.
To be held at the ANU School of Music from March 23 to 25 next year, the three-day school National Folk Festival will return to Canberra, bringing six international musicians and dancers, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Liz Lea and her colleagues's "distinctively varied' performance in Diamond, the second part of a projected dance trilogy at The Q Theatre.
Inspired by the strength, resilience and many facets of a diamond, Liz Lea's new dance-cum-cabaret show, Diamonds, reflects on how we are shaped by experience, pressure and the determination to keep shining, reports HELEN MUSA.
Mettle was an hour of almost continuous movement from every dancer. They attacked the choreography, with its spectacular twists and turns, with determination and skill," writes reviewer MICHELLE POTTER.
