Dance
![Black and white photo of a female dancer's body twisting in mid-air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/ADC_Photography-Justin-Ridler_51752-1.jpg?w=310)
Australasian Dance Collective launches new vocational training program
Based in Brisbane and supported by the Queensland Government, the ADC will offer full-time pre-professional dance training for emerging dancers…
![RENT: The Musical. Image is a diagonal shot of a line-up on stage of young men and women looking off to the left and singing.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/RENT-PHOTO-@piajohnsonphotography.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: RENT: The Musical, QPAC
This latest iteration of Jonathan Larson's hit show will captivate a new generation of music theatre lovers.
![‘Skid’ by Damien Jalet for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Photo: Lennart Sjoberg. Dancers battling gravity on a tilted white stage. They are upright with knees bent and arms in different movements.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/gallery_skid_credit-lennart-sjoberg-2-e1706525889625.jpeg?w=310)
Dance review: GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Sydney Festival
Two works by starkly different choreographers exemplified the uniting vision of this leading Swedish contemporary dance company.
![It Lights the Whole Sky. Image is a choral group spread through a gallery space, standing on a multicoloured rug surrounded by 19th century paintings of weather phenomena and storms, singing. They all wear black suits and ties, and white shirts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/ngv-fur.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Alchemy Consort: It Lights the Whole Sky, National Gallery of Victoria
Choral music performances that explored the connection between humanity and natural phenomena.
![Dangerous Goods. Three black clad performers wear T shirts that say 'show up' and sing into microphones while spotlights shine down on them.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/dangerous-JadeEllis-highres-697-4.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Dangerous Goods, QPAC
A high-octane cabaret that includes circus, aerials, drag and burlesque.
![Afrocentric. Image is black dancer, dressed in white performing in gallery space at front of the NGV, beside a large black sculpture of a young black woman. There is audience seated around the space.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/afro-e1705885592939.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Afrocentric, National Gallery of Victoria
Nightly performances that celebrate the African diaspora in Australia.
![‘La Bayadère‘ being staged at Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, 1901. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Vintage photograph of ballet production with performers standing outside of a temple setting.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/IMG_3925-e1705459824175.jpeg?w=310)
Hindu leader decries ballet production
Throughout the years, Rajan Zed has protested against numerous productions of ‘La Bayadère’, a piece of classical ballet that is…
![Malevo. A line-up of five bare-chested males raise their drumsticks above their heads and over the drums attached in front of them.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Jordan_Munns_@jordankmunns-11.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: Malevo, Sydney Opera House
The South American all-male dancing and drumming troupe makes its Australian debut.
![Grease. A group of musical theatre performers dressed in 50s clothes sit and stand on the stage facing forward.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/GREASE-2024-photo-Jeff-Busby_2619_Edit.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Grease: The Musical, Her Majesty's Theatre
It's colourful and energetic certainly, but this production does not do anything to update the original flavour.
![Five dancers wearing sleeveless organe tops and loose grey pants move-animal-like across on the stage on all fours. Behind them in a black and white digital animation of stylised animals including a rhino, camels and a giraffe.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/ArtsHub-editorial-image.png?w=310)
Dancing with wolves in the national capital
The work of one of the world’s greatest contemporary choreographers has never been seen in Canberra – until now.