A book club for contemporary dance

When is a picnic not a picnic? When it’s a critnic.

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Frustrated with the sometimes limited conversation around contemporary dance, and in particular her own inability to articulate her thoughts about works she’d just seen, Melbourne choreographer and curator Natalie Cursio has melded the familiar model of the book club with the convivial atmosphere of a picnic in the hope of inspiring more rigorous and critical discussion among her peers.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts