Brisbane dances to a new tune

A new dance festival in February 2017 will provide a new stage for contemporary dance in Queensland and tough competition for the southern states.

17 Jun 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Gold Coast company The Farm’s The Last Blast, commissioned by Bleach* Festival. Photo by Darcy Grant.

Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane aims to unite Queensland’s diverse dance sector with a program of local, national and international artists in February 2017.

‘Queensland has a really interesting array of contemporary dance companies, which are spread across regional centres as well as Brisbane,’ said festival co-founder Glyn Roberts.

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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