Dancing Blokes set for Darwin premiere

Dancers Matt Cornell and Joshua Thomson are preparing to reveal their movement-based investigation into the typical Aussie male.
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Among a range of dance offerings at this year’s Darwin Festival, which cover the full spectrum from traditional Torres Strait stories to a comedy dance show performed in a boxing ring under the stars, the simply titled Blokes stands out.

Created after six-and-a-half weeks of research, interviews and short apprentices with a range of Top-End men working in traditionally masculine fields, the new production has grown out of a combined sense of curiosity and loss, says co-creator Matt Cornell.

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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