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Out of the lounge room, onto the dance floor
From Darwin to Melbourne, dance lovers from all walks of life unite for Big Dance.
Everybody trance now: the rise of ritual in dance
Dance works which evoke trance and ritual appear to be enjoying a resurgence. Are they a response to our technologically-mediated…
Bangarra dance program strengthens connection between elders and youth
Bangarra's youth outreach program Rekindling returns in 2018, encouraging Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander students to explore culture and relationships…
Dead white males and gay dancers: challenging stereotypes part two
If you think that classical music is all about dead white males, or that there’s something unmanly about male ballet…
Why all young men should learn to dance
Fitness, teamwork, agility, creativity: the benefits of learning to dance far outweigh the pressures of avoiding a ‘girly’ pastime.
I want to dance better with VR
Virtual reality enables the audience perspective to leave the stalls and become part of the action in a boundary-smashing collaboration…
Australian dance: in search of a style
The contemporary dance sector is a vibrant one, but is there anything about its work that is distinctively Australian?
Attracting new audiences to contemporary dance
By turns abstract and emotive, celebratory and confronting, contemporary dance can be a difficult art form to sell to audiences.
Even the winners have lost
Now that the dust has settled from the latest Australia Council organisations funding round, we can see the implications for…
Why we need dance criticism
To preserve ephemeral art forms we need to write about them creatively and exactingly.
