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![A dancer stands posed, arms outstretched and slightly crouched. She holds an arrow in her teeth. Behind her is a dramatic, green-tinted photograph of the sun depicting several solar flares.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/20211117-GregoryLorenzutti-NewWork-0041-Enhanced-NR.jpg?w=310)
Dance review: Arkadia, RISING Festival, The Substation
An imaginative dance opera by choreographer Melanie Lane.
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Performance review: Romeo & Juliet Suite, Sydney Opera House
Depending on which night you attend, the roles of Rome and Juliet will be played by three separate couples.
![RISING. Against a burning sun going down two figures that look like prehistoric monsters or dinosaurs face off. But are they just performers in flowing costumes?](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Anito_Arts-House_photo-Sarah-Walker-727411.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: ANITO, RISING Festival, Arts House
Costume, puppetry, drag, dance and experimental electronic music combine to interrogate colonial wrongs.
![Sprung Ensemble member, Sinead Skorka Brennan in ‘O, How I Dreamt of Things Impossible’, 2020. Photo: Kate Holmes. A performer on a darkened stage with a colourful bodysuit. The performer lowered their body, supported by their arms and legs like a spider pose.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Image-1_Sinead_web-e1717566573207.jpeg?w=310)
What does a disability-led audition process look like?
With an ensemble call-out and funding for new work, Sprung Dance Theatre is building upon existing disability-led frameworks to expand…
!['Little Murmur' to tour in Australia. Photo: Angela Grabowska. A young woman lies on the stage with a book in her hand and pages flying in the air.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Kallirroi-Vratti-Little-Murmur-Credit-Angela-Grabowska-1-e1717465612566.jpg?w=310)
Dancing through the world of dyslexia
Developed with young audiences in mind, 'Little Murmur' by the UK's Aakash Odedra Company draws on life experiences of dyslexia…
![RISING: A group of three First Peoples and a Caucasian man performing in a rock band with an arch of stage lights behind them. Two are playing guitars, the lead singer is standing on a packing case and one is waving drum sticks.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/BNNB-Rising-Low-Res-38-e1717390017165.jpg?w=310)
Performance reviews: RISING Festival, first weekend
RISING Festival is now off and running. Here is ArtsHub's round-up of the performing arts offerings on the first weekend.
![Queensland Ballet. Three buildings next to each other. One a brick two-storey house with five windows and a door, the middle is a recessed glass and concrete ballet centre, and on the right is a large glass facade.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/TDC_Angharad-Gladding-2-e1716792542582.jpg?w=310)
What the future has in store for Queensland Ballet
After Queensland Ballet’s growth as an internationally recognised arts company, Executive Director Dilshani Weerasinghe considers its achievements and next steps.
![‘Club Vegas: The Spectacle’. Photo: Supplied. A group of six performers on stage in extravagant purple body suit and feather on top of their heads on the stage with spotlights on them.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/phi_2319-e1717130711902.jpeg?w=310)
Performance review: Club Vegas: The Spectacle, Athenaeum
All the ritz and glitz of Vegas in this variety show.
![A dramatically lit photograph of the cast members from the 2024 Australian production of 'Sunset Boulevard', shown in the decaying Hollywood mansion of faded star Norma Desmond.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SUNSET-BOULEVARD-AUSTRALIA-2024-Sarah-Brightman-Tim-Draxl-PIC-CREDIT-DANIEL-BOUD1.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Sunset Boulevard, Princess Theatre
A woefully miscast Sarah Brightman derails this production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, which also features some baffling directorial choices.
![Ride the Cyclone. On a dark stage a group of young school uniform clad people group around a young man who has a green halo around him. Surrounding all of them is a circular ladder like piece of design.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Justin-Grey-and-the-cast-of-RideTheCyclone-PHOTO-PrudenceUpton1-e1716943237432.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Ride the Cyclone, Hayes Theatre
A Canadian hit musical makes its Australian debut.