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Multiform and dance review: Salamander, Brisbane Festival at Northshore 

A multidisciplined dance work with astonishing visuals and powerful contemporary messages, 'Salamander' is a major contributor to this year’s Brisbane…

A black and white image of six figures dancing in a circle. Their arms are outstretched as some of them bend backwards and others inwards. They are wearing black crop tops.
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Site-specific dance in the digital world

How are artists and dance companies creating a sense of place, physicality and location across a screen?

Two male dancers, wearing orange prison overalls rolled down to the waist. Their chests and arms and the floor are streaked with white ochre. Chandler Connell is to the left, in the background, kneeling, arms outstretched to his side. Alexander Abbot is to the right in the foreground. He is standing, legs wide, and leaning back. The background is black.
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Dance review: The Other Side of Me, Darwin Festival

The NT Dance Company's world premiere is truth-telling powerfully expressed by two dancers representing one First Nations man.

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Dance review: 4/4, Merlyn Theatre

Embodied, rigorous and sensorially spectacular, Chunky Move’s latest dance work will linger long past the final beat.

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Festival review: A Divine Comedy and more, Dark Mofo 2023

From thrillingly transgressive dance-theatre to the debauchery of Night Mass, Dark Mofo remains an alluring and challenging spectacle.

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Female dance bodies onstage: are we seeing a revolution?

Is the work of one of Europe’s most of-the-moment choreographers shifting expectations of female bodies on stage?

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Contemporary dance company recognised for pushing boundaries  

Based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, GUTS is the only platform for contemporary dance within a 1500-kilometre radius and the company is…

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Capacity-building program for indie dance sector launched in Brisbane

Skills development, capacity building and funded creative residencies are being offered to independent dance artists in south-east Queensland.

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Dancing into the gallery: Lucy Guerin Inc turns 21

LGI’s NEWRETRO remixes 21 years of choreographic practice.

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Dance review: Jurrungu Ngan-ga, Adelaide Festival

Marrugeku take the the subversive forces of resistance that belong to the most oppressed and transform them into something beautiful.

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