Dance diary. May 2021
…u In another initiative, the Broome-based company Marrugeku, which is also company in residence at Sydney’s Carriageworks, will present Jurrungu Ngan-ga (Straight Talk) at Carriageworks between 4 and 7 August 2021. This work, based on a concept by Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain with input from Patrick Dodson, reflects on life inside Australian immigration and detention centres. More information from Carriageworks. Emmanuel James Brown in Jurrungu…
Dance diary. March 2018
…on) and Giselle. Further details at this link. In the footsteps of Ruth St Denis Liz Lea’s film that follows the trail of Ruth St Denis and others in India in the early part of last century is due for its first screening later this year. Follow this link to my previous post about this venture and stay tuned for further news. Liz Lea during filming in India On view. Thinking bodies, dancing minds An exhibition of Sue Healey’s dance films will be on…
Dance diary. July 2024
…hares the dance stage to great effect.’ City News (Canberra). Online at this link. MIchelle Potter, 31 July 2024 Featured image: Ana Gallardo Lobaina and Branden Reiners in Alice Topp’s High Tide. Royal New Zealand Ballet, 2024. Photo: © Ross Brown…
Woolf Works. Teatro alla Scala
…Peter and once again they gave exceptional performances. In all, I loved seeing Woolf Works from a completely different position in the auditorium. It simply confirmed my opinion that Woolf Works is a ballet that I will never tire of seeing. Michelle Potter, 23 April 2019 Featured image: Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli in Tuesday from Woolf Works, 2019. Photo: © Marco Brescia and Rudy Amisano, Teatro alla Scala. This image is from the very m…
Shirley McKechnie (1926–2022)
…ian Contemporary Dance Theatre, whose dancers were drawn from the older students of her school. McKechnie was the company’s director and main choreographer between 1963 and 1973. During this time she choreographed a number of works for the company including Sketches on Themes of Paul Klee (1964), Earth Song (1965), Vision of Bones (1966), Sea Interludes (1966), Hymn of Jesus (1967), Of Spiralling Why (1967), The Other Generation (1968), Landscape…
Romeo and Juliet. The Royal Danish Ballet
…l Danish Ballet. Photo: © 2016 Costin Radu As Romeo, Andreas Kaas was as ardent and dramatic in love as one could hope. His enthusiasm and desire for Juliet showed in his every movement. He rushed to her. He could scarcely hold back his longing for her. Kaas and Praetorius, together, made the two characters come alive in a way I have never seen before. It seems like a partnership made in heaven from both a dancerly and dramatic point of view. Anot…
Ochres. Bangarra Dance Theatre
…a low arabesque with one hand on the shoulder for example, followed by sudden movements of the head as if she is curious about, and watchful for what is happening around her. Brown always looks good no matter what style her movements represent. ‘Black’, with contemporary choreography from Stephen Page and traditional choreography from Djakapurra Munyarryun, shows power and masculinity—hunters crouching behind bushes, warriors with their weapons s…
Season’s greetings & the ‘best of’ 2012
…number of categories with links back to my posts on the productions. I welcome, of course, comments and lists from others, which are sure to be different from mine. Most outstanding new choreography: Graeme Murphy’s The narrative of nothing (despite its title), full of vintage Murphy moves but full of the new as well. Most outstanding production: Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Terrain with choreography by Frances Rings and outstanding collaborative inp…
Dance diary. April 2015
…e, it is an entrancing take on store models, positioned as it is outside the fashion floor of David Jones. It looks gorgeous. An article in The Canberra Times explains its genesis. Site news What a surprise to receive a piece of verse as comment! See comments on Yugen and headdresses. Press for April 2015 ‘Celebrating half-century of dance,’ preview of Elizabeth Cameron Dalman’s Fortuity. The Canberra Times, 18 April 2015, Panorama p. 12. Online v…
The Stretton Legacy
…Jeff Busby shot of Elisha Willis in 2000 in William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, and below that is a link to the original Brolga article (with one or two corrections to the original). Other corrections if needed or comments are welcome. Elisha Willis in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, 2000. Photo: © Jeff Busby ‘The Stretton Legacy’. First published in Brolga. An Australian Journal about Dance, December 2005, pp. 31–34. Mi…