Bespoke, 2022. Queensland Ballet
…it was not a forced smile, just an expression of emotion and pleasure at being onstage, and that expression coursed through her whole body. I am so looking forward to seeing her perform again. Laura Tosar and Patricio Reve in a pas de deux from A Rhapsody in Motion. Queensland Ballet, 2022. Photo: ©David Kelly This triple bill was a mixed bag and it is always a thrill to watch Queensland Ballet take on the challenges that Bespoke offers. A progra…
About Michelle
…Day Award. In 2012 she was the recipient of a Scholars and Artists in Residence Fellowship at the National Film and Sound Archive. With Australian actor Tara Morice at the Australian Dance Awards, 2001. Photo: © Richard Merchant Michelle was Esso Research Fellow in the Performing Arts at the National Library of Australia, 1988 to 1990 and between 1998 and 2001 managed the Keep Dancing Project at the National Film and Sound Archive. She was inaugu…
Dance diary. September 2023
…d collaborations with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre Student Ensemble, Mirramu Dance Company as led by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, and a list of individual artists too long to mention but who include Phillip Adams, Jennifer Barry, Julia Cotton, Patrick Harding-Irmer, Russell Page, Paul Saliba, Cheryl Stock, and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal. CDT is also the home of the GOLDS, Canberra’s much admired group of dancers over the age of 55. J…
James Batchelor. New choreographic perspectives
…he ensuing conversation so impressed Coffin that he invited Batchelor to accompany a research voyage to the Southern Ocean. Batchelor and visual artist Annalise Rees, who is undertaking a PhD at the Institute, will set sail with a team of international scientists in January 2016 on board the RV Investigator heading towards Heard and McDonald Islands. The scientific aim of the voyage, Batchelor says, is to produce three-dimensional, high-resolution…
New Zealand School of Music + Dancers
…its resonances of dance rhythm bedded in to the score. These were given welcome comment in Hamish Robb’s spoken introduction. ‘Talking about music is like dancing about architecture’ is a saying attributed to many, and points to the primacy of an original work, and the sometimes superfluous attempts to translate that into verbal form. Robb however has a natural gift of talking about features in the score, and can highlight moments in playing them…
Lobsters. Borderline Arts Ensemble
…ves you breathless though seems not to have that effect on him. Two highly competent male dancers, Emmanuel Reynaud and Matthew Moore, complete the cast and are fully focused to the atmosphere and structure of the work. Ask your local festival talent scout to check out Lobsters. The extremely efficient production team, including dramaturg Miranda Manasiadis, will be back in touch by lunchtime. Jennifer Shennan, 26 October 2017 Lucy Marinkovich in…
Nureyev. Legend and Legacy. Marquee TV
…closed spectacularly with the pas de deux from Le Corsaire, a work that is undeniably connected to Nureyev’s astonishing career in the West. It was danced by the beautiful Yasmine Naghdi, whose work I have admired for a number of years, and the simply astonishing Cesar Corrales. In particular, Corrales’ solo demonstrated the extraordinary way he uses his body. He sweeps the floor at times as he leans into a step, but then reaches skywards at other…
Body Torque 2.2. The Australian Ballet
…nter Closer. Body Torque has been a feature of the Australian Ballet’s annual season for a number of years now and is the most recent development in a long line of similar Australian Ballet workshop activities dating back to the earliest days of the company under Peggy van Praagh. Choreographic workshops need strong direction however and only Bleecker and Fade Out looked as though they had been subjected to any sort of rigorous discussion with pee…
Amber Scott as Aurora
…xteen year old on the cusp of maturity. Her more experienced colleagues in companies around the world are able to differentiate between the beginning and the end of the ballet. But time is on her side and I look forward to seeing her grow into a luminous ballerina, which appears to be her destiny. Daniel Gaudiello also continues to impress. His Bluebird was airborne and full of idiosyncratic flutters of the arms and hands (perhaps as befits the id…
Jan Fabre—beyond choreography
…including Rembrandt and Rubens. Such hangs have not always drawn positive comments, with the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro commenting of this 2008 show ‘…. why this mania to bring this farce into classical museums, and in particular the Louvre?’ But with his juxtapositions Fabre, who is widely known to the Australian dance community as a choreographer—perhaps more so than as a visual artist, sets up a dialogue between the old and the new, between…