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Step by step, Australian dance companies plan for the future

October 13, 2020 – 12:23 am

After months of cancelled performances the Sydney Dance Company will return to Carriageworks in Sydney for a season of New

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Au-Gul Gaisina, Australlan Ballet, CarriageWorks, David Hallberg, Giselle, Home of the Arts, New Breed, Queensland Ballet, West Australian Ballet | Comments (0)

The curtain falls for now:How dance companies are reaching out to their audiences

March 15, 2020 – 7:24 am

If you’re reading this you already know that in Australia sports come first and the performing arts come later, if

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Anna Karenina, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australian Ballet, La Scala, Paris Opera Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Royal Opera House, Volt | Comments (0)

The way they were, the way they are: Sydney Dance Company’s 50th anniversary

November 18, 2019 – 10:23 am

Performing arts companies celebrate their anniversaries in different ways but the most popular choice is a â€œbest of the worksâ€

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged 6 Breaths, Bill Pengally, Bradley Chatfield, Gideon Obarzanek, Graeme Murphy, Janet Vernon, Kathryn Dunn, Kip Gamblin, Lea Francis, Linda Ridgway Gamblin, Nina Veretennikova, Pedro Greig, Philippe Charluet, Rafael Bonachela, Sheree da Costa, Stefan Karlsson, Wakako (Kubara) Asano. | Comments (0)

The Sydney Dance Company’s leavers and joiners as it begins an anniversary year

January 17, 2019 – 9:32 am

Among the six dancers leaving the Sydney Dance Company are Bernhard Knauer and Todd Sutherland who have both given so

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged Ariella Casu, Ballet in a Nutshell, Bernard Knauer, Charmene Yap, Chloe Leong, Chloe Young, Davide Di Giovanni, Dimitri Kleioris, Emily Seymour, Holly Doyle, Izzac Carroll, Jacapo Grabar, Janessa Dufty, Jesse Scales, Josephine Weise, Juliette Barton, Lian Green, Luke Hayward, Mia Thompson, Nelson Earl, Petros Treklis, Rafael Bonachela, Riley Ftzgerald, Suzanne Musitz, Todd Sutherland, Victor Zarallo | Comments (0)

Life on the moon and down in the underground

May 4, 2017 – 2:50 am

The double â€˜oâ€™ in the titles of Full Moon and Ocho is the only element that unites Sydney Dance Companyâ€™s

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Charmene Yap, Cloud Gate 2, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Damien Cooper, Fan Huai-chih, Full Moon, James Turrell, Lim Giong, Lin Hwai-Min, Nelson Eartl, Ocho, Olafar Eliasson, Orb, Rafael Bonachela | Comments (0)

Beasts in the wilderness, spirits in flight: SDC’s new double bill

October 21, 2016 – 3:21 am

Weâ€™re edging closer to the third decade of the 21st century but as the year 2020 approaches we seem to

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Anima, Berhard Knauer, Cass Mortimer Eipper, Clemens Habicht, Demon Machine, Dobrinka Tabakova, Gabrielle Nankivell, Holly Doyle, Janessa Dufty, Petros Treklis, Rafael Bonachela, Samuel Webster, Todd Sutherland, Wildebeest | Comments (0)

The long and short of a dancer’s career in Australia

March 21, 2016 – 9:55 am

News of the imminent departure of two Sydney Dance Company dancers made me think about the small number of jobs

By valerie | Posted in Footnotes | Also tagged Australian Ballet, Bangarra Dance Company, Chunky Move, David Mack, Expressions Dance Company, Fiona Jopp, Janessa Dufty, Juliette Barton, Latisha Sparks, Nelson Earl, Richard Cilli | Comments (0)

Dancing in the shadows and playing with pomposity

March 4, 2016 – 10:05 am

First impression of Rafael Bonachelaâ€™s new work, Lux Tenebris: Tribal clusters struggling to escape confined spaces. Itâ€™s hard to tell,

By valerie | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged Alexander Ekman, Bernard Knauer, Cacti, Charmene Yap, CounterMove, Janessa Dufty, Josephine Weise, Juliette Barton, Lois Greenfield, Lux Tenebris, Nelson Earl, Nick Wales, Rafael Bonachela | Comments (0)

Farewell to Andris Toppe, dancer, choreographer, friend and colleague of so many in the Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet

February 25, 2016 – 3:34 am

Andris Toppe has died in Melbourne at the age of 71, having being diagnosed with advanced cancer in early January.

By valerie | Posted in News | Also tagged American Ballet Theatre, Andris Toppe, Australian Ballet, Ballet Victoria, Graeme Murphy, Hamberg Ballet, Janet Vernon, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Mikhail Barysnikov, Natalia Makarova, Nutcracker, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Winnepeg Ballet | Comments (2)

Alexander Ekman, from Cacti to the Cow

February 23, 2016 – 7:12 am

Next Friday, 26 February, Alexander Ekmanâ€™s box office hit, Cacti, is opening in both Wellington and Sydney, with a premiere

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexander Ekman, Cacti, Cow, National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theater, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Semperoper, Tulsa Ballet | Comments (0)

Tag Archives: Sydney Dance Company

Step by step, Australian dance companies plan for the future

The curtain falls for now:How dance companies are reaching out to their audiences

The way they were, the way they are: Sydney Dance Company’s 50th anniversary

The Sydney Dance Company’s leavers and joiners as it begins an anniversary year

Beasts in the wilderness, spirits in flight: SDC’s new double bill

The long and short of a dancer’s career in Australia

Dancing in the shadows and playing with pomposity

Farewell to Andris Toppe, dancer, choreographer, friend and colleague of so many in the Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet

Alexander Ekman, from Cacti to the Cow

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