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Reading time • 5 minutesPerth Festival
A female dancer turns her gaze away from a male dancer holding her hand as both are bathed in stage spotlights in the Perth Moves Strut Dance performance. STRUT delivers 15 minutes of flame
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STRUT delivers 15 minutes of flame

9 February 2023

Crystal Pite’s bold choreography delivers 15 minutes of scintillating dance for Perth Moves: 10 Duets on a Theme of Rescue.

Reading time • 5 minutesDance
Drummers and dancers respond to each other on stage in Manifesto. Drummers on risers and dancers sitting on chairs and dancing below in performance of Manifesto Drummers and dancers respond to each other on stage in Manifesto. Powerful primal beat of optimism
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Powerful primal beat of optimism

9 February 2023

Stephanie Lake Company’s exploration of the relationship between rhythm and human movement in Manifesto is intoxicating and invigorating, says Nina Levy. She just wishes she could have been closer to the action.

Reading time • 6 minutesContemporary dance
The Sensemaker - a woman holds the receiver of an old-fashioned landline phone to her ear. Hold the line, this one’s a must-see
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Hold the line, this one’s a must-see

1 February 2023

Solo performer Elsa Couvreur turns the telephonic torment of being put on hold into an hour of witty, spell-binding physical theatre. Rita Clarke’s advice? Don’t miss it.

Reading time • 4 minutesDance
Photo: Mitchell Aldridge A scene from Ignorance Was Bliss in which three young women stand with their hands under the breasts as though pushing them up A tarnished golden age?
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A tarnished golden age?

31 January 2023

Underneath rose-tinted nostalgia Kim Balfour finds darker truths in dance theatre work Ignorance Was Bliss.

Reading time • 4 minutesDance
Reading time • 5 minutesDance
BETA by Mark Haslam. Photo Chris Symes A work from IN.HOUSE Studio Season - a cube is awash with psychedelic colour. Inside we can make out the outline of a dancer Eclectic triple bill of dance ideas
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Eclectic triple bill of dance ideas

25 November 2022

The second iteration of Co3 Contemporary Dance’s ‘IN.HOUSE Studio Season’ provides an intriguing glimpse into the ideas of three dance makers, writes Nina Levy.

Reading time • 6 minutesDance
A dark bird-like creature with dazzling hues rippling through its wings leaps into the air. Behind it, water glistens in star light, though the dark clouds cast a dangerous and moody pallor. This is a scene from WA Ballet's Swan Lake. Noongar thread gives classic an exhilarating spin
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Noongar thread gives classic an exhilarating spin

21 November 2022

Transplanting Swan Lake from Europe to Fremantle, West Australian Ballet weaves Noongar storytelling through the beloved classic in a bold and beautiful move, writes Nina Levy. 

Reading time • 9 minutesDance
Reading time • 7 minutesDance
A woman wearing brown trousers stands between two golden criss-crossed columns, arms outstretched. A black and white still of Rita Hayworth overlays the top of the performer's body, so you can just make out the tip of her head and her hands. It is dancer Sarah Aitken for SITU-8: CITY. Dancers breathe life into grand old dame
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Dancers breathe life into grand old dame

3 November 2022

STRUT Dance and Tura New Music take us into one of Perth’s forgotten beauties for their latest site-specific program. Rita Clarke enjoys the dance down memory lane.

Reading time • 6 minutesDance

Cleaver Street Studio

Cleaver Street Studio

 

Cleaver Street Studio