Sydney Dance Company’s INDance, now in its fourth year, is a small festival that presents already existing – although relatively new – works in SDC’s black-box Neilson Studio. It’s a pick’n’mix program. Casts tend to be small, there’s not a lot in the way of fancy lighting or sets that knock your socks off. This…
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My year in dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Pina Bausch made my year. For his final Sydney Festival in January, artistic director Lieven Bertels programmed two bracing De Keersmaeker works, Fase and Vortex Temporum, and the huge thrill was seeing the choreographer herself in Fase (my review is here). Living dance history. Festival clout and money also made…
Liveworks: Chan, Gunn & Lloyd, Choy
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. The Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, October 27, November 2. A pulsating, unforgiving light picks out Kristina Chan’s forehead and underscores her cheekbones, sculpting her face into an eerie mask. A lone figure in the gloom, she rises to the balls of her feet then drives her heels into the…
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