Idiot's guide to Melbourne's big new arts festival, Asia TOPA
This big new triennial goes for months, so let us help you find the best must-see events from the program.
Dance
Institute review: brilliant movers provide both laughs and gasps
A must-see festival show steeped in nightmarish situations.
Blood On The Dance Floor aims to change minds about HIV
A blood-red video underscores a passionate show.
Storytime Ballet: The Nutcracker by The Australian Ballet is in town
Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet has been adapted into a narrated version especially suited to introduce young children to the art form.
Sydney Festival review: a chance to laugh at a dance performance
With commentary from Channel Seven's Mel McLaughlin, the festival show is about Australia's obsession with sport.
Sydney Festival review: Inheritor Album
The six dancers of Canada's Company 605 attack their action-packed material with enormous energy and impressive agility.
Townsville meets Tokyo in dance collaboration
Spectra, a Japanese-Australian collaboration between Dancenorth and the butoh collective Batik, pursues a theme of interconnectedness.
Human bodies in graceful action
Was it the dancers? The paintings and sculpture? The music? The audience? The gallery ambience? The nudity that got us there in the first place?
Cry Jailolo's synchronicity close to perfection
The great thing about a festival is the way it brings together people and performances that you wouldn't otherwise encounter.
Fun show that has not forgotten dancers are the heroes
A lot has changed since Burn the Floor first premiered two decades ago.
The 'A' is for 'anonymous' but this Japanese troupe has a global following
The name SIRO comes from the Japanese for "white" or "colourless". The "A" stands for "anonymous". But this techno-pop dance and mime troupe are anything but.
The Australian Ballet's Storytime Ballet: The Nutcracker is coming
The production is aimed at introducing Tchaikovsky's classic to young children in a shortened version with a narrator.
Dance in review
Nakedness in dance can be beautiful but it doesn't improve the quality of the choreography.
Champions to show merits of teamwork, blending dance and sport
Shifting patterns... Bodies moving in space to a grand plan... Tension building, then releasing...
Nutcracker production fails to find the magic
This performance was far from inspiring; I have seen much better by a dance school.
Top dance picks of 2016
From locally created "underground" performances to an excellent touring traditional ballet, this was a strong year for dance.
Fractured movements reflect year of fiscal uncertainty for dancers
End of year wrap up- Dance
RiRi or Bey? You decide at BingeFest
Are you big on RiRi or are you more in the Sasha Fierce camp? Or maybe you haven't a clue what that even means.
Nutcracker adaptation for kids is lots of fun and doesn't scrimp on skilful dancing
The Australian ballet clearly understands the needs of its young audience in this Storytime Ballet version of the Christmas classic.
Bored ballerinas with patchy technique let down a standout soloist
Irina Kolesnikova is outstanding in the lead roles. It's a shame the supporting cast wasn't up to scratch.
Youth dance pioneer Ruth Osborne receives Churchill Fellowship
Dancer Ruth Osborne has been mentoring young people in Canberra for almost 20 years.
Price shines at Genee International Ballet Competition
The audience buzz after 16-year-old Joshua Price completed his solo from Le Corsaire told you instantly who was going to get the audience choice award.
Future gleams from darkness
PPY16 – Revealed
Ballet world holds its breath as injured superstar returns
American ballet superstar David Hallberg sits gently rotating his left ankle. He has, say ballet experts, perfect feet with "dolphin arches".
Principal dancers bring the magic of Coppelia
The Australian Ballet delivered some thrilling displays of dance, presented not in an exhibitionist way but with a kind of modesty that fits the folksy theme of the ballet.
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