Death, destruction, despair make for earthy Adelaide Festival opening weekend
Lars Eidinger's Richard III is all too knowing and self-referential a villain.
Dance
Powerful intimacy renders gender irrelevant
In Difference Lennox Theatre, Riverside, March 2 ★★★★
The man taking extreme running (and dancing) around world
Is it art? Or sport? Tristan Meecham will run a marathon on a treadmill amid a dancing, drumming and boxing spectacular.
Why you need to see … Melbourne Ballet Company
Sydney dance fans are about to see what Melbourne Ballet Company can do in Being and Time at Concourse Theatre.
Tao Dance Theatre's exacting, exquisite choreography creates masterful display
The rigour here is exquisite – and exquisitely excruciating to watch. Never once is the discipline abandoned.
Asia TOPA's XO State Dusk show Attractor is primal, electrifying contemporary dance at its best
This international collaboration deserves a longer run than the few nights it is showing at Asia TOPA in Melbourne.
US ballet superstar to call Australia home for a little longer
David Hallberg is to become the first international guest artist in residence at the Australian Ballet, which he credits with helping save his career after injury.
Sammohanam delivers on an elusive quality
Sammohanam
One Beautiful Thing review: Disparate art forms fail to gel
Contemporary circus meets stunning 12th century Indian acrobatics in Circa's One Beautiful Thing.
Ballerinas turn kitsch military fairytale into fierce spectacle
There are no princesses, no sylphs and no enchanted swans, but The Red Detachment of Women is nonetheless a fairytale ballet
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.
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.
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