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Peter Munro

Peter Munro is a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Choreographer Mia Michaels is in Sydney hosting a one-day workshop for "dance warriors"

Top choreographer takes on pushy dance mums

Dancing is not for the faint of heart, back or knees. Dancing hurts. How weary, frail, painful and unprofitable the dance world seems. Award-winning choreographer Mia Michaels compares it to war, but waged by soldiers in spandex and hair buns.

American artist Megan Geckler with her work "A million things that make your head spin", inside Sydney's Customs House

'It's like a computer threw up in space': Sydney's next big thing

"If I have done my job right it should look like a computer threw up in space," she says, staring up at the ceiling. And if the world's largest PC had to heave, it just might look a smidge like this. Several hundred strands of wiry tape stretching down from the canopy of Customs House, cloaking the atrium in streams of colour.