''Faster'' is a modern ballet that plays out like an MGM musical with a Hitchcockian soundtrack.

A dance duel turns out to be more contemplative than flamboyant in its theatrical context.

Graeme Murphy is as nervous about the premiere of his new show in Tasmania as he would be of performing at the Bolshoi.

Rhiannon Newton's latest work, part of Dance Massive, offers a provocation as much as a performance.

Nat Cursio was 41 when she tried skateboarding for the first time, and even a trip to the hospital didn't deter her.

Lars Eidinger's Richard III is all too knowing and self-referential a villain.

 In Difference Lennox Theatre, Riverside, March 2 ★★★★

Is it art? Or sport? Tristan Meecham will run a marathon on a treadmill amid a dancing, drumming and boxing spectacular.

Sydney dance fans are about to see what Melbourne Ballet Company can do in Being and Time at Concourse Theatre.

The rigour here is exquisite – and exquisitely excruciating to watch. Never once is the discipline abandoned.

This international collaboration deserves a longer run than the few nights it is showing at Asia TOPA in Melbourne.

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

Contemporary circus meets stunning 12th century Indian acrobatics in Circa's One Beautiful Thing.

There are no princesses, no sylphs and no enchanted swans, but The Red Detachment of Women is nonetheless a fairytale ballet

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A must-see festival show steeped in nightmarish situations.

A blood-red video underscores a passionate show.

Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet has been adapted into a narrated version especially suited to introduce young children to the art form.

With commentary from Channel Seven's Mel McLaughlin, the festival show is about Australia's obsession with sport.

The six dancers of Canada's Company 605 attack their action-packed material with enormous energy and impressive agility.

Spectra, a Japanese-Australian collaboration between Dancenorth and the butoh collective Batik, pursues a theme of interconnectedness.

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?

The great thing about a festival is the way it brings together people and performances that you wouldn't otherwise encounter.