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Dance for Parkinson's: Yes, you can be a Bowie hero

Dance for Parkinson's: Yes, you can be a Bowie hero

Dancing to David Bowie's Heroes and The Jean Genie, the 70 dancers with Parkinson's disease let themselves go for an hour of joy and movement.

  • by Julie Power

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Michael Clark review: Bad boy of dance comes good with rocking Horses project

Michael Clark review: Bad boy of dance comes good with rocking Horses project

Not so many years ago Michael Clark was the "bad boy" of mainstream dance, subverting his classical training – Britain's Royal Ballet School no less – into outrageous and provocative entertainment, often with the use of startling props.

  • by Jill Sykes
'Nearly ideal': Cella shines at Sydney Festival

'Nearly ideal': Cella shines at Sydney Festival

Cella is Latin for cell, and this engrossing work has been choreographed by its performers, Narelle Benjamin and Paul White, to reflect the "complex structures of our biological system".

  • by Jill Sykes
Backbone: Circus, dance and theatre magicly entwined

Backbone: Circus, dance and theatre magicly entwined

Backbone has the excitement of circus combined with the grace of dance and the magic of theatre.

  • by Jill Sykes
Dance year in review: The good, the bad and the 'What were they thinking?'

Dance year in review: The good, the bad and the 'What were they thinking?'

How to sum up a year of dance with all the contradictory extremes you might expect: thrilling and disappointing, technically impressive and technically challenged, polished and raw, memorable and forgettable – and that's just for starters.

  • by Jill Sykes
Peter Martins retires from New York City Ballet after misconduct allegations

Peter Martins retires from New York City Ballet after misconduct allegations

After accusations of sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse, Peter Martins, the powerful leader of New York City Ballet who shaped the company for more than three decades, has decided to retire.

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