Dance
This glittering production of George Balanchine’s Jewels is as much a crowd-pleasing display of dazzling eye candy as a showcase for the ballet aficionado, with the technical prowess of the company’s dancers exhibited in three acts of divergent styles.
Adelaide Festival
Restless Dance Theatre’s exploration of sex, love and intimacy is gentle, playful and moving.
Dancing can take a heavy toll on the professional artist’s body, but the aesthetic qualities of Javanese dance and rich creative collaborations have helped Adelaide-based Ade Suharto develop a practice to last a lifetime.
Staging a well-loved classic while keeping it fresh is a tricky task, but the Australian Ballet pulls it off in this glorious showpiece for the company’s 60th-anniversary celebration.
This intensely physical stage work created by a collection of independent artistic collaborators is – at its highest points – made hypnotic through the use of some genuinely original devices and ideas.
Australian Dance Theatre’s Tracker is a powerful evocation of the life of artistic director Daniel Riley’s great-great uncle, Alec “Tracker’ Riley, through an ambitious blend of contemporary dance, theatre, and ceremony.
