Parris Goebel is just getting started
From Jennifer Lopez to Justin Bieber, Auckland’s Parris Goebel has worked with them all. Best known for choreographing Bieber’s music video, “Sorry”, which has garnered over 2.5 billion views to date,...
View ArticleSpeaking with the pros: Dancer-choreographer Mitchell Woodcock
Mitchell Woodcock has done it all: commercial dance, musical theatre, back-up dancing and television work. He can quickly change his hat from West Side Story to hit show Dance Academy. His resume lists...
View ArticleChoreographer Nathan M. Wright talks ‘The Rocky Horror Show’, The...
Juggling choreography for three professional productions is not an easy task, especially when they are staged at the same time on two different sides of the world! Having choreographed the UK...
View ArticleOmer Backley-Astrachan: In the liminal space between us
Civilisation has bestowed many things on humanity, not the least of which is a way of living and being together that would have been not just unimaginable but barely intelligible to our hunter-gatherer...
View ArticleKristina Chan’s ‘A Faint Existence’: Environmental movement
Yes, environment. No, not merely the reductionist narrative or narrow polemic of political theatre but the broader existential relationship we are all experiencing with the constantly morphing universe...
View ArticleChoreography Advice Series: Sydney Dance Company’s Rafael Bonachela
While there’s no shortage of advice out there for young dancers, the same can’t be said for aspiring choreographers. For those whose dream is to create dance, the road to success can seem...
View ArticleMeg Stuart: Trans-personal hygiene
On stage, there is a drum kit. It is a warm early autumn night, and the auditorium is tightly packed for the appearance of the American-born, European-based dancemaker. She’s been here in Australia for...
View ArticleCatching up with Lucy Guerin on ‘Split’
Lucy Guerin’s work has been described as “poignant” and “provocative”, “contemporary dance that reaches back to the roots of ancient theatre”. Dance Informa caught up with Guerin in between...
View ArticleStephanie Lake’s ‘Colossus’: Stage set for big impact
Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With a number of impressive dance industry accolades,...
View ArticleCan I have a word with you? Neale Whittaker’s first full-length contemporary...
Although it sometimes seems as though we are in an age of hyper-polarised opinion, in which a click speed culture is driving a reactive retreat into the comforts of imagined certainties, there are...
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