‘Of earth and sky’: Bangarra Dance Theatre
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 23 July–28 August Bangarra Dance Theatre, which was founded by Carole Johnson in 1989, has entered its twenty-first year with a program of two works under the generic...
View Article‘Terrain’: Bangarra Dance Theatre
13 September 2012, Canberra Theatre This is an expanded version of my review of Terrain published in The Canberra Times, 15 September 2012, under the title ‘Dancing into luscious terrain’. Bangarra...
View ArticleSeason’s greetings & the ‘best of’ 2012
Thank you to those who have logged on to my website over the past year, especially those who have kept the site alive with their comments. I wish you the compliments of the season and look forward to...
View Article‘Of earth and sky’: Bangarra Dance Theatre
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 23 July–28 August Bangarra Dance Theatre, which was founded by Carole Johnson in 1989, has entered its twenty-first year with a program of two works under the generic...
View Article‘Terrain’: Bangarra Dance Theatre
13 September 2012, Canberra Theatre This is an expanded version of my review of Terrain published in The Canberra Times, 15 September 2012, under the title ‘Dancing into luscious terrain’. Bangarra...
View ArticleSeason’s greetings & the ‘best of’ 2012
Thank you to those who have logged on to my website over the past year, especially those who have kept the site alive with their comments. I wish you the compliments of the season and look forward to...
View Article‘Lore’: Bangarra Dance Theatre
9 July 2015, Canberra Theatre It would be hard to find two such disparate works as the two that make up lore, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest program curated by the company’s artistic director, Stephen...
View ArticleSeason’s greetings & the ‘best of’ 2012
Thank you to those who have logged on to my website over the past year, especially those who have kept the site alive with their comments. I wish you the compliments of the season and look forward to...
View ArticleAustralian Dance Awards 2014
The annual Australian Dance Awards were announced in Sydney last night in a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House hosted by Frances Rings and Kip Gamblin. My report for The Canberra Times necessarily...
View ArticleLore. Bangarra Dance Theatre
9 July 2015, Canberra Theatre It would be hard to find two such disparate works as the two that make up lore, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest program curated by the company’s artistic director,...
View ArticleDance diary. November 2018
The changing face of Bangarra Dance Theatre Bangarra Dance Theatre has just announced that the company is saying farewell at the end of the year to six of its dancers: Waangenga Blanco, Daniel Riley,...
View Article30 years of sixty five thousand. Bangarra Dance Theatre
13 June 2019. Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Bangarra Dance Theatre is 30 years old this year and its latest program, 30 years of sixty five thousand, celebrates that anniversary. It also...
View ArticleAustralian Dance Awards 2018 and 2019
The recipients of Australian Dance Awards for 2018 and 2019 were announced on 8 December. The announcement was streamed by Ausdance National in order to manage the various restrictions on travel,...
View ArticleFirestarter. The story of Bangarra
Firestarter, documenting the origins and rise of Bangarra Dance Theatre, is filled with emotion—from joy to sadness and everything in between. But leaving the emotions to one side for the moment, I...
View ArticleSandSong. Bangarra Dance Theatre
11 June 2021, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House SandSong. Stories from the Great Sandy Desert begins with some black and white footage that is instantly confrontational. Moving sharply from one event...
View ArticleDance diary. September 2021
San Francisco Dance Film Festival In September I had the pleasure of acting as moderator for an online discussion of Firestarter. The story of Bangarra. Firestarter will be shown at the San Francisco...
View ArticleFrances Rings. A new direction
The recent news from Bangarra Dance Theatre that Frances Rings will take on the artistic directorship of Bangarra from 2023, when Stephen Page retires from the role, has been received with positive...
View ArticleSeason’s greetings & the ‘best of’ 2012
Thank you to those who have logged on to my website over the past year, especially those who have kept the site alive with their comments. I wish you the compliments of the season and look forward to...
View ArticleAustralian Dance Awards 2014
The annual Australian Dance Awards were announced in Sydney last night in a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House hosted by Frances Rings and Kip Gamblin. My report for The Canberra Times necessarily...
View ArticleLore. Bangarra Dance Theatre
9 July 2015, Canberra Theatre It would be hard to find two such disparate works as the two that make up lore, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest program curated by the company’s artistic director,...
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