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Dance, Festivals

Colossus Review (Sydney Festival)

Martin Portus

How humans perform in or outside the group herd is a powerful theme ideal for dance. With Colossus at the …

Dance, Festivals

Frontera and Two Crews review (Sydney Festival)

Martin Portus

January 8 and 9, 2020 A crazed rush of refugees entrapped by borders of light and a joyous outburst of …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Sylvia review (The Australian Ballet)

Martin Portus

Many have praised Leo Delibes’ dramatic score for Sylvia – Tchaikovsky loved it – but no choreographer has quite got …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Bonachela/Obarzanek review (Sydney Dance Company)

Martin Portus

Thanks to all those pushy, once brazen young baby-boomers, many Australian arts organisations are now marking their 40th or even …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

SDC Triple Bill dance review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney)

Martin Portus

Grimy zombies getting down to the pulsating beat of late night parties was the audience favourite at the opening of Sydney …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

King dance review (Seymour Centre, Sydney)

Martin Portus

We should see more of Shaun Parker. Five years in the making, his outstanding new, all-male dance work was over within …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Spartacus ballet review (Sydney Opera House)

Martin Portus

Remade as a muscular, heroic underdog for our times, this new Spartacus is crisp and compelling storytelling. Despite Khachaturian’s glorious, ever-shifting …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Forever and Ever dance review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney)

Martin Portus

Antony Hamilton’s new work is like some frenzied techno party, with fantastical costumes, lasers and colour flashes, dancers forged into fractured robots – it all makes you wonder what they’re on. …

Musicals, Reviews, Stage

Candide review (Sydney Opera House)

Martin Portus

They’ve been rewriting this now applauded Leonard Bernstein musical ever since he created it back in the 1950s.   Famed …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Ab (Intra) dance review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney)

Martin Portus

After a decade running the Sydney Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela’s new full-length work finally proves how much more he is …

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