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 …