Chunky Move is Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company. Located in the Sturt Street arts precinct, the Chunky Move theatre is one of Melbourne’s hidden gems. As we ventured into the building, I realised that I had actually been there before for…
Get your dance-on and see four playful dance works which will delight and entertain you as a team of highly-trained students from the state’s premier full-time Bachelor dance degree show off their wares in their mid-year show ‘Dance ON‘. Tucked…
Blood on the dancefloor. Bare flesh exposed in battle for life. Tongue-in-cheek dance games with cacti. If this gets your pulse racing, you cannot miss Sydney Dance Company’s latest creation, CounterMove, at MTC’s Southbank Theatre. The Sydney-based company’s double bill…
I’ve always wanted to be able to dance. After a few too many wines and in the dark depths of a dingy dive bar, I’m happy to give it a shot, but there’s something quite magical about being in the…
Is modern dance made for laughs? Can you laugh out loud during a dance show on the choreographer’s invitation? To this, and other questions, Stephanie Lake and third year dance students at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the…
‘microLandscapes‘ is not your average art show. It is intense. Gripping. Entertaining. Playing as part of the Next Wave Festival, ‘microLandscapes’ is a unique collaborative exhibit that features original video and sound design, sculpture, and performance art. It features Perth-based dance…
What to do on a wet, miserable Friday night where alcohol is banned due to impending sporting activities but this girl just wants to have fun? I’ll tell ya. A bootylicious Beyonce dance class with Bey Dance. The clever concept has taken off,…
Hoop earrings, check! Glow sticks, check!! Reebok high tops, check!!! White denim, check!!!! I ticked off most of my mental list of 90s fashion must haves before I’d even crossed the foyer of Trak. Obviously I’m not the only one excited…
Listen up dance fans, there’s something worth celebrating in St Kilda. Last night the Melbourne Ballet Company announced announced their new residency at the Alex Theatre on Fitzroy Street with the contemporary piece ‘The Veil of Maya’. The Veil is the first chapter…
Culture Jam events are something special, they push past the everyday into an experience that is part game, part experiment, part let’s get weird. I have been lucky enough to attend a number of the Culture Jam happenings over the past two years, and every…