Profiles
Rebuilding the Bridge: How Sara Pizzi Redefines Legibility in Dance
Tracing the thread from Blocks to Just Keep Waiting, Italian-born choreographer Sara Pizzi explains why the best contemporary art leaves room for multiple perspectives.
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Reviews
Scorched Earth: Luke Murphy’s Visceral Thriller Explores Land and Trauma
In a compelling fusion of psychological crime thriller and contemporary dance, Scorched Earth at Brisbane Powerhouse lays bare the tangled wounds of colonization, capital, and loss. Reviewed by Leila Lois.
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Features
Follow the Joy: Sarah Reich's Tap Dance Journey Around the World
A documentary follows tap dancer Sarah Reich across the globe, and finds that rhythm, grief, and human connection speak the same language.
Reviews
Inside the Cycle of Self-Silencing: Bharatanatyam Meets the Politics of Healing
Choreographer Yashashree Rajendra Chakole uses classical Indian dance and contemporary movement to critique systemic mental health care.
Happening Soon
The Devil's Fiddle, Danced
Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev on obsession, collaboration, and making Paganini "look cool" at the Linbury
Essays
What Chinese Dance Reveals About the Politics of Posture
From courtly sleeves to military uniforms, the body remembers what texts forget. An essay by Kari Fu.
Reviews
She Ritual : The Female Body as Archive, Offering, and Choreographic Site
Ling Huang's solo turns fan, rice, and red thread into physical restriction the body has to work against. Rainy J. reviews the performance.
Preview
What Remains: A Thematic Journey Through Brisbane Festival
What do we take from this life, this land, this community, and what do we leave behind? Leila Lois talks to Ebony Bott and the artists shaping her first Brisbane Festival programme (4–26 September, 2026) to find out.
Reviews
The Weight of Emptiness: A Review of Harper WANG’s Mo
Tianyi Li reviews Harper Wang's Mo, a dance film where emptiness becomes an active force, and the camera, shadow, and frame choreograph alongside the solitary performer.
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TUNE BACK (time)
This fall in Leipzig and Dresden, Germany, six performers move through loops, glitches, and half remembered images, tracing the body's back as the site where memory lives.
Features
Holding the Threads Together: Ballet Cymru at Forty
Leila Lois spends an afternoon in Newport to witness how a fiercely local, radically inclusive company is redefining classical ballet through the lens of Welsh heritage and contemporary bodies.