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The bowling green becomes a battlefield in Gold Coast based Gogi Dance Collective’s You Don’t Know Jack + Kitty, an homage to lawn bowls and its role in Australian culture and community, performed at New Farm Bowls Club as part of the Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance. The choreography used the whole space of the... Continue Reading →
Canberra-based Australian Dance Party performed Mine! in Queen Street Mall as part of Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, an engaging and visually exciting performance piece dealing with the proposed new mega-mines in Queensland. Originally commissioned for National Science Week ACT, Mine! Five dancers in brightly coloured jumpsuits and carrying boxes of Lego performed the work,... Continue Reading →
Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance 21 - 29 February, 2020 Various locations including Queens St Mall, Anzac Square, Bunyapa Park, New Farm Bowls Club, and Rumpus Room Shed Australia’s premier festival of contemporary dance takes over Brisbane for its fourth year with a citywide immersive showcase of art, creativity and storytelling; inviting people to discover,... Continue Reading →
Brisbane’s contemporary dance company have unveiled not only a new season, but a new name and new company artists as well. After 35 years as Expressions Dance Company, the Brisbane-based ensemble will now be known as Australian Dance Collective, Artistic Director Amy Hollingsworth announced at the launch of the 2020 season, with a focus on... Continue Reading →
Matrix is a collaboration between Expressions Dance Company and Beijing Dance / LDTX, an enthralling double bill of contemporary dance works by acclaimed choreographers Stephanie Lake and MA Bo. Created in only five weeks during a creative development in China, Matrix is performed by the twenty dancers of the two company ensembles, including guest dancer... Continue Reading →
Matrix 13 - 16 November 2019 Playhouse Theatre, QPAC Defined as a “cultural or social environment or context in which something develops”, Matrix is the result of an immersive creative development in Beijing in August and September, producing two new contemporary dance works by multi award-winning Australian choreographer, Stephanie Lake, and the highly-acclaimed Chinese choreographer,... Continue Reading →
The Dinner Party 10 - 18 May, 2019 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC Expressions Dance Company’s (EDC) The Dinner Party, which debuted to glowing reviews as The Host in 2015, returns for a second helping with a new cast, new character developments, and under the eye of the company’s new Artistic Director, Amy Hollingsworth. An elegant dinner party... Continue Reading →
Image by Dylan Evans featuring Alana Sargent, courtesy of Expressions Dance Company Where?QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre When?14-22 June, 2018 Expressions Dance Company, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company, and Queensland Performing Arts Centre co-present a compelling triple bill of new contemporary works, and Backstreet Brisbane has five (5) double passes to give away! Head... Continue Reading →
Ensemble in Richard Casuer's Imposters, photographed by FenLan Chuang Where? Queensland Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith University, South Bank When? March 10-17, 2018 Expressions Dance Company’s first production of 2018, Converge, is presented in partnership with the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU) and features four compelling new contemporary dance works from established and emerging Australasian choreographers. The... Continue Reading →
