Bad Nature for Brisbane Festival at The Powerhouse Theatre, photographed by David Kelly A jaw-dropping collaboration between Brisbane’s Australasian Dance Collective and The Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, and HIIIT, Bad Nature was a transportive new work about the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world. Photographed by David... Continue Reading →
Review: Blue (Australasian Dance Collective)
Sam Hall, Riannon McLean, and Lily Potger (front) in Natalie Weir's When Time Stops, photographed by David Kelly Australasian Dance Collective celebrated their 40th anniversary with a triple bill of contemporary dance works that honoured the company's heritage and looked to its future, showcasing the versatility and strength of the company’s artists in an outstanding... Continue Reading →
Review: Halcyon (Australasian Dance Collective)
Lily Potger, photographed by David Kelly Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) has premiered Halcyon, a new contemporary dance work by Jack Lister, at the Brisbane Powerhouse for a limited season. Seeking to immerse the audience in a stylistic realm of intrigue and glamour, Halcyon drew inspiration from crime noir and the golden age of Hollywood and... Continue Reading →
Review: Salamander (Brisbane Festival & Northshore)
Image credit: Atmosphere Photography The headline show of Brisbane Festival 2023, Salamander brought together contemporary dancers from Brisbane's Australasian Dance Collective with guest artists and international collaborators to produce a multifaceted spectacle on an ambitiously large scale. Lead by director and choreographer Maxine Doyle and renowned designer Es Devlin, Salamander combined dance, song, poetry, and... Continue Reading →
Review: Lucie In the Sky (Australasian Dance Collective)
Chimene Steele-Prior and Lucie, photographed by David Kelly Warning: Drones, strobe lighting, haze and occasional high sound pressure levels. Australasian Dance Collective brought dancers and drones together as onstage equals with their new contemporary dance work Lucie In the Sky, which made its world premiere at the QPAC Playhouse in May. Based in Brisbane, ADC continues... Continue Reading →
Review: THREE 2.0 (Australasian Dance Collective)
Australasian Dance Collective artists perform Cass Mortimer Eipper’s Limbic. Photographed by David Kelly. After the season was postponed earlier in the year due to flood damage at QPAC, Australasian Dance Collective opened their second iteration of THREE at the Brisbane Powerhouse, a triple bill of new works from three different choreographers, all created in collaboration... Continue Reading →
What’s On: THREE 2.0 (Australasian Dance Collective)
Image supplied by Australasian Dance Collective THREE 2.0 13 -16 July 2022 Brisbane Powerhouse After the cancellation of their QPAC season due to the impacts of flooding, Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) have announced the rescheduling of their mainstage performance season of THREE 2.0 at the Brisbane Powerhouse. THREE is an annual curated collection of commissions,... Continue Reading →
What’s On: Forgery (Australasian Dance Collective, QPAC & Brisbane Festival)
Photo by David Kelly, edited by Alisdair Macindoe Forgery 22 September - 2 October 2021 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank What happens when a computer has creative control of six dancers? The theatre darkens and the lights come up on a performance that is completely unknown - for not just the audience, but the dancers... Continue Reading →