Review: Bad Nature (Australasian Dance Collective, Club Guy & Roni, Studio Boris Acket, HIIIT, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse)

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 →

29 Sep 2025 0

What’s On: King George Square Showdown (Common People Dance Project & Museum of Brisbane)

Image credit: Claudia Baxter King George Square Showdown 4pm, 27 September 2025 King George Square, Brisbane City Grab your leg warmers and slip into your sequins for Brisbane’s ultimate dance battle! Join Common People Dance Project as they cut some moves on the city’s biggest dancefloor for a free, all-in, feel-good dance showdown in front... Continue Reading →

23 Sep 2025 0

What’s On: The Next 14 Seconds (Phluxus2 Dance Collective)

Image by Jade Ellis Photography, Arabella Walker and Sean Dowling Design The Next 14 Seconds 28 - 29 November 2024 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank Quicker than an intake of breath our universe hurled itself into existence. Hot. Dense. A single point moving at unimaginable speeds, stretching, and expanding towards being, towards discovering, understanding, knowing,... Continue Reading →

26 Nov 2024 0

What’s On: Dance24 Festival (Metro Arts)

Image credit: Marnie Vaughn Dance24 22 May - 1 June 2024 Metro Arts, West Village, West End A celebration of dance and creativity, Dance24 is set to take centre stage over two weeks at Metro Arts. The event serves as a testament to the transformative power of dance, igniting inspiration and connection among industry professionals,... Continue Reading →

15 May 2024 0

What’s On: ITEM (Dance Masala & Metro Arts)

Image credit: Julian Palma ITEM 17 - 19 August 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Brisbane’s Dance Masala Bollywood Dance Company flips the script on Indian idealised romance and storytelling tropes with ITEM, a knowing love letter to the iconic institution of Bollywood. Inspired by personal letters, messages and interviews collected from hundreds... Continue Reading →

18 Jul 2023 0

What’s On: Hold Me Closer Tony Danza (The Farm & Metro Arts)

Hold Me Closer Tony Danza 24 - 28 January 2023 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Recommended for audiences aged 18+ A commonly misheard song lyric contains a deeper proposition about how we form meaning and a provocation that perhaps our understanding of the world is intrinsically flawed. Presented by Metro Arts, Hold Me... Continue Reading →

12 Jan 2023 0

Review: BUNKER (Metro Arts)

Image credit: Stewart Tyrell Content warnings: BUNKER contains coarse language, heightened psychological states, haze / smoke effects, loud music, and strobe lighting effects. Recommended for audiences aged 15+. What would you do if you received an alert that your world was ending? Who would you call? Where would you go, and what would you take... Continue Reading →

7 Nov 2022 0

What’s On: Bunker (Metro Arts)

Image credit: Stewart Tyrell Bunker 19 - 22 October 2022 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts, West End Exploring the physical threat of virtual alarm, Bunker is a bold new intermedial dance work led by internationally renowned dance choreographer, Lisa Wilson and techno-troublemaker, Nathan Sibthorpe. It’s 8:07am on January 13, 2018. Hawaii has just issued a... Continue Reading →

18 Oct 2022 0

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 →

25 Jul 2022 0

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 →

8 May 2022 0

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 →

8 Aug 2021 0

Review: INDEX Walking Tour (Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance)

Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance’s Independent Dance Exchange (INDEX) is a platform to support the development and sharing of new dance works in development by local artists, and the INDEX walking tour was a unique and enjoyable way to experience a diverse series of four dance works in one evening, each presented in a different... Continue Reading →

4 Mar 2020 0