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 →
Review: Matrix (Expressions Dance Company & Beijing Dance / LDTX)
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 →
What’s On: Matrix (Expressions Dance Company, Beijing Dance/LDTX & QPAC)
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 →
What’s On: The Dinner Party (Expressions Dance Company)
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 →
What’s On: Everyday Requiem (Expressions Dance Company)
Richard Causer and Brian Lucas, photographed by Dylan Evans. In collaboration with the Australian Voices, Expressions Dance Company will premiere Everyday Requiem at QPAC on October 12; a “touching, poignant work, full of humour, romance and heartbreaking moments, as we follow The Old Man (played by acclaimed Brisbane performer Brian Lucas) through his memories... Continue Reading →
REVIEW: 4Seasons (Expressions Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company, QPAC)
Alana Sargent and Ivan CHAN in Natalie Weir's '4Seasons', photographed by Mak Where? QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre When? June 14-22 Expressions Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong), and Queensland Performing Arts Centre present a breathtaking triple bill of new contemporary works, filled with powerful imagery and messages about our humanity and its impacts.... Continue Reading →
GIVEAWAY: 4Seasons (Expressions Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company, QPAC)
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 →
REVIEW: Converge (Expressions Dance Company)
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 →