Toronto Raptors’ Norman Powell goes up for a shot with Boston Celtics’ Kemba Walker in tow during an NBA conference semifinal playoff game, Sept. 11, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
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The successes of the NBA’s #WholeNewGame provide important lessons for performing artists about audience investment and hybrid digital-live events.
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The tradition of performing in a mask, from china to France, shows how it can be just as evocative and entertaining.
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Hip-hop got its start as a political artistic force in the streets of Bronx. In the age of coronavirus, that same force has taken to the internet.
These boys danced in a very empty Times Square amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Whether they’re holding hands and singing Ring Around the Rosie or posing during a TikTok video, kids connect to each other and find joy through dance.
Few people stroll the Naviglio Grande canal, one of the favorite spots for night life in Milan, Italy, March 10, 2020, when Italy entered its second day under a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19.
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The nightlife sector was operating in crisis mode since before the current pandemic, and global strategizing for the future of after-dark industries is already well underway.
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In the 1930s, it was modern dance that taught Melburnians how to perform personal hygiene. There are still lessons to be learnt from this history and the legacy of Sonia Revid.
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This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
Historically, the body and movement have been widely disregarded within psychotherapy. But times are changing, as a growing movement of somatic and dance therapies are gaining scientific credibility.
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Dance therapy is effective in treating depression, improving memory and neuroplasticity in older adults and improving executive function in those with Parkinson’s disease.
Learning how we respond to rhythm can lead to therapeutic applications.
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Why and how do we groove? Researchers are investigating how we respond to music, with applications for therapy.
Ayaha Tsunaki and the ensemble in Johan Inger’s Carmen at this year’s Adelaide Festival.
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In this danced-through reimagining of the world’s most-popular opera, we are pulled into the characters’ inner turmoil.
Dada Masilo’s Giselle follows the ballet’s original story outline but changes it in clever ways.
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An unconventional take on Giselle is playing as part of this year’s Perth Festival.
The Collective of Black Artists (COBA) has been supporting African and Caribbean dance in Canada for 25 years.
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COBA, the Collective of Black Artists has been working to introduce Canadian audiences to African and Caribbean dances for 25 years.
Sunset is collaboration between freelance director and choreographer Maxine Doyle and Western Australia’s STRUT Dance, in association with Tura New Music.
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As part of the 2019 Perth Festival, dance-theatre performance Sunset takes place in a former men’s home on the banks of the Swan River.
Dust is a new show by far-north Queensland company Dancenorth, currently playing at the 2019 Sydney Festival.
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Dancenorth’s Dust explores a world on the brink of turning back to dust. Its themes are familiar in contemporary dance, but the show is replete with powerful images.
‘The biggest disco on the planet since 1979’: Dancing Grandmothers take the stage in Adelaide.
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Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ah tnravelled up and down her native land, videotaping older women dancing.
A Quiet Evening Of Dance is a program from the “most controversial ballet choreographer in international ballet”
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However jagged, industrial and shapeless an evening of Forsythe choreography may seem to an eye used to Swan Lake, it is always grounded in ballet.
Vicki Van Hout in plenty serious TALK TALK.
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Two new dance works allow the public to engage in a conversation around constitutional recognition and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
Dancers perform in Bangarra’s premiere production of Dark Emu.
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Bangarra’s Dark Emu is a response to Bruce Pascoe’s book of the same name. But it doesn’t embrace the full potential of its source’s game-changing impact.
Gavin Webber and Kate Harman in The Mathematics of Longing.
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In an ambitious new work of theatre and dance, performers read out mathematical theories then build scenes around them.
Nearly 70% of dance professionals are women, but none of Australia’s major dance companies has a female art director.
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Since 2017, only 13% of full-length works by Australia’s major dance companies have been choreographed by women.