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ADC’s Three is back as part of OHM Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse!

This year’s instalment of THREE features world-premieres from award-winning choreographer, Jenni Large, and leading multidisciplinary artist, Alisdair Macindoe, as well as an incredible solo work by independent dance maker, Amber McCartney. In her first commission for ADC, acclaimed choreographer, Jenni Large, will be joined by long- time collaborator, Anna Whitaker, a composer with a palate for experimental, acousmatic works. Large's work is described as a fusion of the personal, ...

Salamander is coming to the 2023 Brisbane Festival!

Time to go, Time to wake up Time to stand up and hold each other before it is too late Before there is nothing left Do we fight and stay? Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?   //     A dance-theatre visual feast, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded ...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Movie Review

Mike (Channing Tatum) hooks up with Max as she rebounds from a messy separation from her mega-rich husband and she carts him away to London for a mysterious job. The employment turns out to be revitalising a theatre that said husband used to own but that now belongs to Max. The night of passion with Mike has ignited feelings inside her not known before.   //   Once the film arrives in the United Kingdom. it shifts to being a theatre piece with all the bureaucratic ...

Larissa McGowan’s Cher is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!

Choreographer, dancer and fan, Larissa McGowan uses Cher’s iconic figure as a totem for exploring the reinvention of the universal aging female artist.   //   Cher is an inspired mash-up of gender, power and popular culture; a self-discovery of epic proportions; a headfirst dive into the artist’s path to immortality. “After a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are cockroaches and Cher.” Jimmy James Cher 16 - 19 November 2022 Brisbane Powerhouse w...

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Terrain is returning to QPAC this August!

Choreographed by Frances Rings, Terrain is a breathtaking exploration of our largest salt lake. The nine-part performance evokes the power of body and land converging to bring spirit to place. Stand with us and feel the ancestral ties that bind people to Country: a rich cultural spine stretching through the generations. Watch the waters rise and fall as we reconnect with the energy of land and the resilient spirit of the people who care for its future.   //   Featur...

An American in Paris is coming to Brisbane this January!

Hailed as a tour de force for its inventive choreography, the four-time Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical tells the entrancing story of a young American soldier and a beautiful French girl, set against the iconic backdrop of the most romantic city in the world. Inspired by the Academy Award®-winning MGM film, acclaimed director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon brings the enchantment and magic of Paris alive on stage with popular songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including “I ...

Circa’s Humans 2.0 is coming to QPAC

Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Can we ever find a perfect balance or is adapting to constant change the only way forward?   //   This next chapter of Circa’s internationally acclaimed Humans is a tightly woven choreography of bodies, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik and ...

RED is coming to the Brisbane Festival!

Tens of thousands of years ago, a genetic mutation gave rise to red hair in humans. Now, like many, they are endangered.   //   Dancenorth uses the plight of its dancers as an allegory for a contracting world; a world where biodiversity is progressively being suffocated and silenced. Epic and intimate, RED illuminates the universal challenge of our survival. Time is running out. RED 8 - 12 September The Warehouse, Northshore, Hamilton www.brisbanefestival.com.au

Australasian Dance Collective is bring Three to QPAC this May!

Brisbane’s own rising star of the choreographic world, Jack Lister, fuses dance and visual art to create a stunning mainstage performance, Still Life. Inspired by the artworks of the 16th and 17th century Memento Mori movement, it serves as a touchstone of our own mortality, the beauty in decay and our relationship with time. Still Life embraces the dichotomy of the permanence of visual artworks against the impermanent nature of dance, creating a world of poignant conflict – ...

Aftermath is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this February!

A rousing aural, visual and sensory trip, Australasian Dance Collective and The Kite String Tangle’s Danny Harley hurtle us through a cascade of events towards a high-octane climax in Aftermath. Set to a searing new score by the acclaimed producer, vocalist and songwriter behind The Kite String Tangle, Aftermath opens into a haunting world of disquiet, both familiar and unfamiliar. Through a landscape of fragmented memories and imperfect recollection, we slowly piece together the ...