Bangarra's Horizon: a grand and beautiful vision

Kallum Goolang, Kassidy Waters and Daniel Mateo in Kulka by Sani Townson

Amberlilly Gorden, Lillian Banks and Bradley Smith in The Light Inside

Janaya Lamb and Daniel Mateo with Bangarra Dance Theatre in The Light Inside

Kassidy Waters and Bangarra Dance Theatre in The Light Inside

Lillian Banks and Bangarra Dance Theatre in The Light Inside

By Katie Lawrence, 15 June 2024

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“featuring feathers, flowing gauze skirts, glitter, ochre, aqueous blues and greens, textured wings”

Reviewed at Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney on 14 June 2024

Kulka (Sani Townson)

The Light Inside (Moss Te Ururangi Patterson, Deborah Brown)

Bangarra

Elizabeth Gadsby, Set Designer

Jennifer Irwin, Costume Designer

Karen Norris, Lighting Designer

Lillian Banks, Dancer

Daniel Mateo, Dancer

Janaya Lamb, Dancer

Go Gaga for Ohad Naharin's Decadance in Sydney

Chantal Nguyen, 7th January

Sydney Dance Company excels in Decadance, a rare chance for Australian audiences to see work by Ohad Naharin, founder of the Gaga method.

****1

Gifts of gold: Bangarra's SandSong

Chantal Nguyen, 11th June

Bangarra's first full-length work in three years is a treasure trove of cultural and historical insights about Australia's vast and mysterious Kimberley region. Not to be missed.

****1

Star dancers choosing questionable dances?

Chantal Nguyen, 27th August

Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg's combined star power transcend this mixed bag of contemporary and classical dance.

****1

History in the making: Bangarra's 30 years of sixty five thousand

Chantal Nguyen, 14th June

Bangarra celebrates its 30th anniversary, with the momentous return of Jiří Kylián's Stamping Ground to its Indigenous roots.

****1

Bangarra: The darkness between the stars

Chantal Nguyen, 16th June

Dark Emu is a beautifully choreographed dance response to Bruce Pascoe's award-winning book. In combining current debate with millenia-old living tradition, it is both topical and profoundly poetic.

****1

Michael Clark's Rock’n’roll Song has its Australian première

Chantal Nguyen, 30th January

The former wild child brings his acclaimed, and surprisingly pared back, triptych of modern dance to Sydney.

***11

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Katie Lawrence

Katie Lawrence has a background in ballet, jazz, and contemporary, and spent much of her adolescence in the dressing room of dance eisteddfods. She is still mildly triggered by the smell of hairspray. She is now a regular in Sydney's dance audience crowd and can often be found at Sydney Dance Company and Tanya Pearson adult classes.