As part of its 70th anniversary season, English National Ballet celebrates its history with three specially curated gala performances at the London Coliseum on 17 and 18 January 2020.
Double Delicious is a sumptuous storytelling and culinary experience from the creators of the critically acclaimed The Serpent’s Table (2014). Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) brings together five storytellers to share the secrets behind the dishes that have proved significant in their lives. Catch Double Delicious at Abbotsford Convent from 27 Feb – 1 March 2020.
A smorgasbord of creative events and performances are set to tour Victoria’s regional cities and towns in 2020, including hip-hop, ballet, theatre, orchestras and children’s shows. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley has announced the latest round of the Andrews Labor Government’s Touring Victoria program, with nearly $600,000 helping nine grant recipients take 160 creative activities to 63 destinations across Victoria.
You are here in this place where the eels lay down and the cars light up and the McDonald’s M is the biggest moon in the sky. Parramatta. Summertime. Early in the evening. ENCOUNTER is your invitation to the neighbourhood. ENCOUNTER, directed by Emma Saunders, was launched as part of Sydney Festival 2020. This en masse, site-specific work of joy which will run as a FREE event from 10-12 January 2020, in Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta. ENCOUNTER explores the everyday extraordinariness of being young and being in this place, from Parramatta, Western Sydney to the Bega valley, on the NSW South Coast.
After a wildly successful first OBOC in North-America and an equally successful return of the OBOC to Amsterdam in 2019, the OBOC 2020 will take place in both North-America and Europe again this year: from 22 June – 4 July in Montréal and from 25 July – 4 August in Amsterdam.
Queensland dancers have the opportunity to participate in this year's open Masterclass series taught by industry professionals aimed at helping dancers to prepare for freework in examinations and also prepare those taking part in the Jacqueline Morland Awards 2020.
REACTOR will premiere at Mona Foma, January 2020. It is an immersive, interactive dance work that allows the audience to be in the controlling seat. Dancers respond to directions given to them by participating audience members. The dancer will be ‘controlled’...or is the audience the real puppet in this experiment of human nature?
Dance will be back in full force at Adelaide Festival 2020 with an enticing program commencing in Febuary. Established in 1973, it is Australia’s first capital city arts venue and hosts more than one million people annually. As well as presenting theatre, dance, music, and exhibitions, Adelaide Festival Centre creates diverse festivals to inspire, challenge, educate, and entertain.
Having delighted audiences of more than 100,000 around the world with tours including Japan, Paris, and Spain, Le Corsaire returns to the London Coliseum (January 8-14). The only UK company to perform the complete work, English National Ballet’s production was staged by Anna-Marie Holmes and features sets by Hollywood designer Bob Ringwood, and a sweeping score performed live by English National Ballet Philharmonic.
Stand by to once again feel the might and power of Jason Coleman’s highly charged and outrageously entertaining world-class new show “ALL ABOARD”. The show will run at Rosebud Memorial Hall, Rosebud VIC from Fri Jan 3 - Thu Jan 23, 2020.
Following the successful premiere of the first calisthenics theatre show AMAZING GRACE in 2018, Manilla Street Productions is bringing a new show to the National Theatre from 31st January 2020.
Nominations were announced today for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2019, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Monday 20 January 2020 at 7pm at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre.
The 48th Prix de Lausanne jury panel will be presided by Frédéric Olivieri, Director of the Scala in Milan and Prize Winner of the Prix de Lausanne 1977. Among the artistic collaborators, Nicolas Le Riche, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet and actual Director of the Royal Swedish Ballet, will be the coach for the male candidates’ variations. During the Interlude, the performance will be the 3rd edition of the Partner School Choreographic Project, choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti, with 26 of the world’s best students reunited in Montreux for a unique creation, as well as a performance by dancers from the Royal Ballet School of London. The registrations for the 2nd edition of the Summer Intensive – European Preselection are open.
Following the announcement by the National Council of the Australian Dance Council – Ausdance Incorporated (Ausdance National) that the organisation would be wound up, an alternative option to maintain the organisation was proposed to the board by members of the Association.
Former Principal of Royal New Zealand Ballet, English National Ballet, and Royal Danish Ballet, Martin James has become Patron of bbodance Australasia, the main international presence of bbodance, which celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2020.
Recognised as one of the most exciting artists working in contemporary dance today, Hofesh Shechter is renowned for creating his own genre. Part dance, part gig, part theatre and wholly original, his work has its own unique and instantly identifiable voice. Spectacularly bold and ambitious, his creations are at once comic, bleak and beautiful, evoking a world at odds with itself, full of anarchic energy and violent comedy.
The Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season returns to screens across Australia with a brand-new program featuring twelve breathtaking live performances of world-class opera and ballet direct from London’s 2019/2020 season.
Australia’s greatest musical theatre performer Anthony Warlow will revisit one of his most acclaimed roles, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, in the 25th anniversary production which will open at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August next year. Tickets for this sumptuous musical in Sydney are on sale from Friday 29 November.
Internationally acclaimed choreographer and former Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), David Bintley CBE has today become Vice President of bbodance. Bintley agreed to join the 90-year-old organisation after watching bbodance students perform at their biggest annual event, Dance Days. "After that performance, I'm going to have to say yes," he stated at the time.
Soloist with The Australian Ballet, Jill Ogai, took centre stage when she was announced the 2019 Rising Star winner of the Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards. Jill will receive a $20,000 cash prize from Principal Partner Telstra in recognition of her exceptional ballet talent and outstanding achievements this year. Senior artist, Marcus Morelli took out the 2019 Telstra People’s Choice Award for the second time.
Shaun Parker Company are currently seeking experienced versatile and professional contemporary dancers for a range of projects across 2020 and 2021. Interested applicants must be graduates of a tertiary dance course or equivalent and be of advanced technical standard and Australian or New Zealand citizens. Professional, experienced dancers need only apply. Sydney-based dancers preferred. Minimum age 21 years (unless otherwise agreed).
The Secret Garden returns to Australia for a 25th anniversary production which reunites the original Broadway creative team of director Susan H Schulman, choreographer Michael Lichtefeld and designer Heidi Ettinger. Based on the popular literary classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this sumptuous musical will open at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August 2020.
This festive season, Cirque Stratosphere – a spectacular new circus from the creators of CIRCUS 1903 (2016) and last summer’s smash-hit The Illusionists: Direct from Broadway, will transform the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall into a futuristic space-age utopia for a strictly limited season from 24-29 December 2019 before heading to Arts Centre Melbourne from 4-13 January 2020.
VIEW Dance Challenge offers young dancers a fresh, new exciting experience in Australian dance competitions. They’re a passionate team of professional dancers who have been established for many years. Their main aim it to provide you with the most enjoyable, exciting and memorable dance competitions in Australia next year! They want to be a part of your overall experience as a dancer and to see you thrive and grow! The tour dates are throughout October in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
Starring Annie Aitken, Debora Krizak and Deone Zanotto with direction and choreography by Madison Lee, Richard Harris’ Stepping Out is set to make its debut its Australian professional premiere at Chapel Off Chapel from 15 April to 3 May 2020.
Spark Youth Dance Company has exploded into the Melbourne arts scene in the last few years, featuring youth creating dance and a culture of bettering mental health through dance. Auditions are being held for Spark Youth Dance Company (SYDC) on Sunday 15th and Thursday 19th December at Rosebud Memorial Hall in preparation for a huge new era for the company in its fifth year.
It is more than forty years since Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg first met and began a collaboration that would change the course of musical theatre history with their musicals Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. In June 2020, leading stars from Broadway, the West End and Australia will gather to celebrate these unparalleled musicals and their writers in DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
Adelaide Cabaret Festival turns 20 in 2020 and we couldn’t wait to give you a tease of next year’s star-studded program with 6 early release shows announced. The cabaret festival gets underway from 5-20 June 2020.
One of Australia’s most prestigious drama school’s is hitting the road this summer, offering children, young people and adults in Melbourne a taste of its world-renowned teaching through its summer holiday program. For the first time, NIDA is bringing their classes to Frankston, as well as St Kilda, Abbotsford, and their base in Southbank.
Cats The Movie is almost here! Starring James Corden, Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Rebel Wilson AND MORE! The film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s global stage-musical sensation is coming to cinemas December 2019.
