FORM is delighted to introduce Vicki Van Hout as our resident blogger since 2013. Over the coming year Vicki will be blogging and tweeting for FORM about all things dance. Follow the musings of Vicki through the performance world as she informs you about what’s happening and what not to miss.
I squeezed my bike into the too tiny cubicle of an elevator and pressed the button for the fifth floor, the remnants of anxiety evident in the blasphemous negotiation of…
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It’s absolutely cavernous and every available space is filled with movement. Bodies trapped forever in light. Be warned, this is not an experience that can be had in one sitting….
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Image: Prudence Upton I was trawling through YouTube for Mark Morris vids in order to recapture the feeling from last week’s performance at the Opera House. You know how it…
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Image: John McDermott This last Saturday I had the amazing good fortune to speak to Shona McCullagh for Dance Circle who was in Sydney with New Zealand Dance Company to…
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Image: Gregory Lorenzutti Raghav and the Damned Butterflies. The second instalment of Dance Circle was designed to celebrate and illuminate the recent season of Tukre’, Raghav Handa’s first full-length solo…
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Image: Ana Otero photograph by Simone Coleman I am a Gong Girl. Well really a Dapto Dog. It is nearly a week since I fulfilled a dream dear to me:…
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A seminar on The Role of the Critic and Discourse in Dance took place as one of three sessions on the second day of a three day national forum on…
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Image courtesy of ArtsHub Dance Massive over and done with, I flew back to Sydney to replenish my burgeoning career as an academic-in-waiting; as novice university student at Macquarie. Had…
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Image: Lucy Parakhina It could all go pear shaped. It’s Sunday and I’m excited. I haven’t enjoyed enough sleep but I’m prepared to set the scene, by inserting hundreds of…
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Image: Heidrun Löhr I am sitting in front of my laptop monitor, watching the thin blue line that indicates a render in progress, slowly progress. It is frustrating and I…
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Image by Vsevelod Vlaskine A week ago I trekked to Sydney University Rex Cramphorn studio, the new location for Tess de Quincey’s Improlab events for 2015, after nearly 10 years…
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Image: Prudence Upton Movement- lubricant for the masses. The term ‘social dance’ conjures specific images; court dances with buckled belts and shoes on display, the Lindy Hop with hijinks and…
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