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.
Image by Andrew Malmo This last fortnight I saw two live performances. The Factory, at Parramatta Riverside Theatres, within a well-trodden format about hardship faced when navigating a new life in another country, is…
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Image: Dave Morgan Gentle pressure is administered, an opportunity is sought, identified and taken in a fraction of a second. Our eyes transfixed on thighs, knees, shins and pointed feet,…
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Image: Kay Armstrong A collaborative relationship is filled with unexpected possibility. The negotiation, the compromise, the new pathway and the final result produced, something bigger, representative of more than one’s…
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Image: MAU, Stones In Her Mouth This past weekend was a whirlwind of dance, three shows in as many days. Throw in a workshop and two post-show Q&As and my…
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Chris Bath – Dancing with the Stars Series 3, 2005 It has been many years since I dreamed of a future in dance, pirouetting across the floorboards of St Andrews…
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Last night I was buggered, finished work and made my way to Parramatta Riverside. Fell asleep, mouth agog, only to wake in a momentary state of total disorientation, just in…
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I’m writing under the guise of the semi recovered. I feel the muscles smart from self-imposed exertion. It is three days since my three-day foray into the land of pure…
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Image: Interplay, Wendell Teodoro These past weeks I have seen/experienced a lot of dance, six pieces in two venues. Two were dancer/choreographer solos and a duet (missing a partner) at…
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Image: Cristophe Canato Every now and again I get to see a work that reminds me why dance was/is an inevitable life choice, the sheer joy and pleasure that is…
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The Gary Lang NT Dance Company in rehearsals for MOKOI. Photographer: Naina Sen Location of present blog-the tropics. I have come to Darwin to experience the wet (season). I am…
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Credit: Maylei Hunt – Carl Tolentino and Thomas Kelly. “Dark Dream” choreographed by Thomas Kelly, Dance Bites 2013 presented by FORM Dance Projects It’s official, I’m a mentor. I have…
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Credit: Prue Upton – Shaun Parker & Company’s Am I I have managed to welcome in the New Year as I do time and again, with the same gung-ho, all…
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