Private View | Restless Dance Theatre
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Private View | Restless Dance Theatre

Private View is a work that encourages us to dream wildly and let others dream wildly of the love, desire, kindness, lust, and affection we all deserve. It shows us its dreams and gently invites us to remove the barricades and barriers we have within our own. And, with every dream it liberates, I know it changes our world for the better. It’s just bloody lovely, is what it is. 

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Lighting the Dark | DanceNorth
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Lighting the Dark | DanceNorth

As the performers are presented, they are each warmly hugged and welcomed by Chris Dyke—communicating a sense of the artists as people who need to work closely with and trust their fellow dancers. It’s wonderful to then watch those individuals transform from initial ‘chatter,’ and playfulness, to performing impressive dance—here a literal lighting of the dark stage, when the artists ‘switch on’ their performance skills.

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Be Iconic | Fashion Collab & Brisbane Festival
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Be Iconic | Fashion Collab & Brisbane Festival

Be Iconic signified the beauty of diversity and inclusivity and freedom by redefining the runway, bringing incredible artists and community to the creative vision. This show delivered on its promise wonderfully - it was inclusive, adaptive, sustainable, and allowed people to express their individuality freely. 

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Cost of Living | Queensland Theatre
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Cost of Living | Queensland Theatre

Co-Director Priscilla Jackman has been relentless in pursuing the idea of staging Cost of Living in Australia for the first time when she first stumbled on the script in 2019! Working with Co-Director and star Dan Daw, the two powerhouses of the theatre world have crafted a production that goes beyond how a disability is perceived, putting the focus front and centre on the interdependence of individuals, both disabled and able bodied.

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Obstacle | Grace Longwill
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Obstacle | Grace Longwill

What a body does, what theatre does, what doing a body and doing theatre looks like are all for her to decide. She has created a space that is accessible to her in every sense and while this may disrupt the viewers sense of “good” and “polished” theatre, she doesn’t apologise for it and we (or at least I) don’t have a single complaint about it.

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Sleep and the City | Emma-June Curik
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Sleep and the City | Emma-June Curik

The performance was a thought-provoking experience that left me with a whirlwind of emotions. It combined the three things that tend to lead to the best original work‌: raw vulnerability, education on a misunderstood topic, and catharsis. This combination seemed to result in a unique sense of community and belonging that I hadn’t expected.

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Club Undercover | DIDG and Goddess Naavikaran
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Club Undercover | DIDG and Goddess Naavikaran

We went from seeing adapted traditional First Nations culture to a psychedelic journey to Club Culture using the power of dance and our ideas of what ceremony is transformed. So, it may seem like I am fangirling but it’s not just inspiration porn, its inclusion at its best and I loved it.

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Betsy & I | indelabilityarts
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Betsy & I | indelabilityarts

Language is how we relate ideas to each other, and not having language for an experience can be as good as total isolation in it. Through learning the words for her experience, Ivy was able to reach out to those around her and say, “This is who I am. This life is mine, and it’s not yours to define for me”.

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Sheltered | Kathryn Hall
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Sheltered | Kathryn Hall

Kathryn Hall’s Sheltered is a charming, clever, cheeky, and compelling show (beautifully directed by Andi Snelling). Kathryn is disarmingly honest, speaking directly to the audience about the difficulties of leaving home, and establishing an independent life, while living with cerebral palsy.

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