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Women In Motion at West Bund, a partnership between the Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project and Kering to celebrate women’s creativity in dance and choreography, has been officially launched.

This autumn Tate Britain presents a new installation by SERAFINE1369, the London-based artist and dancer Jamila Johnson-Small.

With 2020 marking the 10th anniversary of the universally acclaimed classic Political Mother, Hofesh Shechter Company remounted POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED, a potent new version performed by Shechter II, their renowned apprentice company.

Exploring the challenges around presenting and preserving choreographic performance works in visual arts institutions, Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum is a major research partnership between the AGNSW, MUMA, NGV, Tate UK, and UNSW Sydney.

Bell Shakespeare will revive their popular 2020 production of Hamlet for their third season of 2021. The production received rave reviews before closing only one-and-a-half weeks after opening due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announce the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF). Throughout its rich, half-century history, the festival has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, and whose daring work pushes the envelope in unexpected ways.

Monumental is a new suite of works by Amrita Hepi that casts a central colonial figure within a continual sunrise... or is it a sunset? Through performance the monument is serenaded by sound and dance, then destroyed by paddles and cricket bats, and finally replaced by seven people.

Two of Los Angeles’ foremost cultural organizations—the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts—have teamed up with Chicago’s Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater to launch Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global free film series produced by and under the creative direction of LA-based Jacob Jonas The Company. 

V&A Dundee will next year show the first ever major exhibition on Michael Clark, the groundbreaking Scottish dancer and choreographer, curated and organised by Barbican Centre, London.

Campbelltown Arts Centre is proud to present a powerful program of contemporary dance and art as part of Sydney Festival 2021. C-A-C has commissioned two world premiere dance works by renowned performers Jasmin Sheppard and Rhiannon Newton, along with a much-anticipated exhibition SpaceYZ.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has announced its 2021 season, an ambitious hybrid of live and digital concerts responding to 2020 and welcoming a new musical era.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has announced its 2021 NSW Season, a diverse program of six live concert series, with a further Melbourne season to be announced in January. Celebrating the best of Baroque, the season will present Australian debut performances from international guest artists, an exciting theatrical collaboration with CIRCA Contemporary Circus and Australian premiere arrangements.

Bell Shakespeare has announced their 2021 season, which will mark the company’s return to the stage and live performance for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown in March. As Australia’s national touring theatre company and now in its 31st year, Bell Shakespeare will travel across the country with a diverse program including National Treasure John Bell and touring to over 26 regional areas across Australia

Musica non grata is the name of the grand opening concert, which took place at the State Opera on Sunday, 30 August 2020. This was an event launching both the new opera season and the four-year project of the same name dedicated to theatrical and musical works of authors persecuted by the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.

MPavilion, Open House Melbourne and Melbourne Music Week announced the 5 successful applicants for MERGE—a collaborative music and design initiative commissioned by MPavilion for Open House Melbourne’s July and MPavilion/Melbourne Music Week’s November 2020 program.

Starting June 22nd, the V&A is hosting a seven-day online celebration of all things Glastonbury. Coinciding with the weekend when the world-famous festival was due to celebrate its 50th year, the V&A has delved into its collections and asked for contributions from its curators to help fill your festival void.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has announced a new digital season commemorating 30 years of fearless artistic leadership from Richard Tognetti. Launching on Monday 15 June, the season will showcase Tognetti’s enduring legacy as a renowned performer, composer, director and as a creative force for the internationally celebrated Orchestra over the last 30 years.

To a full house and a standing ovation, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra was born 30 years ago on the stage of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. This November, the Brandenburg will present Vivaldi’s Four Seasons alongside Georg Philipp Telemann’s Water Music, presented in Sydney, Melbourne and Parramatta as the composers would have heard them when they were first performed.

The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks, Dancehouse and the Australia Council for the Arts today announced the eight artists and collectives who have been commissioned to make new works for the Keir Choreographic Award in March 2020. The winner of the prestigious Award will be chosen by a jury of five internationally renowned leaders in contemporary dance and receive a cash prize of $50,000.

When the surrealist designer Else Schiaparelli first saw a 17.47-carat Cartier pink diamond, she said this of the shade: “Bright, impossible, impudent, becoming, life giving… a shocking colour, pure and undiluted.” She branded the colour “Shocking Pink”. It is unsurprising that Phillip Adams—the Melbourne-based choreographer whose work might similarly be described as life giving, impudent, and shocking—has saturated his latest work Glory in bright pink.

For twigs, the biggest fear is not being authentic. Like Kate Bush or Björk, Benjamin Clementine or Tom Waits, she is one of those rare artists who are so completely, utterly themselves that they defy neat categorisation.

Saturday 18 November 1978, thousands of us were huddled under clear plastic sheets, doing what we could to keep the rain out. Darkness had fallen. We were waiting for David Bowie. It was Bowie’s first visit to Australia, the excitement was palpable and the crowd was counting down the minutes until he would appear on that stage.

Cue: Grace Jones leaps off the Eiffel Tower—Bond is in pursuit—parachute deployed; lands safely, and makes a successful escape from the MI6 agent. The scene from A View to a Kill (1985), where Jones plays May Day opposite Roger Moore’s James Bond, was a moment of pure movie drama, it also perfectly encapsulated her mysterious and fearless oeuvre.

“A change of speed, a change of style” sang Ian Curtis in the opening line of New Dawn Fades: a track from Joy Division’s first album, Unknown Pleasures, released in 1979. By accident or design, this visceral debut captured the essence of Manchester at a juncture in its social and cultural history.

Phillip Adams BalletLab is a company defined by collaboration, not because its collaborators make the work, but because the collaboration is the work. It is a site for expression and experimentation, for the unheard and the unspeakable. The company’s practice enacts a dialogue between artists, ideas, research, sound, movement, fashion and architecture.

Electro/fashion/art duo The Black Soft have only been around for three years, but their influence and attitude feels much greater than their relative age. To listen to Vimeo’s description of the pair one might assume they had spent decades forging an identity.

Alexander Briger, Founder and Artistic Director of the Australian World Orchestra (AWO), sees the conductor as both an artist and a craftsman whose role is to shape sound.