Dance & ballet news

• Working With Children review – there's no theatre-maker quite like Nicola Gunn

  04-09-2018 20:00
  The Lawler, Southbank Theatre, Melbourne
  What are we trying to protect children from and who decides? Gunn’s exploration of this question is a startling, multistranded workPerformance-maker Nicola Gunn has long been respected as one of the finest artists to come out of Melbourne’s independent theatre community, but her new show, Working With Children, may just be the work that brings her a much wider audience.
  A Melbourne Theatre Company commission with an international tour already
  
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• 'I'd never seen anything like it': Alex Katz on dance titan Paul Taylor

  04-09-2018 17:47
  Artist Alex Katz collaborated for more than 20 years with Paul Taylor, who has died aged 88. He remembers their quiet and once combative partnershipI remember when I first saw Paul Taylor dance. He was at Hunter College, New York, and I was with the critic Edwin Denby. I’d never seen anything like it before. I was really surprised. At the time, Robert Rauschenberg was doing a set with Paul and he wanted Paul to dance with a table on his back. Paul told him he wouldn’t do it and Rausc
  
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