By Deborah Jones In 1964, social critic and academic Donald Horne wrote a book about Australia called The Lucky Country, a term he did not intend as a compliment. It was more dumb luck than anything more elevated that enabled the nation’s success, he argued. The phrase, however, caught on here and is used by
By Michael Crabb The pandemic has presented dance artists everywhere with financial and creative challenges that no amount of resilience can easily overcome. It presents an existential threat that, even with the arrival of vaccines, shows no sign of vanishing any time soon. If you can’t make dances and perform them for audiences, what in
By Malcolm Tay When PheNoumenon premiered in December 2019, T.H.E Dance Company tore down the usual border between performers and spectators. Within the Esplanade Theatre Studio’s performance space, viewers could wander amid the action or sit on the floor undisturbed in islets outlined by tape. Punctuating the space were craggy heaps of orange cloth, from