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Icons - Seeing and Being Seen

To watch each of these dance icons relay their remarkable life stories through words and movement is to reflect on time’s river and the unperishable creative impulse. It’s also to participate in an act of seeing as fashioned by the filmmaker’s eye  Keep reading

Elma Kris appears on a rock in the ocean. Her right knee is bent and her right foot is lifted and flexed.

Obsidian Tear, Australian Ballet

Wayne McGregor knew immediately he wanted to ‘make a choreographic response’ when he attended the premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s brooding, densely contrapuntal symphonic poem ‘Nyx’ in 2011

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The MoveSmart Studio

Imagine for a moment your older self has lost all powers of mobility. You can’t get out of a chair, or stand unaided or step forward. Frailty is a sad fate in old age

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Still Stepping Out

Just as Mick Jagger is in no hurry to exit stage left, neither are many older dancers. Some are discovering or rekindling a love of ballet classes. Others are participating in community dance groups and appearing in productions. And older professional dancers are being sought for the ageless grace, nuance and wisdom they bring to the stage and screen

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