Royal New Zealand Ballet, Te Ao M?rama?

A powerful work by Moss Te Ururangi Patterson.

Created for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 70th anniversary in 2023, Te Ao M?rama is a powerful work by Moss Te Ururangi Patterson.

Inspired by haka and executed with precision and strength from the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s male dancers, Te Ao M?rama is a striking and lasting addition to the company’s repertoire.

Te Ao M?rama embraces the strong M?ori culture that is celebrated in Aotearoa.

Restless Dance Theatre, Seeing Through Darkness?

Created by Restless Dance Theatre, Australia’s leading dance company working with artists with and without disability, Seeing Through Darkness embodies the beauty of difference.

Seeing Through Darkness is an evocative dance work directed by Michelle Ryan, inspired by the raw intensity of Georges Rouault’s Expressionist paintings.

Rouault’s portrayal of the imperfect body and the troubled soul echoes how people with disability are often perceived, and how they experience the world.

This immersive, 17-minute performance weaves together dance, music, lighting and moving image to powerful effect, drawing audiences into a deeply intimate and transformative experience. A poetic metaphor for presence and legacy, it asks: What do we leave behind?

More than a performance, it offers audiences the opportunity to move, reflect and reimagine human vulnerability and strength through the lens of inclusive contemporary art.

The Australian Ballet and The Australian Ballet School, George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante

Allegro Brillante?is one of George Balanchine’s most joyous, pure dance pieces.

Described by the ballerina Maria Tallchief, on whom the bravura leading role was created, as “expansive Russian romanticism”, Allegro Brillante is set to Tchaikovsky’s?Piano Concerto No. 3.

Originally intended as his Sixth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s composition moves at a vigorous pace, making the steps appear even more difficult, but the ballet relies on strong dancing, precise timing and breadth of gesture.

Balanchine described this ballet as a concentrated essay in the extended classical vocabulary, in which a maximum amount of choreographic development is contained within a rather restricted area of time and space.

The Australian Ballet and Lucy Guerin, Ground Control?

A dance that explores the ephemeral lightness of ballet together with its strong grounded underpinnings.

Four dancers exist between the pull of gravity and the effort to escape it in a celebration of the yielding and resistance that must find balance within us all.

Dancenorth Australia, Wayfinder (Excerpt)?

Physical exuberance, sonic resonance and collective exhilaration explode onto the stage in a kaleidoscopic fusion of dance, music and visual art.

Speaking to our sensorial nature, Wayfinder reminds us of a state of being that transcends the words that have come to define us.

Navigating bigger and more ancient reference points, Wayfinder recognises connection as the central axis of the universe.

A summoning of collective awe and wonder, Wayfinder is a tonic for the times.?By the stars, the waves and the sun, we find our way.

About DanceX

Curated by The Australian Ballet, DanceX showcases eight leading dance companies from across Australia and New Zealand for two powerful weeks in Melbourne.

Experience bold new works and extraordinary performances by some of our most visionary choreographers and artists.

DanceX is where movement gives rise to new ideas – boundary-breaking and full of possibilities.