Reviews
“Performance with a passion and richness of culture” Adelaide Advertiser, 9 February 2008
“The production is strikingly designed and the dancing is beautiful, with a particularly moving solo by Patrick Thaiday” Sunday Telegraph, 12 August 2007
“True Stories shows Bangarra’s future is in good hands” Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2007
“X300 … visually striking and memorable images” SX, 11 August 2007
True Stories “offers an invigorating blend of voices bringing new moves and attitudes to this vibrant company” Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2007
“This beautifully devised and executed program of contrasting-but-complementary works from Bangarra Dance Theatre is a definitive demonstration why the company is so admired both internationally and at home” Canberra City News, 5 July 2007
“They [the dancers] are strong and graceful, with not a single accidental step, so the joy of watching dance – intricate, exciting choreography faithfully executed on stage – is constantly fulfilled” Rave Magazine, 12 June 2007
“In both works, the dancers delivered inspired choreography with a strength and emotion that was tangible from the audience” Queensland Times, 9 June 2007
“Bangarra has soul” Daily Mail, 9 June 2007
“In David Page’s brilliant score, sounds become menacing punctuation, and archival audio recordings chilling” Daily Mail, 9 June 2007
“Genevieve Dugard’s set provides a visual echo, and all components are suberbly accented by Glenn Hughes’ eerie and dramatic lighting effects” Daily Mail, 9 June 2007
“If Bangarra isn’t yet one of the most important dance companies in the world, it ought to be…” stagediary.com, 9 June 2007
“The contrast of both dance and costume style throughout X300 was bound together by the use of a masterful frenetic soundtrack…” australianstage.com.au, 8 June 2007
“… Emeret Lu is a knockout” MX, 24 May 2007
“They make it look so effortless, so beautiful. Gripping and lifting each other with a seemingly featherlight touch, the men and women of Bangarra Dance Theatre flow and whip around, above and below each other” The Age, 17 May 2007
“This is compelling, enriching dance that takes us all to a deeper place and a stronger connection” Herald Sun, 20 May 2007
“[Emeret Lu] is colourful, joyful and captures the spirit of the land” Herald Sun, 20 May 2007
“Choreographer Elma Kris and music designer Steve Francis have created an intricate merging of contemporary and traditional dance” Herald Sun, 20 May 2007
“Patrick Thaiday, as usual, is a standout, especially in his solo, Black Mist, which highlights his supple body control and unique flexibility” Herald Sun, 22 May 2007
“True Stories shows precisely why Bangarra Dance Theatre is consistently the most challenging of the country’s dance companies” The Australian, 21 May 2007
“… Smilar Sinak, who combines an authoritative presence with the lightness of a cat” The Australian, 21 May 2007
“Emeret Lu is a graceful first mainstage work from dancer Elma Kris. Her reverence for the stories she gathered from the Torres Strait is touching and Emeret Lu has a luminous quality” The Australian, 21 May 2007
On David Page’s music: “It is a masterly collage of sounds, eclectic in nature but tightly and tensely constructed” The Australian, 21 May 2007
“Rings creates striking image after striking image…” The Australian, 21 May 2007
“Bangarra Dance Theatre is now a mature, distinctive, contemporary dance ensemble with a sophisticated sense of theatricality and a unique repertoire” The Age, 19 May 2007
“Feet flex, a back arches, a body rises and settles. The bodies arch, curve, yield and resist” The Age, 19 May 2007