Alice Topp transports Shakespeare’s tragedy into contemporary politics, where influencers shape private discourse and public outcomes. Nina Levy reviews a “clever, compelling and world-class” new ballet.

Grace Carroll and Davi Ramos bring youthful promise to John Cranko’s enduring tragedy as The Australian Ballet returns to Brisbane, writes Daniel Gaudiello.

A high-energy return for Burn The Floor, with live music, sharp partnering and late-night glamour. Jorja Freeman shines, while Rome Champion brings a fresh charge to the Sydney Opera House stage..

Stephanie Lake turns the interval itself into choreographic material in VISTA, a striking two-act work of mirrored perspectives, repetition and contrast, driven by six exceptional dancers.

Striking design, a glorious onstage band, a thrilling Tevye’s Dream and Jerome Robbins’ iconic Bottle Dance make Fiddler on the Roof a vibrant, moving night at Theatre Royal Sydney.

Denise Richardson finds mixed rewards in Australasian Dance Collective’s latest Three, a triple bill created to encourage choreographic risk-taking.

Sydney Dance Company’s Engine brings three distinct choreographic worlds to the Drama Theatre, with Melanie Lane’s Love Lock the clear highlight in an evening powered by precision, intensity and exceptional dancing.

Young Dance Scholar Olivia Hayes Marshall responds to Sydney Dance Company’s Engine, finding a triple bill rich in texture, intensity and technical command.

Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes brings The Australian Ballet into a vivid, kaleidoscopic world, where classical precision meets athletic transparency, colour, rhythm and sweeping American sound.

Co3 Contemporary Dance’s Gathering.2 turns the Liberty Theatre into a warehouse party of movement, music and strange fantasy worlds, in an engaging farewell season curated by Raewyn Hill.

Leo Mujić’s Hamlet gives Shakespeare’s tragedy a striking new physical language, with Queensland Ballet delivering a dark, theatrical and emotionally charged interpretation.

Young Dance Scholar Ella White reviews Solstice Dance Collective’s Electric Universe and Exocytosis, two contemporary works that transform birdsong, biology and sensation into bold physical worlds.

The ABS Winter Season offered a poised and well-balanced glimpse of young dancers nearing the edge of professional life, classical and contemporary demands with discipline, care and emerging authority.

Sydney Dance Company’s double bill at the Australian Dance Biennale placed two dystopian worlds side by side, with Antony Hamilton’s absurd, enigmatic Forever and Ever proving the more compelling of the two.

Bangarra’s 2026 triple bill is carefully made and warmly received, with moments of striking visual power, though not every work reaches the company’s strongest emotional force.

Rather than focusing on a narrative or theme, Glow is a choreographic essay that explores how technology extends the limits of the body.