Coffee is a pervasive element of modern Melbourne culture and has the potential to be an interesting theme for a circus show. Love, Loss and Lattes is a respectable debut solo performance by pole dancer and aerialist ‘Missy’, but it lacks characterisation and vitality. Missy opens the show sitting at a desk with a mug […]

Some dance performances allow their audience to relax mentally and passively take in the action. BUNKER is not one of them. Choreographed and performed by Leah Landau and Lilian Steiner, this innovative piece compels its audience to be mentally present and aware of every nuance of the performance: rarely can either dancer’s movement be anticipated, and […]

The industrial precinct of Kensington is an unexpected place to find an engrossing cultural experience but that’s where you’ll find Motion Gallery, performed at Transit Dance’s contemporary dance training studio in an enormous wool-store, built in 1891. Once inside, the audience is encouraged to enjoy drinks and canapés in the foyer before being guided around the six […]

Chloe Dallas interviews Melbourne Fringe Festival artists Nebahat Erpolat and April Albert about relocating, feeling adrift and building a life in a new place.