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  • Fjord Review is an international online and print review of ballet and dance, edited by Penelope Ford.

    Fjord Review publishes dance criticism, interviews, feature articles, dance films, and hosts Talking Pointes Podcast. Contributors to Fjord Review are dance scholars, critics, artists and emerging voices united by a passion and talent for illuminating dance. Since 2019, Fjord Review has published a limited-edition print magazine. Published by Fjord Review Inc., Toronto, Canada.

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Lucy Guerin Inc’s annual commissioned triple bill program: Pieces

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Sue Healey: On View: Icons

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

 

The Australian Ballet: Bodytorque: New World Record

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Arabella Frahn-Starkie / Callum Mooney / Alix Kuijpers: Pictures & Ghosts / Cosmos / Grim Grinning Ghosts

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

The Australian Ballet: Études/Circle Electric

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

 

The Australian Ballet: Oscar

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Horizon

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Christopher Gurusamy: Ānanda: Dance of Joy

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

 

Lucy Guerin: One Single Action: In an Ocean of Everything

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Ghenoa Gela with Force Majeure in association with Ilbijerri Theatre Company: Gurr Era Op

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Melanie Lane: Arkadia

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

 

Prue Lang’s work in progress showing, POESIS

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Atlanta Eke / Holly Durant / Amrita Hepi: Innocence / Alter Edith / Liable

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

The Australian Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

 

Rosalind Crisp’s dance excerpt, as part of The Night of Ideas, NGV

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2024

Lucy Guerin Inc’s annual commissioned triple bill program: Pieces

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

The Australian Ballet: Marguerite & Armand / The Dream

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

 

Recoil Performance Group: MASS-bloom Explorations

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Yuldea

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

In conversation with Rosalind Crisp: Dancing over Ashes

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

 

The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

Rosalind Crisp: The real time it takes…

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

Sydney Dance Company: Ascent

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

 

The inaugural season of Escalator

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

The Tokyo Ballet: Giselle

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

The Australian Ballet: Jewels

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

 

The Australian Ballet: Identity

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

Lucy Guerin: NEWRETRO

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

The Australian Ballet: Don Quixote

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

 

Prue Lang, Yuiko Masukawa, Sandra Parker, and Lilian Steiner: An Afternoon of Work-in-Progress Studio Showings

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2023

The Australian Ballet presents DanceX: Part Three

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet presents DanceX: Part One

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

 

The Australian Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

Lucy Guerin: Pendulum

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet: Instruments of Dance

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

 

Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer [ two for now ]: Weathering

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

Rhiannon Newton: Explicit Contents

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet: Bodytorque

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

 

Keir Choreographic Award: Week Two

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

Keir Choreographic Award: Week One

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet: Harlequinade

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

 

The Australian Ballet: Kunstkamer

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet: Anna Karenina

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

Angela Goh: Sky Blue Mythic

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

 

Prue Lang: CASTILLO

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

Project Animo: And Now We Move On

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2022

The Australian Ballet Celebration Gala

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2021

 

Scarlet Sykes Hesterman: Rockpool

Catalogue essay for Heather Hesterman and Sarah Tomasetti, Peradam Projects, 2021

The Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque.Digital: Forma

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

The Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque.Digital: New Ghost

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

 

The Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque.Digital: Capriccio

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

Taking Shelter: dance collaborations created during confinement

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

The Australian Ballet: Romeo & Juliet

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

 

swiss.style

Fjord Review, Volume 2, 2020, print edition, pages 126–129

Asia TOPA: Pollen Revolution and What Happened in Shanghai

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2020

Cindy Van Acker: Solos

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

 

Rudi van der Merwe: Trophy

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Bangarra Dance Theatre: 30 years of sixty five thousand

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

The Australian Ballet: Sylvia

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

 

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: LAC

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Lara Kramer: Windigo, YIRRAMBOI First Nations Festival

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Dark Night and Quake, Dance Massive 2019

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

 

Stephanie Lake: Skeleton Tree

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Alice Dixon, William McBride and Caroline Meaden: Lady Example

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Lucy Guerin: Make Your Own World

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

 

James Welsby/Valerie Hex: Dancing Qweens

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2019

Genevieve Lacey: Soliloquy

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

Queensland Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

 

The Australian Ballet: Spartacus

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

Camila Galaz: You are the magnet and I am the metal (slowly magnitizdat)

Catalogue essay for Camila Galaz, 2018

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Dark Emu

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

 

The Australian Ballet: Giselle

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

Alice Topp: Aurum

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

The Australian Ballet: The Merry Widow

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

 

Stephanie Lake: Replica

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

Chunky Move: Accumulation, NGV Triennial dance takeover

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2018

 

Eko Supriyanto: Salt

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

Eve Sussman, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Jim White: More up a Tree

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

The Australian Ballet: Symphony in C

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

 

The Australian Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Bennelong

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

Melanie Lane: Nightdance

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

 

The Australian Ballet: Nutcracker — The Story of Clara

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

KAGE: Out of Earshot

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

Dance Massive 2017

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

 

Martin Hansen: If it’s all in my veins

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

The Australian Ballet: Faster

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2017

Dance highlights from 2016: Swing Time

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

Matthew Day: Assemblage #1

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Ashley Dyer: Tremor

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Dance Territories: Border Lines

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

Les 7 Doigts: Triptyque

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

The Australian Ballet: Coppélia

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Blowin’ Up and Two Parts of Easy Action, Melbourne Fringe 2016

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

The Australian Ballet: Nijinsky

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Chunky Move’s Next Move 9: Re-make and Mermermer

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Houston Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

Dancenorth: If__ Was__

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Nederlands Dans Theater: Sehnsucht, Solo Echo, Stop-Motion

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Chunky Move: L U C I D

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

Sydney Dance Company: CounterMove

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

The Australian Ballet: Vitesse

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Nelken (Carnations)

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

 

Stephanie Lake: Double Blind

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2016

Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden and William McBride: This is What’s Happening

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Sydney Dance Company and Australian Chamber Orchestra: Illuminated

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

Limbo: Melbourne Festival

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Batsheva Dance Company: Last Work

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Batsheva Dance Company: Decadance

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

Power to Transform, The Australian Ballet’s 2016 Season

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

The Australian Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

The Australian Ballet: 20:21

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

The Australian Ballet: Cinderella

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Sydney Dance Company: Frame of Mind

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

10,000 small deaths, On View: Quintet, Solos for Other People, and Long Grass, Dance Massive 2015

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Lucy Guerin: Motion Picture

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Do You Speak Chinese? and Merge, Dance Massive 2015

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

The Australian Ballet: Giselle

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Nothing to Lose, Catalogue, and Tiny Slopes, Dance Massive 2015

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Meeting and Overworld, Dance Massive 2015

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

 

Chunky Move: Depth of Field, Dance Massive 2015

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2015

Dance Highlights from 2014

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

Ros Warby: Double Bill

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

 

Nat Cursio and Shannon Bott: Recovery

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Sacred and Profane — Rituals of Now

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

 

Chloe Chignell and Timothy Walsh: The Summit is Blue

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Australian Ballet: La Bayadère

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

 

The Australian Ballet: Imperial Suite

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Australian Ballet: Bodytorque.DNA

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Australian Ballet: Chroma

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

 

Russell Dumas: Love is Blind

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

Nat Cursio: The Middle Room

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2014

 

The Australian Ballet: Cinderella

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

The Australian Ballet: La Sylphide and Paquita

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

The Australian Ballet: Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

 

The Australian Ballet: Vanguard

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

Atlanta Eke: Monster Body, Dance Massive 2013

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

[Gu:t] 굿, Dance Massive 2013

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

 

On Reflection: Dual, 247 Days, dance for the time being — Southern Exposure, Dance Massive 2013

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

Ashley Dyer: Life Support, Dance Massive 2013

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2013

The Australian Ballet 50th Gala

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2012

 

Pierrot lunaire as part of Melbourne Festival

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2012

The Australian Ballet: Stephen Baynes’s Swan Lake

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2012

Nederlands Dans Theater: Move to Move

Written piece for Fjord Review, 2012