Performance and Dance

Must do

• Sydney Dance Company
• Sydney Theatre Company
• Belvoir St Theatre
  
• Bangarra Dance Theatre

Highlights

Dance, theatre and opera in Sydney

Sydney is home to a number of Australia's leading arts companies, such as Opera Australia, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre. The acclaimed Bangarra Dance Company, Australia's leading indigenous dance company, is also based in Sydney.

 

Dance and performing arts in Sydney

Make sure you get tickets to some of the hottest dance, ballet and opera events when you're holidaying in Sydney. A typical Sydney Theatre Company season offers a program of Australian plays, interpretations of classics and the best of new international work. The 2013 season offers 13 productions with plenty of choice of themes - love, politics, doom, delusion, soul-searching and more. The dynamic Sydney Dance Company, with Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela at the helm, performs at Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay. Don't miss the opportunity to see Australia's leading contemporary dance company in action in Sydney.

Opera Australia has a packed season of much-loved classics from Donizetti, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi. They include La boheme, Falstaff, La traviata and Tosca. For this first time, Opera Australia performed on a floating stage on Sydney Harbour in 2012. With the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge as backdrops, the magnificent spectacle of Verdi’s La traviata was performed on a purpose-built stage floating on the harbour. In 2013, it was the turn of Bizet’s Carmen, once again performed on Sydney Harbour; in 2014, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly will light up the harbour.

The Australian Ballet's 2013 season is dedicated to the jewels of classical ballet including Don Quixote and La Sylphide. Meanwhile, Vanguard brings together three master choreographers of the 20th century in a new Australian Ballet production of Cinderella.

• Darling Harbour Fiesta Sydney City, Sydney, Darling Harbour

  Close your eyes in Darling Harbour and wake up in Latin America with a weekend of free Latin music and dance at Fiesta.Turn up the heat with a huge li...

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  Saturday 12 October to Sunday 13 October

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• Art and About Sydney Sydney City, Sydney, City Centre

  Sydney will be the scene of an amazing celebration of colour this spring during Art and About Sydney, featuring a house that rains on the inside, the ...

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  Friday 20 September to Sunday 20 October

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• Adam Guettel Inner Sydney, Sydney, Darlinghurst

  Under the musical direction of Kim Grigsby and with incomparable singer Haley Bond by his side, New York composer and lyricist Adam Guettel takes to t...

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  Thursday 6 June

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• Sydney Dance Company Sydney City, Sydney, City Centre

  The contrast between the heritage wharf buildings and the modern choreography of the Sydney Dance Company is extraordinary and surprisingly compatible...

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• Descendance Sydney City, Sydney, City Centre

  Descendance preserves and promotes Aboriginal culture. They represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers from many diverse tribes. Desce...

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• Romeo and Juliet Sydney City, Sydney, City Centre

  The greatest love story of all time? Certainly. But it's also a prototype for some of culture's other great narratives: the rebellion against ...

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  Tuesday 17 September to Saturday 2 November

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• Deviator Inner Sydney, Sydney, Darlinghurst

  Prepare for citywide disruption as Australia's notorious tactical media art group pvi collective take over the streets of Darlinghurst. During the...

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  Tuesday 11 June to Sunday 16 June

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• The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

  Yarrie Bangura grew up in a camp in Guinea. She is doing her HSC. Aminata Doumbia is from Sierra Leone. She is an ambassador for the UNHCR. Big Mama R...

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  Thursday 15 August to Sunday 8 September

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• Dendy Cinema - Newtown Inner Sydney, Sydney, Newtown

  A modern four state-of-the-art cinema complex in the heart of Newtown, the Dendy Cinema Newtown screens the latest and best in quality international f...

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• Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney City, Sydney, City Centre

  Formed in 1920, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs is Australia's leading choral organisation. They have a reputation both nationally and internationally ...

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