As the end of the year approaches, the Limelight team and our critics have already looked back on their classical music, opera, theatre and musical theatre highlights. We finish our 2019 round-up with a look at some of the dance highlights. As usual it was a tight decision with much to choose from but these are the productions we picked.

Jo Litson – Editor

30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand (Bangarra Dance Theatre)

Stamping Ground. Photograph © Daniel Boud

The remarkable Bangarra Dance Theatre celebrated its 30th anniversary with a triple bill that included Stamping Ground by Jiří Kylián, the Czech choreographic maestro who ran Netherlands Dance Theatre for over 20 years. Inspired by a large corroboree that Kylián attended on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Stamping Ground is not only a thrilling piece in its own right but marked the first time that Bangarra had performed a work by a non-Indigenous choreographer. The six dancers who performed it did a brilliant job of adapting to movement that is very different to what they are used to. Programmed with Frances Rings’ Unaipon and...