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The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

In our weekly interview about objects, Sydney Dance Company’s artistic director tells us about a protective pendant, and his stationery indulgence

“Ballet is woman” claimed the legendary New York choreographer George Balanchine. But “where are all the women ballet choreographers?” asked researchers Oellen A. Meglin and Lynn Matluck Brooks in 2012. They found only 23 articles on women ballet choreographers in the New York Times’ 171-year history.

In our weekly interview about objects, the dancer and choreographer talks about a handmade dress and some essential parenting hardware

She’s one of Australia’s most exciting choreographers, rocketing to success here and abroad over the last four years; but Stephanie Lake’s pathway to the mainstage was unconventional and convoluted.

From booking fewer flights to mending socks, companies are focusing on cutting emissions. Can their small changes add up?

Contemporary dance can be a lot of things – audacious, thrilling, arousing, funny, joyous, even brutal. If you want to understand it, first stop trying to understand it.