With an all-male cast of dancers, Shaun Parker and Company’s KING eloquently explored control, fragile masculinity and the juxtaposition between emotional dissonance and harmony in relationships. The cast of experienced dancers effortlessly moved their bodies across the stage and weaved around each other in a mesmerising rhythm.
Read moreCombining Two Worlds: Recital Melds Dance and Percussion
A new work brings together two performers, both acclaimed in their fields, to challenge the separation between music and dance. Titled Recital, the work references both performers’ individual discipline, but is ultimately a piece outside of any individual silo.
Read moreThe Evolution of Art Month
Creating the lines that form a criss-crossing pattern over the city, Art Month 2019 is tying together a rapidly changing arts scene. With a program in its tenth year that is as large scale as it is fine-grained, as many of the featured events are the individual shows of small galleries, artistic director Kate Britton ran us through some of the evolutions in her second year as director and curator.
Read moreThe Wolves is a raw and poignant exploration of female adolescence
Set among soccer pitch escapades, Belvoir’s production of The Wolves offered a beautifully uncensored look into the chaos and confusion that is female adolescence. Teaming up against each other yet ultimately coming together, a naïve but courageous soccer team of 16 year old girls must navigate the world of growing up – a world that is both exciting and scary, and unfortunately inevitable.
Read moreFestival Unwrapped: A New Wind In the Opera House Sails
While the white shells of the Sydney Opera House are arguably Australia’s most iconic architectural image, the venue can often feel as if it is a ship out at sea, away from the port of local performing arts. The new Festival Unwrapped, premiering this May, is setting out to be the dinghy that brings local productions by independent artists and small to medium sized companies to the Opera House.
Read moreBlak Box – Four Winds – Blacktown
Walking towards the pale grey, surround sound pavilion that has descended onto the lawn of Blacktown showgrounds, it is hard to imagine that the project began as an entirely intangible experience.
Read more“We need stories about strong independent women” The Truth of old Hollywood in The Voice Behind The Stars
On January 23 and 24, Eliza Jackson will be bringing her show The Voice Behind The Stars to Sydney’s Seymour Centre. Written and performed by Australian born, London based actress and singer Eliza Jackson, the one-woman show explores the life of Marni Nixon, the most prolific ghost singer of all time;
Read moreBorrowed Scenery: Gender, Framing and the Arts
Recognising the power that institutions hold in social change, the first exhibition in Campbelltown Arts Centre for 2019 confronts and celebrates the role that a collecting gallery can have in pushing for social change. Entitled Borrowed Scenery, the show reframes the contribution of women in art from being the subject of the male gaze, to the creators of art forms.
Read moreComedy in Sydney is Not Just For Laughs
Today, Sydney’s comedy scene is filled with up and coming comedians who are testing some of the most outrageous and ridiculous new ways to make people laugh. Some of those comedians driving the form forward are Zoë Sitas and Theo Murray who often attend and perform in open mic nights
Read moreWhat can my hands touch? Caldera transforms Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop
The space was completely dark when my sister and I scurried in late. We entered what would have felt like a lifeless and abandoned factory space, if it weren’t for the presence of a crowd gathered a few metres away - all of whom appeared to be observing something of apparent significance.
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