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Author / Jessi Ryan
11/10/2017

WHERE IT HAPPENED

Dance in the public domain, dance and the everyday, dance histories, cultural memory and identity memories, the people, and the places that define. This Is Where It Happened, is a dance performance that seeks to trance then re-tell the intricate dance history and story of the community found in the Lilydale and Yarra Ranges. No small undertaking, Gülsen Özer the creative…
PERFORMANCE
11/10/2017

BOOK OF EXODUS II

  Book of Exodus Part II traces a community propelled from their past into an uncertain future. From the collective better known as Fraught Outfit, we are brought the final chapter in a project with an ensemble of young performers at the centre of its process. The biblical and foretelling nature of their source material provides a timely…
PERFORMANCE
10/10/2017

DARK CIRCUS

As children, the two creatives behind Dark Circus were to find in television the inspiration for a work they would later go on to create as adults.  To call this work of Romain Bermond and Jean-Baptiste Maillet children’s theatre is completely reductive. This is not so much a comment on the work itself, but on the genre…
PERFORMANCE
10/10/2017

AMERICAN SONG

As a title for a show, American Song evokes memories of a time when America was wholesome and great. It brings forth not only names such as Plath, Whitman and Emerson, but also more contemporary works like Bruce Springsteen’s  Streets of Philadelphia or I’m On Fire.  But in more recent times with the sentiment of Making American Great Again…
PERFORMANCE
09/10/2017

UNDER SIEGE

Steeped in tradition from the long lineage of Peking Opera, Yang Lipings’ Under Siege is a performance introduced and narrated throughout by a single performer: the paper cutter, a stoic figure that remains unshaken throughout the work. For western audiences and those not familiar with Chinese culture, paper cutting is a highly regarded art form that dates back…
PERFORMANCE
07/10/2017

TAYLOR MAC

Taylor Mac’s presence will leave you revelling in an experience so far beyond comprehension and beauty that it will stop you dead in your tracks. If what this performer effortlessly embodies could be passed on as a gift, perhaps our world would slow down just enough to avoid that cataclysmic thing we all know is…
PERFORMANCE
05/10/2017

ALWAYS WILL BE

On the lands of The Kulin Nations, our fine city built. Each year in solidarity and recognition of a culture that existed here for thousands of year, Tanderrum,  a ceremony of the five clans of the Central Kulin Nation, marks the beginning of what is unquestionably Australia’s premier arts event, Melbourne Festival. Having become over the…
PERFORMANCE
05/10/2017

YOUTHFIRE

What was a loss for Brisbane, is now a big win for Melbourne, but with our cultural scene being one of the best anywhere in the world, bursting at the seams with creative goodness, is there room for any more creative types to take shelter in our embracing city? The answer, a resounding yes. Particularly,…
MUSIC
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