STEPHANIE LAKE / SKELETON TREE

”I’ve lost people as most people have, but the thing is, I feel like a fraud, because I haven’t lost either of my parents nor my partner, I do fear it and I do think about my own death often. The passing of time is really present, everyone we know, everyone we love, will die.…

INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE

26/02/2019

LUCY GUERIN / MAKE YOUR OWN WORLD

Lucy Guerin is a name synonyms with contemporary dance in Melbourne. In her latest work, Make Your Own World, the dancers toy with power structure and the political through physical embodiment. Here, both structured and improvised choreography, emerges: Having moved here from Adelaide and, as she explains, originally from a ballet background, her work is now…

INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE

24/02/2019

MQFF / MMXIX

This year, Melbourne Queer Film Festival edges closer to its 30th anniversary; as ever, the festival program finds inspiration from each corner of the diverse community that the festival stands to represent through big screen adaption. With works having begun on the redevelopment of ACMI this year, the festival will not centre upon one locale,…

FILM INTERVIEWS

18/02/2019

JILL ORR / DARK NIGHT

“Our basic human nature is consistently afraid of other things.” Jill Orr, is one of our country’s most established artists. Her work often challenges convention, while responding to our landscape as much as our consciousness. This Dance Massive, Orr is presenting Dark Night; a work born from a place of visual arts that, through creative evolution,…

INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE

30/10/2018

DIE! DIE! DIE! OLD PEOPLE DIE!

In this work, indie theatre legends, David Woods and Jon Haynes project into 120-year-old versions of themselves in a seriously funny work about hanging on, dying and grieving, all played at 33rpm. Flagship UK theatre company created by Ridiculusmus (The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland; Give Me Your Love), and marking a return to Arts…

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24/10/2018

THE INFIRMARY

Enter a richly poetic experience, submit to the caring hands of others and contemplate your mortality. Set in a hospital ward, The Infirmary invites you to give yourself over to a uniquely sensorial encounter that considers life and death as science and mystery. Can we ever be ready to die? How do we imagine our…

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24/10/2018

WHILE YOU SLEEP

An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems. Exploring flight, escape, memory and dissociation, While You Sleep: A Fugue is both…

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19/10/2018

A GHOST IN MY SUITCASE

Stage adaptions have, by nature, the tendency to go awry, the difficulties of translating characters, place and time from page into something tangible within performance, are all too-well known. However, in this adaption of A Ghost In My Suitcase, originally written by Gabrielle Wang, here made real by Barking Gecko Theatre, lies an example of…

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