FRINGE / X

Unlike any other, Melbourne Fringe takes place in theatres and galleries, but also in living rooms, in alleyways, in bookshops and libraries, in restaurants and cafes, in the backseat of cars – anywhere you can imagine. By pushing boundaries and illuminating new thoughts and ideas, our Festival transforms not only our city’s places but its…

PERFORMANCE

10/08/2018

MOJO JUJU / NATIVE TONGUE

It is like where the earth meets the sky, out there on the horizon, past yonder, the other-worldliness of a voice and a kind of talent that comes once in generations, mixing with a grounded humility that brings it all home. This is more than a night of music, this is about the intimacy of…

MUSIC

09/08/2018

OUR WOMEN

Basking in the light of the Leonard French ceiling in the great hall, Indigenous fashion designers will collaborate with artists and musicians to deliver a unique indigenous cultural spectacular, honouring the strengths and talents of our female creators. ‘Our Women’ is inspired by the tribal and cultural stories, featuring female Indigenous figures from around the…

FASHION

06/08/2018

CONCRETE IMPERMANENCE

Melding dance and art, this new work is an expression of how the animate and inanimate connect. As the dancers interact with moveable sculptural objects on stage, they unfurl a story that tackles global and personal instability, environmental disaster and personal trauma. Through these relationships and environments, Concrete Impermanence reveals the fragility of human existence…

PERFORMANCE

01/08/2018

OVERTURE

‘Overture’ is not only a term used to name the prelude to an opera. It also means an opening; an offer; to uncover; an initial move toward negotiations. It’s a dance that considers the unrequited, the unattainable; an attempt to connect with particular beings of interest/obsession, including each other. Creating shared fictions, OVERTURE’s dancers reconstruct…

PERFORMANCE

26/07/2018

NOW SOUND

Famously known as the live music capital of the world, Melbourne has achieved iconic status. Countless local artists have launched their careers on the storied stages of the city’s inner north, even while gentrification threatens the scene’s viability and other issues, including sexism, continue to undercut it. Now Sound: Melbourne’s Listening, an immersive capsule of…

MUSIC

25/07/2018

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL / X

From the 3rd of October, Melbourne International Arts Festival will ignite our city with a program which both provokes and inspires. Melbourne International Arts Festival seeks to connect art forms, people and ideas; this is nowhere more present more than in the eclectic mix of shows, curated by Jonathon Holloway in this, his third year…

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

20/07/2018

MELANIE JAME WOLF: HIGHNESS

First up, this work is not of the Australian cannon, it is slow, languid, and purposeful, oozing with a kind of sensuality often lost on local dancers and dance makers: this is Highness, the latest piece by Melanie Jame Wolf and Savage Amusements – a work that within its tight 60 minute run time, delves…

PERFORMANCE