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15/03/2018

VENUS IN FUR

Brilliant theatre, the kind that stops you dead in your tracks, awe struck, and, at once under its spell, this is exactly what Venus In Fur by David Ives delivers: but here it is made all the more awesome by the deft touch of Lightning Jar Theatre. It centres on two worlds that which slips…
PERFORMANCE
13/03/2018

FIERCE

  What would happen if a woman was able to compete against men in the AFL? How would she fit in to this male dominated world, and what would be the reactions of others? These are the questions explored in the new theatre production, Fierce. This thought-provoking play uses the hyper-masculine world of football as…
PERFORMANCE
12/03/2018

BODY MAP

The body politics is something that we really have not moved on from, since it became apparent in the nineties that we had serious issues around what we deem as acceptable and not acceptable for women but also, to a lesser degree, for men too. So, any work that tackles these issues head on, with…
PERFORMANCE
07/03/2018

TWERK IT

Twerkshop, created by performance artist Caroline Garcia for Festival Of Live Art, will see the artist guiding you through the bootylicious basics of dancing with your pelvis, one on one all while taking you through twerking’s history within the African diaspora. A moving, jiggling critique of twerking’s mainstreaming as a form of colonisation, this intimate…
PERFORMANCE
01/03/2018

THE SOUND OF FALLING STARS

First, lets get one thing straight:  The Sound Of Falling Stars is marvellous performance, existing in some perfect place that most creatives only ever dream of calling  their own. Though, perhaps, not surprising when the creative team working here is lead by one of Australia’s most luminary and distinguished  theatre directors, Robyn Archer, then left…
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
01/03/2018

OUR NEW NATIONAL SPORT

Terror – if it doesn’t kill us, will it make us stronger? This is the  question that artist Cigdem Aydemir poses in her latest work The New National Sport, a live art endurance performance. As part of the performance, audience will witness Aydemir as she returns serves sent from a tennis-ball throwing machine, which eject  balls…
PERFORMANCE
27/02/2018

GLITTA BOMB

Psychedelic, Satirical, Personal & Political storytelling that’s packed to the rafters with puns, punches & possibilities. BODY MAP is deep dive across the consumer bordered planet and into our inner being, highlighting our capacity to transform despite the odds. Created by Australia’s most celebrated underground performance artist & the worlds original sex clown Glitta Supernova…
PERFORMANCE
26/02/2018

HAND TO GOD

Hand To God is much like the sex life of Barnaby Joyce, good fodder, cheap entertainment, and bearing all the hallmarks of some nasty car crash you can’t help but want to watch in all and every bit of gory detail. But apart from this, it’s pretty slim pickings and should be approached most certainly,…
PERFORMANCE
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