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09/10/2019

SPLIT

In a festival program which says as much about the state of dance, as it does our current consumption of dance, this year’s Melbourne Festival have chosen to re-mount three locally produced works. These three pieces are Lloyd’s seminal Overture, Stephanie Lake’s larger than life Colossusand andSplit by Lucy Guerin. And while much can be said about this perhaps…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
06/10/2019

ANTHEM

Many (most often within the arts) herald works such as Anthem,as being necessary or vital  – threatening to fracture and disrupt the fragility of mainstream discourse. But when art still remains such an undervalued recourse, what is its purpose, and how far-reaching is arts conversation? Broken into five interconnected storylines, Anthem is a work of scale – not only…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
05/10/2019

HIGH PERFORMANCE PACKING TAPE

“Don’t try this at home” is fair warning that this show is not for the faint-hearted. A delectable blend of high octane stunts, humour and day-to-day objects pushed further than they ever should be, High Performance Packing Tape is billed as a ‘master class in physical performance’. While the performance narrowly misses such a claim, it does…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
17/05/2019

THE TEMPLE

This work will divide people; there really is no middle ground, and it certainly is one of those works which will have you scratching your head post show, asking yourself “what the fuck did I just watch?”- it is just so amazingly banal you really have to take your hats off to the creative team.…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
17/05/2019

WINDIGO

In Algonquin folklore there is a recurring figure, a cannibalistic creature, called the windigo. Windigo is monstrous greed, it’s a being overcome by a desire to possess and consume. In Canadian Oji-Cree choreographer Lara Kramer’s new work, “windigo is capitalism”. Premiering in Australia as part of Yirramboi Festival, Windigo is a sequence of possession(s) charting the devastation…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
11/04/2019

WEST SIDE STORY

Had she one bullet left and they played the show in reverse, I would have taken that bullet to save myself from two and a half hours of torture. How a work of such magnitude, one which deals with the pertinent issue of race relations in America could loose its edge, at a time when Donald…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
20/03/2019

LADY EXAMPLE

The saddest thing about this work, is despite all its ambition, it truly lacks the finesse that a work of such grandeur truely deserves. The ideas are there, and yes each of them could possibly be claimed as being relevant and relating to our times, but they come so thick and fast, none are allowed…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
19/03/2019

WORLD PROBLEMS

World Problems is a beautifully subdued work, that dips, both feet, into the tepid water of identity politics. By the end of the experience though, what was once luke warm, has become something which burns to touch. The real star of the show is the writing, it’s an innate piece of script that tips back…
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