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…

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…

The huge scope of the State Theatre is a curious setting for such an anti-theatrical event as A Quiet Evening Of Dance. Black vinyl floor, white wash lights, dancers in ‘civvies’ and, to begin with, no music at all. The silence is refreshing and reminds one to be less damning of the coughers and rustlers,…

It’s hard to believe that this is the first time Australian audiences have had the pleasure of hosting The Silk Road Ensemble, a long time coming, that couldn’t have come soon enough. Electric, magnetic, the very height of artistic collaboration, bringing together, in almost perfection, sounds of the West and those of the East. Having…

A brave, ambitious work that seeks to strip the East and the West of its choreographic ornamentation and, instead, present both side as a united entity, through the similarities of their respective artistic passions. And, though its attempts are noble, it is not so much the height which it misses, as it is the earthiness…

Prize Fighter introduces us to the world of Congolese refugee, Isa, and the atrocities that lead him to Australia. This powerful theatre uncovers harsh and violent realities of radicalism and war, displacement and loss, interrogating morality, empathy, loyalty & betrayal, manipulation, kindness and forgiveness in the many experiences and relationships we bear witness to, along…

Layla and Majnun is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Mark Morris Dance Group and the musicians of Yo Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, featuring the Qasimovs, masters of the indigenous Azerbaijani music Mugham. Based on a Persian narrative poem, Layla and Majnun follows a plot about star-crossed lovers, akin to that of Romeo and Juliet. Life…

Newport’s Substation proves yet again to be a sublime venue for taking in art-works by providing the vaulted space for ASUNA’s sonic circle experience. The lights are warm and plush carpets are laid a short distance from an expanding circle of toy keyboards. There is a spot for everyone, and it feels as though the…