Rian Fabulous Beast, Theatre Royal, January 17 IN Rian things start hotting up – a relative term – when the men take off their jackets and the women discard their little white socks and flat shoes, the company’s version of getting into ecstatic, Dionysiac mode. The modesty is thoroughly disarming. The eight dancers and five…
Category: Dance
Urban, Sydney Festival
Circolombia, Riverside Theatre, Parramatta, January 15 URBAN is the antithesis of the super-slick circus and acrobatic shows that seem to be everywhere these days. Its structure is loose, its energy is rough and raucous, its soundtrack from the streets, not everything comes off as planned and if your Spanish isn’t up to the mark…
Symphony, It’s Dark Outside, Sydney Festival
Symphony, Legs on the Wall, CarriageWorks, January 13 It’s Dark Outside, Perth Theatre Company, CarriageWorks, January 13 WHAT do 30 large cardboard boxes have to do with Beethoven’s sublime 7th symphony? Unfortunately, as it turns out, very little. The intriguing starting point for Symphony is Stefan Gregory’s arrangement of Beethoven for one electric guitar. From…
Blaze
The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, January 12 I SINCERELY hope there was no one I knew in the house at the Saturday matinee performance of Blaze because when we all stood to perform Atomic Food – interpreting various comestibles including broccoli, celery and baked beans (you can imagine that one) – I didn’t do…
Sacre- the Rite of Spring, Sydney Festival
Sacre – The Rite of Spring CarriageWorks, Sydney, January 5. RAIMUND Hoghe’s intensely personal response to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps is almost too private to watch, demanding a depth of concentration from the viewer that comes close to voyeurism. On one level Sacre is a series of repeated movements of an everyday kind, plain…
The best of 2012 and my picks for 2013
The long list for my top 10 shows of 2012 numbered more than 20 – a pretty good indication of a strong year in the arts. So why restrict myself to 10? No point really, so here are the shows that worked for me last year: At the Sydney Festival: Babel (Words), a wild dance-theatre…
Remembering Colin Peasley
Colin Peasley gave his last performance as a member of The Australian Ballet on December 19, 2012. A shorter version of this profile first appeared in The Australian newspaper on Saturday December 8. A PHOTO in Luminous, a book of essays and images celebrating The Australian Ballet’s 50th anniversary, says it all. The occasion is…
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