It goes without saying creating new work is always a gamble. When it’s staged as part of a major festival the stakes are even higher. The show has to compete with much more seasoned fare. Odious comparisons may be made and a strong idea may never get to have a second chance. That fate has…
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On View: Live Portraits
Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney, July 17 HOW can we know the dancer from the dance, asked W.B. Yeats. It’s a question embedded in Sue Healey’s absorbing On View: Live Portraits, a piece that incorporates the moving image, live performance and, for 10 minutes at the beginning, the dancer as museum object. When the doors to…
Incredibly virtuosic, highly expressive
Director and choreographer Antony Hamilton. The Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney, August 13. WITH a bit of Einstein on the Beach over here, a spot of 2001: A Space Odyssey over there, a suggestion of wonky 1950s sci-fi film, images of sleek robotics and a sliver or two of domestic life, Keep Everything is both an…
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