The Brag

Les Ballets C De La B
Out of Context-For Pina
By Lucy Fokkema
It’s 1984, and Alain Platel, a 28-year-old Belgian working with disabled children, has just seen a ballet by “the great phenomenon” Maurice Béjart, on the recommendation of a former teacher. Platel hates it, and they argue until the teacher throws Platel a dare: if [...]

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Posted: August 22nd, 2011 under Arts, Interviews-arts, Performance/Dance, Spring Dance Festival 2011.
Tags: Les Ballets C de la B, Lucy Fokkema, Out Of Context-For Pina, Spring Dance Festival 2011, The Brag

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Belong
Until August 20/ Sydney Opera House
***1/2
Sydney has a fairly rich dance scene at this point in time, encompassing semi-regular works by the Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, the brand-new Mod Dance Company, Sydney Opera House’s annual Spring Dance Festival, and a constant stream of world-dance tours such as Ballet Revolución and Havana Rakatan… [...]

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Posted: August 1st, 2011 under Arts, Brag 422 (July 25), Performance/Dance.
Tags: Bangarra Dance Theatre, Belong, Dee Jefferson, The Brag

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Havana Rakatan
June 7-19/ Sydney Opera House
****
Cuban dance spectacular Havana Rakatan has all the elements of a great guilty pleasure: West Side Story-esque dance-offs, cat fights, voodoo magic, an all-singing all-dancing wedding – and even a coy male striptease. In fact, at the risk of jeopardising my wobbly claims to street cred, the guilt hasn’t [...]

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Posted: June 27th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 417 (June 20), Performance/Dance, Theatre Reviews.
Tags: Havana Rakatan, Lucy Fokkema, The Brag

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The Yard
May 26-28/ Seymour Centre
****
Take an award-winning choreographer and 30 Western Sydney teens with diverse cultural backgrounds, give them three years together to workshop ideas, and you end up with Shaun Parker’s latest dance creation – a series of vignettes set in a schoolyard, replete with school uniforms, a slippery slide and a noisy bell, [...]

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Posted: June 13th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 415 (June 6), Performance/Dance.
Tags: The Brag, The Yard, Yasmin Parry

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The Bar At Buena Vista
Friday May 27/ State Theatre
****
Much like using the word American in a movie title, using the words Buena Vista in a show title is bound to attract an audience. Ever since the (re)emergence of the Buena Vista Social Club juggernaut, the ‘40s and ‘50s era of Cuban music has almost become [...]

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Posted: June 13th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 415 (June 6), Performance/Dance.
Tags: The Bar at Buena Vista, The Brag, Tony Edwards

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