Archive for 'Performance/Dance'
[CABARET: Review] Briefs
Briefs January 13-22/ Idolize Spiegeltent, Parramatta ***1/2 Any Spiegeltent ensemble variety show has big shoes to fill, with the likes of La Clique and iOTA’s Smoke and Mirrors dazzling under the peaked tops over recent Sydney Festivals. As their opening night show in the Idolize Spiegeltent displayed (and with host Fez Fanaana’s size seventeen feet [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 446 (January 23), Performance/Dance.
Tags: Briefs, Peter Neathway, The Brag
[CABARET: Review] Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl
Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl Until January 29 / Famous Spiegeltent **** Having interviewed her (but thus far never seen her in the flesh) I was immensely curious to see what Melbourne-based international cabaret sensation Meow Meow would do with the covetable tent-pole show for Sydney Festival’s Famous Spiegeltent – a position previously occupied (and [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 445 (January 16), Performance/Dance.
Tags: Dee Jefferson, Meow Meow, The Brag
[DANCE: Review] Anatomy Of An Afternoon
Anatomy Of An Afternoon January 9-16 / Sydney Opera House ****1/2 Martin Del Amo and Paul White have brought a masterpiece to life with their staging of Vaslav Nijinsky’s controversial ballet, The Afternoon of a Faun. Re-named Anatomy of an Afternoon – for largely irrelevant conceptual reasons – this one-man ballet is a fascinating and [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2012 under Arts, Brag 445 (January 16), Performance/Dance.
Tags: Anatomy Of An Afternoon, Barlow Redfearn, The Brag
[DANCE: Review] Babel
Babel January 9-14 / Sydney Theatre **** Live music, acapella harmonies, theatre and dance – all these come together in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Babel, an epic synthesis of his stylistic and substantive concerns of recent years. Using the biblical story of Babel as the narrative backbone, and 18 dancers and musicians from different corners of [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2012 under Arts, Brag 445 (January 16), Performance/Dance.
Tags: Babel, Dee Jefferson, The Brag
[Spring Dance Festival 2011] Les Ballets C de la B
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 [...]
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