Wesley Enoch's first Sydney Festival was buoyant with the sense of occasion anticipated in our interview last December. Some festival-goers have been excited by what they've experienced as "a decolonising of the festival," with its strong programming of Indigenous artists. Others have been thrilled by the sensory and formal adventurousness of a range of works. This E-dition is the first of two focused on the festival. Next week Nikki Heywood will respond to Still Life and Institute, Vick Van Hout to Prize Fighter, Blood on the Dance Floor and Huff and James Whiting to King Roger. We'll also address The Encounter, SHIT, The Season, Champions and have another look at Biographica. Elsewhere this week we take you to Venice, Pakistan and then Adelaide for something international from Lloyd Cole. Good to have you with us for 2017!
Keith & Virginia
SYDNEY FESTIVAL: SENSES AND CAUSESNikki Heywood finds herself, "senses upended," in the world of the deafblind in Michelle Stevens and Heather Lawson's Imagined Touch and is then witness to Dancenorth's delving into the nature of causality with Japanese collaborators in Spectra.
VENICE: SHIFTING GRAVITY'S CENTREJulie Vulcan describes profound efforts by Ukrainian, American and Australian artists (Casey Jenkins, James McAllister) to reorient thought and perception via the body in the Venice International Performance Art Week.
BRISBANE HAS A DANCE FESTIVAL Glyn Roberts, Co-Artistic Director of Brisbane's Supercell Dance Festival, talks RealTime through its substantial inaugural program, featuring a fascinating array of artists from Australia, UK, Switzerland and China.
SYDNEY FESTIVAL: DANCING NEW LIVES
Choreographer Eko Supriyanto's renowned Cry Jailolo and a new work Balabala (about female power) are entrancing dance works that celebrate young regional Indonesians' passionate engagement with their culture on the international stage.
SYDNEY FESTIVAL: AROMATICS OF THOUGHT
Cat Jones' Scent of Sydney draws Keith Gallasch literally by the nose into a world of personal reflections on the city triggered via smells associated with place, power, protest and nature in a wonderfully contemplative installation.
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SYDNEY FESTIVAL, BIOGRAPHICA
Alistair Noble applauds the Sydney Chamber Opera premiere of Mary Finsterer’s Biographica in which the composer "re-processes Renaissance musical language but not simply as pastiche; this is something more profound."
THE INTERACTING SYNTHESISER
Lloyd Cole's synthesiser creation, Identity vs Noise: 1Dn, commissioned by Adelaide’s EU Hawke Centre, allows audiences present and remote to collaborate on the music's evolution, becoming a metaphor for the Centre's focus on population and immigration movements.
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