RealTime E-dition 1 March 2016

RealTime E-dition

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Go global in this E-dition and immerse yourself in vivid accounts of remarkable theatre, contemporary performance and live art works in festivals from Bristol (In Between Time) to Tehran (Fadjr International Theatre Festival), Vancouver (PuSh) and Melbourne (Asia TOPA). Our writers convey a shared sense of immediacy in the face of works that enchant, thrill, bemuse or bewilder and reflect on ever-unfolding challenges to expectations in an era of sustained invention and diversification. Next Wave's Lukautim Solwara (image above) for Asia TOPA was one such work. There's also a richly informative interview with Singapore's Ho Tzu Nyen and Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk about their new work, Anti—Gravity, coming soon to Asia TOPA. Meanwhile, Powerhouse Youth Theatre mounts a timely new season of Tribunal, a performative Australian Truth and Reconciliation Tribunal led by an Aboriginal Elder and featuring refugees among the performers.

Keith & Virginia

ASIA TOPA: CURIOSITY, CLOUDS, RELEASE Andrew Fuhrmann interviews Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen and Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk about ANTI—GRAVITY, a collaboration in which ideas, Eastern and Western, about the body, spirit and clouds manifest in dance and design.

IBT17: PHASES AND FACES At In Between Time, Cock and Bull, Forced Entertainment, Lucy McCormick and Dickie Beau transport Timothy X Atack with the thrill of not-knowing, of absorption in relentless looping and awe at the transformable body.

ASIA TOPA: DISASTER MEDITATIONS Kagerou and Time's Journey Through a Room—two subtly engaging productions from Japan made in the wake of "Fukushima"—compel John Bailey to address our use of words such as "sympathy" and "closure" and how we name disasters.

IRAN ONSTAGE From melodrama to site works, Iranian productions in the Fadjr International Theatre Festival in Tehran display "highly skilled performances, a mastery of storytelling and the subtle political jab," writes Megan Garrett-Jones.

SPATIAL EFFECTS, NARRATIVE DISTRACTIONS The appeal of performances in Vancouver's PuSh Festival that evince the materiality of bodies and spaces is lessened as artists push for meaning, writes Alex Lazaridis Ferguson, also noting the theatrical genre-fication of durational performance.

IBT17: GHOSTS AND BONES AND ANGELS
In Bristol at the In Between Time Festival, Osunwunmi finds herself in a cemetery (playing dead), participating in secular vespers and then voodoo dancing ("You're all going to die, so dance!"). Live art, full of lateral life lessons.

ASIA TOPA:
OF SPORT AND GODS
John Bailey writes of mallakhamb, an ancient Indian sport juxtaposed with circus art in Circa's One Beautiful Thing, that it's fascinatingly "not quite like anything else." In Next Wave's Lukautim Solwara, wonderful god-like figures embodied by Maori, Pasifika and Aboriginal artists performed amid Indigenous artworks at ACCA.

CRISIS FACE TO FACE
Artistic Director Karen Therese tells RealTime that the Powerhouse Youth Theatre production Tribunal is more timely than ever as 6,000 refugees from the Syrian crisis arrive in Western Sydney's Fairfield. Tribunal is showing now.

GIVEAWAY: KEN LOACH'S I, DANIEL BLAKE ON DVD
An artist peaking late in his career, British filmmaker Ken Loach's latest film has been met with far-reaching critical acclaim and political debate. It's the story of an older working-class man who finds emotional solidarity with others discarded by government.

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