Branch Nebula demo’s evolution

Keith Gallasch

In DEMO, six young performers conjure a world of emergence, conflict, cooperation, cataclysm and resurgence with little more than agile bodies, skateboards, a BMX bike and trust in their collective strength.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 2: Breakout My Pelvic Sorcery

Keith Gallasch

Eugenie Lee’s multidisciplinary, collaborative VR creation for The Empathy Clinic asks health professionals to brave discombobulating discomfort in order to develop empathy for the sufferers of pelvic pain.

6 December 2019

Ensemble Offspring’s not so lonely hemispheres

Keith Gallasch

With compelling works expertly realised by Ensemble Offspring soloists, Australian composers Elizabeth Younan, Tristan Coehlo and Damien Ricketson constellate around those of Franco Donatoni and Luciano Berio.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 3: Altering states

Keith Gallasch

With psychological insight, passion, wit and magic in the face of trauma, prejudice and panic, six distinctive works convey complex states of being in search of empathy and release.

6 December 2019

Editorial 14 October 2019

Performance Space’s 2019 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art and Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia (image above: audience playing bankers in Ontroerend Goed’s £¥€$) both kick off in coming days with programs of rare intensity and invention. We guide you through their programs.

12 October 2019

2019 OzAsia Festival: Dissolving borders

Keith Gallasch

Festival Director Joseph Mitchell and Keith Gallasch discuss performances that will test forms, intensify audience experience and further cross-cultural collaboration, alongside a potently interdisciplinary visual arts program.

12 October 2019

Sue Healey: Adaptation vs ephemerality

Keith Gallasch

In a new Platform Paper, Capturing the Vanishing: A Choreographer and Film, Sue Healey eloquently details her struggle to sustain both artform and career by engaging with the screen as a legitimate site for dance.

12 October 2019

Liveworks 2019: Intimate, talkative, provocative

Keith Gallasch

With overlapping focus on Feminist Sound and Cultural Disruptors, this about to commence Festival of Experimental Arts features Chicks on Speed, Joel Bray, Vicki Van Hout, Gail Priest, Choy Ka Fai, Lauren Brincat, John Vea, Betty Grumble and more.

12 October 2019

Extended Play 2019: Expansive music

Keith Gallasch

Bracing and embracing, Extended Play’s 12-hour festival of new music featured, among many others, Margaret Leng Tan, Decibel, Nonsemble, Alex Waite, Synergy and Sonya Lifschitz in dynamic partnership with Christine Johnston at Sydney’s City Recital Hall.

12 October 2019

Rosalind Crisp’s environmental site-dance

Keith Gallasch

While admiring its beauty, Rosalind Crisp wittily and movingly transforms the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room into an exemplar of our problematic relationship with nature, drawing on her own life on the land and testing dance’s activist potential.

12 October 2019

Branch Nebula demo’s evolution

Keith Gallasch

In DEMO, six young performers conjure a world of emergence, conflict, cooperation, cataclysm and resurgence with little more than agile bodies, skateboards, a BMX bike and trust in their collective strength.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 2: Breakout My Pelvic Sorcery

Keith Gallasch

Eugenie Lee’s multidisciplinary, collaborative VR creation for The Empathy Clinic asks health professionals to brave discombobulating discomfort in order to develop empathy for the sufferers of pelvic pain.

6 December 2019

Ensemble Offspring’s not so lonely hemispheres

Keith Gallasch

With compelling works expertly realised by Ensemble Offspring soloists, Australian composers Elizabeth Younan, Tristan Coehlo and Damien Ricketson constellate around those of Franco Donatoni and Luciano Berio.

6 December 2019

The Big Anxiety 3: Altering states

Keith Gallasch

With psychological insight, passion, wit and magic in the face of trauma, prejudice and panic, six distinctive works convey complex states of being in search of empathy and release.

6 December 2019

Editorial 14 October 2019

Performance Space’s 2019 Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art and Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia (image above: audience playing bankers in Ontroerend Goed’s £¥€$) both kick off in coming days with programs of rare intensity and invention. We guide you through their programs.

12 October 2019

2019 OzAsia Festival: Dissolving borders

Keith Gallasch

Festival Director Joseph Mitchell and Keith Gallasch discuss performances that will test forms, intensify audience experience and further cross-cultural collaboration, alongside a potently interdisciplinary visual arts program.

12 October 2019

Sue Healey: Adaptation vs ephemerality

Keith Gallasch

In a new Platform Paper, Capturing the Vanishing: A Choreographer and Film, Sue Healey eloquently details her struggle to sustain both artform and career by engaging with the screen as a legitimate site for dance.

12 October 2019

Liveworks 2019: Intimate, talkative, provocative

Keith Gallasch

With overlapping focus on Feminist Sound and Cultural Disruptors, this about to commence Festival of Experimental Arts features Chicks on Speed, Joel Bray, Vicki Van Hout, Gail Priest, Choy Ka Fai, Lauren Brincat, John Vea, Betty Grumble and more.

12 October 2019

Extended Play 2019: Expansive music

Keith Gallasch

Bracing and embracing, Extended Play’s 12-hour festival of new music featured, among many others, Margaret Leng Tan, Decibel, Nonsemble, Alex Waite, Synergy and Sonya Lifschitz in dynamic partnership with Christine Johnston at Sydney’s City Recital Hall.

12 October 2019

Rosalind Crisp’s environmental site-dance

Keith Gallasch

While admiring its beauty, Rosalind Crisp wittily and movingly transforms the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room into an exemplar of our problematic relationship with nature, drawing on her own life on the land and testing dance’s activist potential.

12 October 2019