Everyday crisis-resilience

Ben Brooker: Emma Beech, Life is Short and Long

Celebrating Dada

Kleine Dada Soirée, Theo Van Doesburg + Kurt Schwitters, 1922, lithograph, MoMA, New York RealTime’s Found Reading feature provides you with links to insightful articles about the performing and media arts and arts politics. In The New York Review of Books, the great (now retired) classical pianist, Alfred Brendel reports seeing six recent exhibitions, including […]

Ordinary monsters, at a distance

Kirsten Krauth: Joe Cinque’s Consolation, the film

DVD: Ivan Sen’s Goldstone

Goldstone In Goldstone, a tense sequel to writer-director Ivan Sen’s widely admired thriller Mystery Road, Indigenous detective Jay Swan is sent to the mining town of Goldstone when a Chinese tourist is reported missing. For a surreally small town of scattered buildings it’s bursting with local government and corporate corruption, Chinese workers forced into prostitution […]

Performance vs rape culture

RealTime interview: Hellie Turner, Project Xan

Drawing: calm in chaos

Francis Russell: Gosia Wlodarczak, A Room Without A View (Extended)

The ambiguous cry of blood

Andrew Fuhrmann: Nacera Belaza, Sarah-Jane Norman, Border Lines

Melbourne Fringe: The beauty of bafflement

Andrew Fuhrmann

In the Melbourne Fringe, Andrew Furhrmann discovers dance works by Nebahat Erpolat, Chad McLachlan and Zac Jones which defy literal interpretation, delighting audiences with degrees of sheer strangeness.

Internationals, locals, any body & every body

Lucy Hawthorne: Salamanca Moves

A festival grounded in transitional space

Jana Perkovic: Ruhrtriennale 2015-2017

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”