Sunday, February 28, 2016
Luckiest Productions & Tinderbox Productions. Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, February 23. RESISTANCE is useless Earthlings. Little Shop of Horrors is back and roaring for warm blood. Human bl…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Dance Dialogues, Brisbane, February 20. Classical ballet is the oddest thing. It has a tiny core repertoire " fewer than 20 works; perhaps less than 15 if you're being very strict " that def…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:01AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Perth International Arts Festival, February 11. Mostly when we see Kathak dance it is in the exhilarating contemporary form created by Akram Khan. Khan, who is of Bangladeshi heritage but bo…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Victoria Hall, Fremantle, February 12 It would be so easy, one imagines, for Claire Cunningham's Guide Gods to be bristling with anger and reproach as it considers how religion deals with di…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Five by Night, West Australian Ballet, Perth, February 10 The Quarry Amphitheatre is one of the loveliest performing arts venues in the world. The former limestone quarry is situated in bush…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Stephanie Lake Company, Carriageworks, January 19. Melbourne, February 15-20; Brisbane, February 22. Stephanie Lake has danced with most of Australia's best contemporary dance-makers and …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
Sydney Festival, January 8. The Hans Christian Andersen tale on which Meow Meow has based her new show is typically gruesome: an innocent young creature gladly endures unspeakable agonies in…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:25AM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
AT the Sydney Theatre Awards no one need ever fear a journalist asking them "who are you wearing" or indeed have any need of a stylist. There is no red carpet at the Paddington RSL, there ar…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
In 2011 the Brisbane Festival program included the celebrated Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B with Out of Context " for Pina, a tribute to the towering choreographer who died in 2009. …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
Sydney Opera House, January 9. In 1999 Jack Anderson reviewed Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich for The New York Times, reporting that Flemish choreographer Anne Teresa De Kee…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
THE last crumbs of Christmas cake have scarcely been brushed from the lips, the last Champagne bottles are not yet in the recycling bin and New Year's resolutions are still full of shiny pot…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 31, 2015
One person's best is another person's "I can't believe we saw the same show". Which if course we never do or can. We each bring to the theatre our history, our personality, our experiences, …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
We'll get to the year's most interesting work and dancers shortly but 2015 was also notable for offstage developments, particularly at Australia's three leading classical companies, The Aust…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 24, 2015
Capitol Theatre, Sydney, December 17. A new production of Fiddler on the Roof has just opened in New York, directed by Broadway revival rainmaker Bartlett Sher. The musical, created in 1964,…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:56AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
Revelations in New York, stars made at The Australian Ballet, Alina Cojocaru in Brisbane and more … The Australian Ballet dubbed its 2015 season A Year of Beauty. Giselle, Swan Lake, Cinde…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 07:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
Serendib, also spelled Serendip, Arabic SarandÄ«b, name for the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The name, Arabic in origin, was recorded in use at least as early as AD 361 and for a ti…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:02PM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2015
Carriageworks, Sydney, December 9. SOMETIMES it's about getting experience, sometimes it's about getting the kind of exposure that can really pay dividends. Sydney Dance Company's New Breed …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
THE quiet suburban studio where seven young women are taking class is nothing special; just the usual anonymous space with an array of barres and a piano in the corner. What lifts it out of …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:05PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 27. OCHRES is embedded in Bangarra history and the memories of dance-lovers. Created in the company's early days, not long after Stephen Page became artistic …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:50AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
Queensland Theatre Company, Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, November 19 BY the end of Ladies in Black its sweet, gawky duckling of a heroine has been transformed into a soig…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:26PM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
Squabbalogic Independent Music Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, November 20. On Monday night I went to an inspiring meeting in Sydney organised by Women in Theatre and Screen " WITS " to dis…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
Carriageworks, Sydney, November 17. As the audience entered the large Carriageworks auditorium Xavier Le Roy was already in attendance, looking about in mildly interested fashion. Dressed in…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
Sydney Opera House, November 5 After a year dominated by Giselle, Frederick Ashton's The Dream, Alexei Ratmansky's Cinderella, the lavish new Sleeping Beauty and Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, t…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, October 23 and October 24 It is something of an understatement to say Greg Horsman knows The Sleeping Beauty well. Not only was it the first ballet he saw, the one t…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:08AM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
Belvoir, September 23 Nikolai Ivanov sits on a sofa looking desolate as the Lebedevs' party swirls around him. He's heading towards 40, he has no money, his relations give him grief, he's gi…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A year into his artistic directorship, Francesco Ventriglia talks about his goals for Royal New Zealand Ballet and his first program for the company  "My life is where I can have a theatr…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2015
Sydney Dance Company with ACO2 and Katie Noonan. Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney, September 29. BENJAMIN Britten was in his 20s when he wrote the three works to which Rafael Bonachel…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
Dumy Moyi, Carriageworks, Sydney, September 30; Departures, Ken Unsworth Studio, Sydney, October 1. In the recent exhibition of dance and the moving image, 24 Frames per Second, staged beaut…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Melbourne, September 15 THE Australian Ballet and its audiences have a great deal invested in David McAllister's new Sleeping Beauty, in both senses of the word. The first is financial: this…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:14AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
High Society, Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, September 7;Â Anything Goes, Sydney Opera House, September 8Â Â Â IN one giddy night of mayhem, pairs of lovers " former, would-be, should-be…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:26PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
The Aliens, Old Fitz Theatre, August 27; La Traviata, Belvoir Downstairs, September 1; Bull, Old Fitzroy Theatre, September 3 AMERICAN playwright Annie Baker has been mentioned, many times, …
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