Wrapping Up the Week January 22, 2007
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We are just as sad as you are that this is the last week but there are still plenty of shows to see to make your Sydney Festival Experience complete.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“These crazy South Koreans are here to ensure there’s a lot of life left in Sydney Festival as it enters its final days.” Daily Telegraph Read more
“Outrageously tightly-choreographed and well-oiled while, at the same time, fresh and spontaneous.” Stagenoise.com Read more
Kaidan: A Ghost Story
Check out this video preview of Kaidan from Stagenoise.com
and this review by Stagenoise.com
After the shows don’t forget to head over to Beck’s Festival Bar or The Famous Spiegeltent to keep your evening bumping all night long!
Devolution January 16, 2007
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Can’t wait for Devolution at the CarriageWorks!
Check out the most recent Stagenoise.com podcast that includes an interview with Devolution’s choreographer, Garry Stewart. Click here
“With its sci-fi feel, sexy moves and electronica soundtrack, Devolution looks likely to appeal to the younger clubbing set as well as dance and theatre fans.”
Read this article on the Tele’s site.
About an Hour – Now Playing January 11, 2007
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Two of the About an Hour programs – Our Brief Eternity and Structure and Sadness – opened earlier this week and are running until Friday 12 January. With short, sociable performance times and a $25 price tag, these shows are not to be missed!
Telophaza – Review (Lola) January 9, 2007
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Another great review of Telophaza from Lola:
A few thoughts on Telophaza …
I liked it because of the way it made me feel. Watching the exceptionally talented Batsheva Dance Company’s Telophaza I caught myself smiling (a lot) along with many others around me. In a world that feels increasingly pessimistic Telophaza offered a welcome contrast.
I had expected something more serious, less irreverent; I hadn’t expected to laugh out loud, and certainly not to participate.
Zero Degrees – Review (Shivangi) January 9, 2007
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In a piece for the ‘What I’d do if I had the money’ series for The
Gurdian, Akram Khan once said, “I would spend the money to bring
artists from different genres together, artists who you wouldn’t
expect to work together – maybe a painter, a sculptor, a writer and a
film director.”
Khan’s latest production alchemically combines his Kathak-inspired
lightning-fast footwork with Sidi Larbi Charkaoui’s supple
contortions, Antony Gormley’s more-than-alive sculptures and Nitin
Sawhney’s haunting music. Zero Degrees, which opened the Sydney
Festival is a not-to-be-missed contemporary dance production rich in
meaning and experience.
Telophaza – Review (Gregory) January 7, 2007
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Thanks for Gregory Creighton for this great review of Telophaza:
“L’Apres Midi de la Dance”
Homage to Nijinsky and the Theatre of the Post Modern
“Telophaza” from its cheeky opening sequence of forty bottoms in the air beating hypnotically to the ancient Zorba the Greek soundtrack announces its style and themes. Fun, beauty, ensemble dance at its most austere, vibrant and serious- extending the modern dance form in a sophisticated entrepot of formal styles using diverse media.
Fergus Linehan displays extraordinary foresight challenging our audiences and educating our youth to alternative world class cultural expressions of a performing arts form where Australia has an enviable international reputation and cultural export commodity.
Zero Degrees January 7, 2007
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We made it along to Zero Degrees last night.
The show was awesome. Akram and Sidi have so much talent and energy.
It was a really polished performance that featured great music, lighting and choreography.
Full review on the way.
Zero Degrees & Akram Khan January 3, 2007
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“A harrowing subcontinental train journey influenced choreographer and dancer Akram Khan’s Sydney Festival show.”
“The work is all about borders, not only geographic and cultural but the borders between life and death, power and submission.”
Zero Degrees December 13, 2006
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Zero Degrees is the first work to be presented at Sydney’s newest performing arts venue, CarriageWorks. Staring Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkauio on stage, a score by Nitin Sawney and sculpture by Antony Gormley. Click here for reviews of Zero Degrees from London earlier this year. Did anyone see Akram Khan’s Ma (Sydney 2005?)
Telophaza December 13, 2006
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For the first time Sydney Festival will have a resident dance company performing three different works throughout the Festival. Telophaza will open the Festival at Capitol Theatre 6 January.
For show footage click here.
For show review click here
For a feature on Telophaza choreographer Ohad Naharin click here.
Zero Degrees November 3, 2006
Posted by bengum in CarriageWorks, zero degrees.3 comments
Zero degrees is at the new CarriageWorks venue and should be great. Nitin Sawney is doing the music and is a rocking DJ / producer. Check out his website.
