Virginia Baxter & Keith Gallasch appointed Members (AM) of the Order of...
The Editors Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch have been appointed Members (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) by the Governor-General with effect from 26 January 2022. The citation...
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re:group, COIL: Looping loss & laughter
re:group’s live-cinema event COIL is an astonishingly multi-layered, funny-sad eulogy for, among other things, the demise of video rental stores around Australia, including the wonderful Film Club in...
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Life on the edge: Suzon Fuks’ Be Like Body—Obsolete #4
The viewer of Brisbane-based multidisciplinary artist Suzon Fuks’ Be Like Body—Obsolete #4 first experiences a sense of flight into a slow turning spiral, a galaxy perhaps, its starry tendrils curling...
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WE ARE HERE’s Radical Transparency: resurrecting dance
In March, WE ARE HERE Company, co-founded by Parramatta-based FORM Dance Projects and choreographer Emma Saunders, staged Radical Transparency, a vivid depiction of the anxieties and survival tactics,...
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Kaz Therese’s Sleeplessness: Art and trauma
Afforded the ‘luxury’ of retirement, my response to Kaz Therese’s Sleeplessness honours this little reviewed, culturally significant performance by documenting and interpreting it in warranted detail....
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Raghav Handa, Follies of God: A dance for life
“Over-interpretation is just the name we give to the moment when criticism admits — gives a gasp at — the gap between form and content.” TJ Clark, art historian Raghav Handa’s Follies of God, part of...
View ArticleWord dance: Nikki Heywood & Mark Cauvin, Broadcast into Oblivion
In our RealTime review-writing workshops conducted around Australia and overseas for many years, we discouraged learner reviewers from evoking the weather experienced before or at a performance (“It...
View ArticleNight Songs: Pied Butcherbird, centre-stage
Superbly carrolling and chorusing all day long, the resident magpies in our inner city suburban street constantly bring to mind Night Songs, performed as part of Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival...
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Liveworks 2023: Brooke Stamp, Mickey, Amplifying dance’s psyche
Perhaps it was the rejection of the proposed Voice for Australia’s First Nations peoples; the public refusal, or inability, to understand or acknowledge difference. Perhaps it was the massacre in...
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Digital Native: the art of Jenny Fraser, playful provocateur
Jenny Fraser is a tough-minded, playful provocateur, a bricoleur who will use whatever media and images are at hand to celebrate First Nations culture and to right the enduring wrongs done by racist...
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