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Wednesday 22 May 2013
Art Arts

q&a: myriam gourfink on ‘breathing monster’

Sophie Lamond
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    Internationally renowned choreographer Myriam Gourfink and electronic musician Kasper Toeplitz will present Breathing Monster from the 14th to the 16th of June in the National Art School’s Cell Block Theatre. The work is a meditation on slowness and control, fusing together extreme physicality and experimental sound to contemplate the relationship between humans and…
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Tuesday 30 April 2013
Art Arts

exhibition review: ‘hollywood costume’ invites viewers behind the silver screen

Amy Nicholls-Diver
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  The show-stopping exhibition Hollywood Costume opened at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne last week. Direct from London’s Victoria and Albert museum, the exhibition is sure to draw in seamstresses to cinephiles alike. Hollywood Costume features over 100 costumes, painstakingly gathered from private collections over a five-year period. No genre…
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Tuesday 30 April 2013
Art Arts

natalie abbott’s ‘physical fractals’: a hypnotic dance work comes to sydney

Grace Carroll
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  A dance work that captivates ‘an audience so much that they are actively engaging with the performance’ is how choreographer and performer Natalie Abbott describes Physical Fractals, her latest piece. Following on from its recent inclusion in Melbourne’s Dance Massive, where it both impressed and disorientated audiences, the piece will be performed at Sydney’s PACT Centre For Emerging Artists later…
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Thursday 18 April 2013
Art Arts Featured Theatre

‘pea’: a playful production for kids big & small

Grace Carroll
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‘Kids and adults alike will be taken on a journey’ promises Cathy Petocz, the star of Pea. This inventive interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea is premiering at the Street Theatre, Canberra this month. I had a chat to Petocz to find out all about the show, from…
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Friday 12 April 2013
Art Arts Featured Theatre

q&a: comedian pippa evans

Amy Nicholls-Diver
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  Pippa Evans is a comedian who isn’t afraid to tackle controversial topics. Fascinated by her performance, Bipolar, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I sat down with Evans to discuss comedy, feminism and her outspoken character Loretta Maine. While your character, Loretta Maine, is quite bawdy and shocking, a lot of what she says is thought-provoking. Do…
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Wednesday 10 April 2013
Art Arts Featured Theatre

fire, tango and more submissive female leads: bilbobasso comes to Freo

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There is a scene in the headline act of the Fremantle Street Arts Festival, a show by French company Bilbobasso, where the leading lady dances for the leading man, trying to convince him to come back to her. She dances with what look like the bones of two enormous metal fans, a series of lit…
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Saturday 6 April 2013
Art Arts Featured

exhibition review: glorious days

Grace Carroll
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  I have been nostalgic about the past for as long as I can remember. The clothing, technology and society of bygone eras have always seemed far more interesting to me than the present day. This interest in mind, I found myself drawn to the new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, which…
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Friday 5 April 2013
Art Arts Theatre

comedy review: nina conti’s ‘dolly mixtures’

Amy Nicholls-Diver
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Nina Conti returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for another year of puppetry and improv with her latest show, Dolly Mixtures. The versatile ventriloquist introduces a range of new characters including her child, Nina, a former philosophy professor, and hunky builder, Stefan. The show combines Conti’s self-referential humour with the risky element of audience…
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Thursday 4 April 2013
Art Arts Theatre

comedy review: loretta maine’s ‘bipolar’

Alexandra Storey
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    Last night I found myself lined up outside the Powder Room of Melbourne’s Town Hall, waiting to go see Loretta Maine’s new show, Bipolar, part of this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  I had never heard of Loretta Maine before, but a quick Google on my phone assured me that she was ‘sexy’ and ‘psychotic.’ …
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Wednesday 3 April 2013
Art Arts Featured Theatre

comedy review: frank woodley and simon yates’ ‘inside’

Amy Nicholls-Diver
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  Inside is a captivating and bizarre show by Frank Woodley and acrobat/physical comedian Simon Yates. Performed in the Famous Spiegeltent as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Inside is a must-see for those looking some something out-there this comedy season. It is edgy and often nonsensical, reminiscent of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist plays. Woodley’s…
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Tuesday 5 March 2013
Art Culture Fashion

career girl: chatting with ruby barnett, owner of frith st

Zoya Patel
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A little while ago, I wrote about my secret ambition to one day own and run a small business. Although for me that’s still a pipedream, I’m lucky to know an inspiring young woman who has realised that ambition for herself. Ruby Barnett is now the proud owner/manager of a boutique vintage store, Frith St,…
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Monday 4 March 2013
Art Arts Featured

exhibition review: toulouse-lautrec – paris and the moulin rouge

Grace Carroll
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    Prostitutes, drunkards and erotic dancers. These were amongst the favourite subjects of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), whose art is the subject of a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge is composed of more than 100 works spanning his brief yet celebrated career. This includes…
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Tuesday 26 February 2013
Art Featured

papergirl brisbane: global street art project hits australia

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  Public art is a tricky beast: great in theory, not always in practice. Everyone has an example in their own city or hometown of public art gone horribly wrong. Sometimes the best kind of public art is the unsanctioned kind – graffiti, street art, paste-ups, flash mobs, anything that uses public space in a…
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Monday 18 February 2013
Art Arts Featured

exhibition review: anish kapoor

Grace Carroll
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  A larger-than-life circular mirror angled to reflect the clouds above. The aptly-titled Sky Mirror (2006) graces the lawn outside Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), which is currently showing a major exhibition by the artist behind this intriguing work, Anish Kapoor. Provocative yet majestic, Sky Mirror makes a striking appearance in Circular Quay and,…
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