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Arts in the City / Irish dance gets a modern reboot

“Rhythms of Ireland”… everything old is new again

“THE Rhythms of Ireland” brings celebrated dancers in a show that places the ancient traditions of Irish dance and music in a contemporary showcase. At Canberra Theatre, Thursday, September 28. Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.

CLASSICAL guitarist Callum Henshaw’s latest program includes an Australian premiere of a new work by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer and folk-song arrangements by Miguel Llobet. Henshaw’s PhD recital concert is at the Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music, 6.30pm, September 29. Free event, all welcome.

Ben Drysdale and Ruth Pieloor in “Under Sedation”. Photo by HCreations

HOT on the University of Canberra’s “Poetry on the Move” festival heels comes The Street Theatre’s “Under Sedation: Canberra verse remixed”. Director Adele Chynoweth has taken the title from a poem by AD Hope, and with movement director Emma Strapps, actors Ben Drysdale and Ruth Pieloor, and designers Imogen Keen, Shoeb Ahmad and Linda Buck, created an in-the-round production honouring Canberra poets from the 1940s to the present. At The Street Theatre, September 30-October 14. Bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.

Flautist Jane Rutter.

CHRIS Latham’s ground-breaking musical project, “Flowers of War”, continues with “Monet’s Flowers of War”, featuring flautist Jane Rutter and projections of Claude Monet’s World War I paintings. At the NGA, 7.30pm, September 29 and 2pm, September 30. Bookings to trybooking.com

Dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman.

THE 2015 “CityNews” Artist of the Year, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, has been performing in choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan’s radical adaptation of “Swan Lake”. Initially a co-production for Sadler’s Wells, the Colours International Dance Festival, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Dublin Theatre Festival and Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg, the show has just been at Sydney Opera House.

THE 25th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla’s death has inspired Argentine pianist Marcela Fiorillo to honour his memory in “Piazzolla Tango” at the Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, at 6.30pm, on September 30. Bookings to marcelafiorillo.iwannaticket.com.au

Anne Masters inside her tiny gallery.

CANBERRA’S newest gallery – “gallery of small things” – is the brainchild of ceramicist Anne Masters, who says she will be focusing on “the little things in life that make us happy”. First up are 27 works by Greg Daly, Janet DeBoos, Joanne Searle, Hsin-Yi Yang, Fran Romano, Amanda Small, Anna Calluori Holcombe and Ben Carter. The opening exhibition, “3 Cubed” is based around the number three and runs from September 30 – for 33 days at 27 Wade Street, Watson.

Actor Lloyd Allison-Young.

THEATRE writer Joe Woodward has alerted us that one of the featured actors in the Australian comic movie “That’s Not Me” is a former Daramalan College drama student Lloyd Allison-Young.

“CANBERRA’S Embassies” is a new book by Dorothy Hart and illustrated by Isla Patterson, who has painted 36 of them. Former governor-general Michael Jeffery will launch the book at the National Library, 6pm, on Wednesday, September 27. It’s free but bookings to nla.gov.au or 6262 1424.

 

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