dance
“Opal Vapour”
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal
The Street Theatre
June 14
Reviewed by Samara Purnell
THE Australian Dance Theatre’s production of “G” is performing at the Canberra Theatre until tonight. Photographer Brent McDonald captured a gallery of photos from the work at yesterday’s media call. Bookings to 6275 2700 or canberratheatrecentre.com.au
OPALS, so dancer Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal says, “are ancient stones created as the last remnants of water are drained from the land.” That idea was the inspiration for a dance, sound and light show to be called “Opal Vapour,” created by Tunggal with lighting designer Paula van Beek and traditional Javanese singer Ria Soemardjo, [...]
WHY did the Australian Dance Theatre choose the letter G as the title for the dance work we’ll be seeing soon? Could it stand for Garry, the audacious choreographer? Or is it short for “Giselle”? After all, Garry Stewart, who cheekily reworked “Swan Lake” into “Birdbrain”, is known to have had the ghostly 19th century [...]
dance
“InFlight”
Presented by Liz Lea & Co.,
At the National Library, season closed
Reviewed by Bill Stephens
FEW people are aware that Australia is home to the world’s oldest and largest rock art landscape. We may marvel at ancient rock art in France and Spain,but the rock art on the Burrup/Murujuga Peninsula on WA’s Pilbara coast is as ancient and stunning. Former French President Jacques Chirac knew it, and took a keen [...]
THE Telopea Chamber Players comprising students and staff at Telopea Park School will present a varied program in their Wednesday Lunchtime Live Concert at the Wesley Music Centre tomorrow, June 19 from 12.40pm to 1.20pm. The program includes works by Bach, Beethoven and Bozza featuring solo piano, classical guitar and trombone. The Chamber Players present [...]
AWGIE award-winning playwright and actor Stephen House is at The Street this week to take audiences into the seedy Paris underworld, from the banks of the Seine to the all-night sleazy clubs. Very simply, House plays a homeless man “weaving the shuttles of memory back and forth until the whole threadbare fabric of his life [...]
POLICE have released images of a man who robbed a Tuggeranong manchester store at knifepoint yesterday. Around 12.30pm the man entered the manchester store inside the Tuggeranong Hyperdome and started looking at items on display. When he was approached by a store employee who offered assistance, the man pulled a small knife from within his jacket, picked [...]
DETAILED maps showing construction of the National Broadband Network in Aranda, Belconnen and parts of Macquarie and Cook were released today. Federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh says construction will start in Belconnen, bringing the NBN to hundreds of local homes. “The National Broadband Network is about preparing Australia for the future. It’s about ensuring that our [...]
