Arts in the city • DURING a coffee interview session last week, author/speechwriter Bob Ellis, kept looking nervously at his mobile phone. “I’m waiting on a call from Kamahl,” he told me, adding that he’d…
CANBERRA Repertory is celebrating its 80th birthday next year and its 2012 season will be all about people. And what a lot of friends this grand dame of the theatre has! One of Rep’s younger…
ADELINA Larsson is the director of Canberra’s Short+Sweet Dance Festival, an offshoot of the hugely successful Short+Sweet drama initiative, founded several years ago by Mark Cleary from Newtown Theatre in Sydney, and now the biggest little-play festival…
WHEN you’re talking about a ballet production of “Cinderella”, it doesn’t do to get too intellectual. After all, as ballerina Yu Takayama, from the WA Ballet, points out to me, it’s essentially a romantic work….
A MELANCHOLY note was struck by Canberra Repertory’s president Judi Crane on Friday, November 4 as she helped unveil the first of the company’s productions planned for its 80th birthday next year. As a former…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
