ADELAIDE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ART With drawing at the core of its curriculum, leading artist teachers and successful graduates, this proudly independent art school is offering travel grants and scholarships and gaining a national profile.
SALAMANCA MOVES: DANCE DIVERSITY
Curator Kelly Drummond Cawthon tells RealTime about a must-see new Australian dance festival in Hobart that makes visible all kinds of dance, in theatres, public spaces and with communities and new technologies.
OZASIA FESTIVAL: EXORCISING AMERICA Toshiki Okada, writer-director of God Bless Baseball, tells Ben Brooker that though baseball is loved in Japan and Korea, it mirrors a problematic ongoing American cultural presence.
ELISION ENSEMBLE AT 30 Artistic Director Daryl Buckley reflects proudly on this new music ensemble’s bold venture, celebrated with an exhibition at RMIT Gallery and performances this week at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music.
IMAGINARY ECOLOGIES
Debra Petrovitch finds herself absorbed into the complex worlds, ideas, hope and fears suggested by Brisbane-based artist and academic Keith Armstrong’s solo show, Over Many Horizons, at Sydney’s UTS Gallery.
LIVING BENEATH LIFE With a turbulent score and great performances, Sydney Chamber Opera transforms the delirium of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground into a work that is as beautiful as it is existentially ugly.
2016 DARWIN FESTIVAL: THE ART OF COLLUSION A provocative play from Ireland about suicide, a participatory exercise in collective government from the Philippines and an Australian play about a child threatened by climate change, each “bring audiences closer to the process of theatre-making.”
2016 DARWIN FESTIVAL: PAST FUELS PRESENT
Tracks Dance Company walks its audience through a sacred landscape, filling it with dance; cross-gender Javanese dancer Rianto fuses ritual and modern forms; and Finucane & Smith juxtapose traditional cabaret with burlesque.
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