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RealTime dances: the big picture

Erin Brannigan

Erin Brannigan takes on the monumental task of surveying RealTime’s committed engagement with Australian contemporary dance from state to state, in theatres, galleries, onscreen, in digital interactions and Indigenous practices.

17 July 2019

The slow retreat of reality: liveness in Melbourne performance

Jana Perkovic

Jana Perkovic analyses the rise and decline since 2005 of liveness in Melbourne theatre and performance; the notion of ‘you had to be there’ weakening as the digital record supplants presence.

16 July 2019

Scene changes: Mapping Melbourne theatre 2005-2015

Andrew Fuhrmann

Andrew Fuhrmann traces his performance-going trajectories 2005-15, reflecting on a theatre culture that once worked in the fringes and revelled in them, creating its own public spaces and demanding attention.

16 July 2019

Editorial 15 April 2019

Welcome and farewell. Farewell to RealTime, a 25-year publishing adventure that has come to a celebratory conclusion and welcome to the RealTime Archive, a massive documentation of a period of remarkable transformation driven by the artists who inspired us and to whom we and our many writers creatively responded.

16 April 2019

In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, the exhibition

Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter

This innovative UNSW Library exhibition features displays and live presentations by Martin Del Amo, Branch Nebula and Vicki Van Hout reflecting on their works and the critical response to them.

16 April 2019

Trove & The Realtime Archive: A Guide

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

UNSW Library and the National Library of Australia have partnered to place digitised RealTime editions 1994-2015 on the NLA’s TROVE website, in recognition of the historical and cultural value of the magazine. And see what’s new in the upgraded RealTime website.

16 April 2019

Martin Del Amo: In response…

Martin Del Amo

Dancemaker Martin Del Amo tellingly juxtaposes Heidrun Löhr’s photographs of his creations across his career with intimate and extensive reflections on the works and the RealTime reviews.

15 April 2019

You’re invited to the RealTime Archive Launch

Virginia Baxter & Keith Gallasch

At 6pm, 17 April at the UNSW Library Exhibition Space. Professor Sarah Miller AM will launch the archiving of the 130 RealTime print editions 1994-2015 on the National Library of Australia’s TROVE website in partnership with UNSW Library. We hope to see you there.

15 April 2019

In Response… Artists in Action

Keith Gallasch

Keith Gallasch witnesses the three live presentations made for In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, in which Martin Del Amo, Branch Nebula and Vicki Van Hout idiosyncratically animated their installations.

15 April 2019

In Response: Dialogues with RealTime: the catalogue

Keith Gallasch

Essays by John Baylis, Lizzie Thompson and Amanda Card reflect on the relationship between performance and RealTime review in the works of Branch Nebula, Vicki Van Hout and Martin Del Amo.

15 April 2019

Andrée Greenwell’s Cinéaste: reflections & refractions

Keith Gallasch

Cinéaste Vol. 1 is a fascinating assemblage that allows composer Greenwell to lovingly reflect on the idiom of film scoring and to inventively refract her own compositions, yielding aural gems: riffs, ostinatos, hooks and soundscapes, the stuff of movies actual and imagined.

5 October 2021

Sky Blue Mythic: Angela Goh’s fantastical myth-making

Keith Gallasch

More essay than review, Keith Gallasch’s response to Angela Goh’s Sky Blue Mythic explores the relationship between experiencing a powerfully disconcerting work, reviewing it and engaging with the artist’s account of it.

26 July 2021

Narcifixion: Watching the narcissists

Keith Gallasch

Anton’s vigorously propulsive, grimly funny dance work, Narcifixion, about screen-bred narcissism provokes Keith Gallasch, watching a finely streamed performance, to appreciate the logic of its structure and respond to its account of a complex condition.

17 June 2021

Rakini Devi’s nightwork: the performer as visual artist

Keith Gallasch

The exhibition Inhabiting Erasures powerfully attests to a passion to arrest the wrongs done to women, conjures a magical otherworld of female strength and beauty and exquisitely reveals painting to be the foundation of Devi’s practice.

2 June 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

12 March 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

12 March 2021

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”

12 March 2021

Excellent everyday Kathak: Raghav Handa’s TWO

Keith Gallasch

With amusing conversation and exquisite partnering dancer Raghav Handa and tabla player Maharshi Raval reveal much about collaboration, Kathak dance and the testing of boundaries.

25 February 2021

Album review: Offspring Bites 3: En Masse

Keith Gallasch

From Ensemble Offspring potent works by Alex Pozniak (dramatically assaying weight in music), Holly Harrison (a witty take on instrumental and other distortions) and Thomas Meadowcroft (a gently vibrating meditation that opens out to a pulsing expansive vision).

25 February 2021

Editorial Thursday 27 August 2020

Keith Gallasch & Virginia Baxter

The highly successful 2019 exhibition In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, which celebrated the interplay between RealTime and the artists Martin del Amo, Vicki Van Hout and Branch Nebula, is now exhibited online. We also interview instigator and co-curator Dr Erin Brannigan about her motivation for mounting this innovative exhibition. In another bold archival venture, Madeleine Hodge and Sarah Rodigari have created Timely Readings, a visual mapping of live art in Australia.

27 August 2020