Review: Football collides with contemporary dance in ‘Champions’ (Sydney Festival)
Hate sport? Love dance? Vice versa? ‘Champions’ at Sydney Festival just might bring you around to both.
Hate sport? Love dance? Vice versa? ‘Champions’ at Sydney Festival just might bring you around to both.
Moses Sumney warmed the Spiegeltent with hypnotic loops, self deprecating banter and a song dedicated to Sydney’s housing market.
“When I can, I’ll play a venue that reflects how sacred music is to me, and a church seems to be the perfect place. The acoustics are great and people are terrified of speaking, so it works out.”
Hayley Fohr, aka Circuit des Yeux, speaks to Peter Hollo on Utility Fog about her ever-deepening baritone vocals and what we can expect from her intimate Sydney Festival show.
“I love Joanna Newsom’s music to an extent that’s unseemly, which means that there’s a lot of potential for expectations to remain unfulfilled.”
There are some monster gigs this week, including Canadian punks Viet Cong, Lou Barlow helping to close the 2016 Sydney Festival, and Melbourne’s Gold Class.
‘Cut The Sky’ is precisely the kind of original work Sydney Festival should be championing: a dance work from Broome that brings distinctly Australian voices to life in our most iconic building.
When Kate Tempest speaks, you listen.
Whether it’s traditional dance styles from East Arnhem Land or bootyshaking Missy Elliott would be proud of, the boys of Djuki Mala perform with pure joy.
In town for Sydney Festival, the experimental Norwegian singer-songwriter speaks frankly about growing up in Christian-dominated Oslo, sexuality and the politics of counter-culture.