sydney festival 2014
Review :: Matmos
‘Weird’ isn’t a satisfactory term to describe the Sydney Festival performance of electronic duo Matmos. Backed with over twenty years of pure experimentation, even a party balloon was a fair game as an instrument.
Gallery: HIVE + 100 Million Nights at Sydney Opera House
Tyondai Braxton’s HIVE and 100 Million Nights, a collaboration between Canyons and visual artist Daniel Boyd, took the audience on a incandescent […]
Gallery + Review :: John Grant & John Murry – Sydney Festival
A double-dose of brutal honesty, self-loathing and lyrical beauty came in the form of John Grant and John Murry, performing together at Paradiso at Town Hall.
Review :: Gudirr Gudirr – Sydney Festival
This reviewer can barely distinguish contemporary dance from twerking, but one woman show, Gudirr Gudirr, ensured that anybody present would be touched by the masterful combination of dance, acrobatics, comedy and oral history.
Review :: Forklift – Sydney Festival
Forklift tells the story of a warehouse forklift operator just going about her business – the banal and boring activity of just moving about brown boxes. As it happens, her forklift isn’t simply moving boxes, but dancers…