Melbourne Festival review: If These Walls Could Talk
Highlight: Strong Australian performances. Reviewer rating: Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars DANCE IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK Dislocate, Arts Centre Melbourne Until October 26 Australian performance has been...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Circa meets Debussy
Opus ★★★★☆ Circa and Debussy String Quartet State Theatre, season ended Presented in the Melbourne Festival alongside...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Circa meets Debussy in Opus
Reviewer rating: Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars OPUS CIRCUS Circa and Debussy String Quartet State Theatre, season ended Presented in the Melbourne Festival...
View ArticleSUMMERFEST SURPRISES
">La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest Here are its key components: Thematic inspiration Building a program that is coherent, engaging and entertaining is no small task, and one effective way to do...
View ArticleInternational Circa ‘S’ is coming to town - 11/8/2014 (Mildura Rural City...
(Source: Mildura Rural City Council) A circus of a different kind is heading to Mildura with Mildura Arts Centre presenting 'S' by Circa on Saturday 16 August. 'S' by Circa is an amazing performance...
View ArticleThe Ives Quartet begins their season with operatic influences
This season the San Francisco performances of the subscription concerts offered by the Ives Quartet (violinists Bettina Mussumeli and Susan Freier, violist Jodi Levitz, and cellist Stephen Harrison)...
View ArticleBorodin Quartet review: Lack of energy in Musica Viva show at Melbourne...
Reviewer rating: Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars BORODIN QUARTET ★★☆ Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Melbourne Recital Centre September 27 One of the stalwarts of the chamber music scene was back in town for a...
View ArticleCultural exchanges with Asia help artists improve relations
AS I write, artists and performers are creating Australia's cultural future in studios, on stages, in communities and concert halls across Asia. From five leading writers on a 2000km rail journey...
View ArticleCross-arts: June monthly round up (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) For immediate release: 19 April 2013 June sees the launch of Beyond Barbican, a summer of events outside the walls of the Centre that includes pop-up performances, commissions...
View ArticleScaled-up centenary collection set for Canberra
Media call at the Canberra Theatre for the season launch of Collected Works. An excerpt from Wunderkammer performed by Freyja Edney. Photo: Melissa Adams As part of the celebration of Canberra's...
View ArticleThe Musical Concepts collection of Shostakovich’s string quartets
One cannot appreciate the music of Dmitri Shostakovich without including his string quartets. His widow went as far as to call this collection of his music a “diary, the story of his soul;” a remark...
View ArticleBrisbane arts year in review: Top 5 dance/cabaret shows in 2013
360 Allstars is in action at the Judith Wright Centre this week. Photo: Supplied As 2013 draws to a close, Brisbane Times arts editor and reviewer Natalie Bochenski looks back on the best of the...
View ArticleMelbourne festival runs away with the circus in 2014 programme
International circus troupes take centre stage in a festival line-up that aims to surprise, says director Josephine Ridge ...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Lobkowitz and Dvorak's American at Quartetthaus
MUSIC ANAM Quartetthaus Program B1 Quartetthaus, South Melbourne Until October 18 ★★★☆ In a square box on a patch of ground in South Melbourne, ANAM's Quartetthaus...
View ArticleHow Like An Angel, Ripon Cathedral, July 19-20
How Like An Angel, Ripon Cathedral, July 19-20 RIPON Cathedral will play host to the British premiere of How Like An Angel, a combination of perilous Australian circus skills and I Fagiolini’s choral...
View ArticlePhilip Glass opera leads Brisbane Festival lineup
Several top international acts will be part of artistic director Noel Staunton's swansong ...
View ArticleReview, Music@Menlo: infused with Bach's influence
Bach's legacy, which is the focus of this summer's Music@Menlo chamber music festival, encompasses a wealth of genres and styles. But nothing in the musical world says "Bach" quite as unmistakably as...
View ArticleBarbican Theatre and Dance: January - June 2014 (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) The Barbican today announces the full line-up of shows in the Barbican Theatre, The Pit and Silk Street Theatre from January to June 2014 completing the season of productions...
View ArticleChen Zhao offers a diverse violin recital at the Conservatory
Related topics classicalSF Conservatorychamber musicsecular cantataskeyboard music Advertisement Last night’s Faculty Artist Series recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music by violinist Chen...
View ArticleConcert Hour: Borodin Quartet Pt. 2/2
Russia and Beethoven - it's a theme expansive enough for a season of shows, as the Beethovenfest Bonn is proving by presenting Beethoven's string quartets alongside those of great Russian composers....
View ArticleCirca's jaw-dropping circus tricks – in pictures
In their new show, Opus, the Australian troupe Circa combine staggering acrobatics with Shostakovich string quartets. Take a whirl through some of the other surprises in the company's colourful past ...
View ArticleWunderkinder: Circa's Wunderkammer
The dark auditorium at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is quiet, but you can feel the excitement in the air. Jessica Connell is perched on a trapeze in a single spotlight as a piece of...
View ArticleCircus, the new frontier
They call the scene “Crack”. Given the back-breaking risks that the Australian contemporary circus company have put on display, this sounds painful. The extraordinary acrobats of the Brisbane-based...
View ArticleFantastic feats
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View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Nanjing Project still a work in progress
Reviewer rating: Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars CIRCUS NANJING PROJECT A Melbourne-Nanjing Collaboration National Institute of Circus Arts, Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Flying Fruit Fly Circus Fairfax Studio,...
View ArticleAustralian Brandenburg Orchestra announces 2015 season
Vivaldi meets Moroder: Paul Dyer, artistic director of the Brandenburg Orchestra, will bring synthesisers to the concert hall. Photo: Jessica Hromas/Getty Images As it enters its 26th year, the...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Nanjing Project - Creative partnership a work in...
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL CIRCUS Nanjing Project ★★★ A Melbourne-Nanjing Collaboration National Institute of Circus Arts, Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Flying Fruit Fly Circus Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre...
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Carlo Zeccola /arts/stories/2013/08/20/3829882-mediarss.xml Posted: Monday, 26 August 2013 at 10:44am Brisbane-based circus company Circa have returned to Melbourne to perform Wunderkammer at...
View ArticleTheatre/Dance 2013 - How Like An Angel (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) Circa and I Fagiolini How Like An Angel Beyond Barbican: St Bartholomew the Great, London, UK Tuesday 25 - Friday 28 June 2013 (6 performances) Press night: Wednesday 26 June,...
View ArticlePlay reveals animal inside us
Today more and more circus shows eschew the big top tradition of flashy costumes, clowns and animals – and Australian company Circa, who perform in the NZ Festival, are part of the vanguard. The show...
View ArticleWin a weekend at Treasury Casino and Hotel and see a Brisbane Festival highlight
Opus is a key attraction on the Brisbane Festival program. Photo: Darcy Grant To celebrate Brisbane Festival, we’ve got a total of four great prizes to giveaway in the four weeks leading up to...
View ArticleCirca's S brings raw circus to Canberra
S. Circa. Directed by Yaron Lifschitz. Produced by Danielle Kellie. Canberra Theatre, August 6 to 9, 7.30pm. Tickets $35-$55. Bookings: canberraticketing.com.au or 6275 2700....
View ArticleCross-arts: February 2014 monthly round-up (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) Barbican February highlights In February, a new immersive art installation from art and design studio United Visual Artists (UVA) opens in the Curve. A Midsummer Night's...
View ArticleWin tickets to Circa's S
Circa's Helpmann Award-winning ensemble creation S is a full-throttle ride to the limits of the human body. Photo: Darcy Grant On a floating white diamond stage, seven superhuman acrobats bend, fly,...
View ArticleNew Circa acrobatic show S set to impress Canberra audiences
See Canberra Winter 2014 Raved as sinuous, seductive, sophisticated, stunning, sensual and savage by audiences, presenters and critics around the world, Circa’s award-winning ensemble creation S is a...
View ArticleMelbourne Festival review: Debussy Quartet's patchy performance reserves best...
The Debussy Quartet performing at the Melbourne Festival. Photo: Jean-Claude_Bruet Reviewer rating: Rating: 3 out of 5 stars MUSIC QUARTETS AT SUNSET Debussy Quartet Collins Street Baptist Church...
View ArticleNow carnival is over, let festivities begin
THERE was a curious air -- a political disconnect -- on Saturday night in Brisbane's cultural heartland. As the votes in the election were tallied, and as it became clear Brisbane boy Kevin Rudd would...
View ArticleTheatre and Dance 2014: Opus (Barbican Centre)
(Source: Barbican Centre) Circa/Debussy String Quartet Opus Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 February 2014 Press night: Tuesday 18 February 2014, 7.45pm...
View ArticleCirca and Debussy String Quartet; Paul Bunyan – review
Barbican theatre; Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London ...
View ArticleRave US reviews for York musician (University of York)
(Source: University of York) Posted on 24 November 2014 Robert Hollingworth, Anniversary Reader in the University of York's Music Department, directed 'breathtaking' performances of How Like an Angel...
View ArticleFiona Maddocks: classical music’s most significant firsts of 2014
The Observer’s classical music critic looks back on a year of notable firsts from Judith Weir, Tara Erraught, Nicola Beneditti and more ...
View ArticleSummerFest 2013 season announced
">La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest Here are its key components: Thematic inspiration Building a program that is coherent, engaging and entertaining is no small task, and one effective way to do...
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