Want to see cutting edge dance from specialist apprentices? Get down to the state’s specialist arts training academy of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the Victorian College Of The Arts. Located beside NGV International and Arts Centre…
What better place to escape the cold of Melbourne winter than to a warm hearth with fiery music? Held annually on the June long weekend, the National Celtic Festival captivates the souls of many with Irish and Scottish traditions. Now…
Sharmini Kumar’s latest original play, The Sisters; or, Galileo’s Penance, is an enchanting hour spent visiting the 16th century lives of the two illegitimate daughters of Italian scientist, Galileo Galilei, in Italy. A pious Roman Catholic, he fathered three children…
No plans for the long weekend? Grab your kilt and get ready to dance the cold away at the National Celtic Festival 2019. Held over the June long weekend (7th-10th) in Victoria’s picturesque seaside town of Portarlington, lovers of culturally…
Andi Snelling has earned her reputation as one of Melbourne’s deeply enticing physical and character performers, and her return to the stage with ‘Happy-Go-Wrong’ is a long awaited devoted performance that addresses ailment and struggle that is both personable and…
It’s a show which takes you to the digital edge. To the ISIS recruiting grounds and lost, hyperlinked highways of cyberspace – where the marginalized, mostly males, convene. UK Muslim and playwright Javaad Alipoor’s postmodern show, The Believers Are But…
A leader in her field of contemporary dance research, design, and practice, the latest iteration of Sue Healey’s distilled choreography mesmerised and intrigued. Alongside a cast of 23 final year Bachelor of Fine Arts(Dance) students, in partnership with a team…
Opera Australia’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto offers an experience of gorgeous music and magnificent singing, acting, and visual design. From the powerful overture, which foreshadows the tone of the narrative, to the dramatic final curtain, this production enthrals the audience….
The body as artistic form and physical marvel capable of the transcendent stood centrestage in Sydney Dance Company’s 50th Anniversary Triple Bill, Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane. The company’s standard elite athleticism, vigor, dynamism, and fervent technical prowess, as well as spotlight on the…
This land was never given up, this land was never bought and sold. The planting of the Union Jack never changed nothing at all… As we approach the national ‘celebration’ of 250 years of colonial rule, it was nice to…