Tag: Aboriginal

The Glenturret Burns Night Supper Sydney Opera House

The Glenturret Burns Night Supper at the Sydney Opera House

If you’re Scottish or know anyone Scottish, you’re probably familiar with Burns Night. If not: it’s held annually on January 25th, where, for the past 150+ years, people gather to celebrate Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns. It’s a traditional night…

Pigalle Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival’s ‘Pigalle’ – a burlesque/cabaret tour-de-force

Every now and then, a show comes along that blows all your preconceptions out of the water. ‘Pigalle’ is one of those shows. A cabaret-circus-music-burlesque extravaganza, it’s the centrepiece of Sydney Festival‘s Festival Gardens programming in Hyde Park. We’re huge fans…

Djuki Mala

Contemporary and Aboriginal dance phenomenon: Djuki Mala

Dance sensation Djuki Mala are back at the Sydney Opera House to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Following packed out shows, multiple awards, and international tours I went along with my plus one to see if they lived up to the hype. Direct…

Ochres. A new, unmissable Bangarra production.

New choreographies, new dancers, new costumes, new lights. Same show, same music: still so intense to overwhelm and drag the audience through all the 5 stages of the performance. The production didn’t loose any of its intensity and perfectly conjugated…

New Kid in Town: National Theatre of Parramatta

It is not every day that a new Australian theatre company opens its doors. Sadly quite the opposite has been happening over the last decade, with many theatre companies closing down because of lack of funding. However, after many years…