Briefs: Close Encounters
It feels like forever since I’ve viewed the world through rose-coloured glasses. Idiot leaders, global financial crises, wars, environmental disasters, more idiot [...]
Dance
Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White
Um…did I just attend the ballet, or an extended routine at Love & Rockets (if you’re not from Brisbane, google it)? Yes, the Gaultier-designed costumes were a [...]
Desirelines at the Judy
Desire Lines, both physical and metaphorical, are single moments of defiance that quickly become the norm as others follow suit. They are the beaten dirt tracks [...]
At QPAC, Anything Goes
There are times when I really do have to pinch myself at how lucky I am to do the things I do as a result of this blog. Even though it’s work, it does seem a [...]
Le Noir: the dark side of cirque
I don’t know about you, but when I think of the circus I don’t immediately think of g-strings, suspender belts and feathers. Call me old fashioned, but that [...]
She Put the Broad in Broadway
Some celebrity passings are sadder than others, even when it’s a performer in their 90th year of being fabulous as Elaine Stritch was. Dying at 89 is no tragedy; it is, [...]
NAIDOC Week 2014
It’s NAIDOC Week! Held annually from the first Sunday in July, NAIDOC Week is a celebration of all things awesome about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, [...]
The Mania of St John’s Dance
Well now here’s a funny “On this day” fact… On this day in 1374 one of this largest outbreaks of St John’s Dance occurred in Aachen, Germany. [...]
Get Lucky with Soul Train
It’s probably the most toe tapping song of all time, but it is even more impossible to resist the groove of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky when set to some 1970s Soul [...]
Swimming With Stu
Sometimes the hardest part about this blog is finding the words that do justice to the beautiful work I see. It’s a bit like that quote someone once said [...]
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