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 [...]
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Opera Queensland says “Kiss me quick” with Kiss Me, Kate!
If you’ve never been to the opera, but think you might like it, today’s news from Opera Queensland (OperaQ) could be just the ticket. In line with their [...]
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 [...]
The Value of Shadows: Judith Wright’s Desire
“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.” Jean Rhys, Quartet Back in [...]
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 [...]
SHIFT by WRUFFnTUMBLE
So, I have this friend called Oscar. Or Panda. Or Pandasaurus Rex. Really it depends on who you’re talking to. Whatever you call him, he’s a total firecracker [...]
Toying Around With the Gandini Jugglers
“Damn everything but the circus!” said E.E. Cummings one day, clearly fed up with his literary life. “The average ‘painter’ ‘sculptor’ [...]
Ludovic Florent’s “Poussières d’étoiles”
The most creative thing I’ve ever made involving flour is a banana cake, and even then the truly creative part was actually in the way I used chocolate icing to hide [...]
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