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On thin ice: making a new art form

What happens when the art form you love is cringe-worthy? You remake it in a contemporary manner.

18 Oct 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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When Australians think of ice skating, what inevitably springs to mind are the sequinned costumes of ice-dancers Torvill and Dean, the violence of ice hockey, or the kiddie commercialism of Disney on Ice. One rarely thinks of art – a situation which Québécois company Le Patin Libre (‘The Free Skate’) are intent on changing.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts