Melbourne
Dance review: Shower Thots, Melbourne City Baths, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Dance at the pool offers amphibious playfulness and chlorinated whimsy.
Butoh – the art of darkness, movement and now … food
A dance form originating from the desire to interrogate the darker side of humanity, butoh continues to evolve ... now…
Hermannsburg School seen in a new light
From the so-called 'chocolate box' painting, which led to an appreciation of Aboriginal art, to a dynamic contemporary art style…
Performance reviews: If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love you, This is Living, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two Melbourne Fringe shows – one of which explored mischief-makers in Ireland and the other the loss of a wife…
Performance reviews: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America, and Le Freak, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful, spine-tingling sequel and good hour of circus entertainment.
Theatre reviews: Love Letters and A friendship of life and death, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Ambitious shows aiming to bridge cultural understandings showed good intentions, but needed more development.
Performance reviews: Access, Dougie Baldwin and Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An hour of anarchic clowning, emotional experimentation and diasporic mourning at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
Music review: Angel Strings and K Mak, Scienceworks Planetarium, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful marriage of cosmic imagery and ethereal music.
Performance reviews: Exhumed: The ‘Best’ of Bradley Storer, Leather Lungs: Happy Ending, Baba, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Three impressive shows at Melbourne Fringe Festival: two cabarets that touched on big and personal themes and a moving tribute…
Performance review: All the Fraudulent Horse Girls, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A queer coming-of-age production that involved a fever dream of horses and the novelist work of Cormac McCarthy.