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So you want my arts job: Art Teacher, Costume and Jewellery Designer

Anna Kolusniewski runs a successful business teaching art classes for children and adults, while also creating stunning wearable pieces on…

Infinitely Closer. Image is three dancers in tight flesh coloured t-shirtsa and grey pants, two close to the camera, one at the back of the stage, spotlit and bent over, with large screens covered in projections of other dancers. Audience members can be seen seated to the far right and far left.
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Dance review: Infinitely Closer, Festival Theatre

A boundary-pushing experiment with a powerful impact.

Red Stitch. Image is an illustration of a red shed atop a green hill and a pile of playscripts with sun beams emanating from behind it and a red sky.
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Red Stitch launches 24-hour theatre lock-in to raise funds for 2024

Red Stitch Actors' Theatre is inviting the community into the rehearsal space in December, for a marathon live play-reading as…

I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron. Image is a man sitting at a grand piano playing and singing, while on a screen behind him are translations of Chinese poetry into English.
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Performance review: 我咽下一枚铁做的月亮 I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron, Dunstan Playhouse

Poetry revealing the despair of a factory worker was turned into songs that tugged at the heartstrings.

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Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide

Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.

Shower Thots’. Figure in a green/blue dressing gown crouches over in a huddle on the tiles beside a pool, while holding a toothbrush between their toes.
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Dance review: Shower Thots, Melbourne City Baths, Melbourne Fringe Festival

Dance at the pool offers amphibious playfulness and chlorinated whimsy.

butoh. Image is an stark industrial or ruined building with two white painted figures in the centre. Both have wires streaming from their mouths and one is being piggy-backed by the other.
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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…

Salvant. Image is of a spotlight woman wearing a black cloak with arms outstretched to the side to fill half the spotlit space, looking at the camera and with multicoloured hair.
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Music review: Cécile McLorin Salvant, QPAC

Award-winning jazz performer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, wows the audience.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Image is of ballet dancers against a black backdrop, fairies all reaching up with one arm and the other reaching down, behind two principals - a male in black and a female in traditional white tutu - in the same pose.
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Ballet review: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Canberra Theatre Centre

A charming and exquisite production, Queensland Ballet’s interpretation of the Shakespeare classic is likely to bring a little bit of…

Cocaine. Two young men, one is learning on the other. They are spotlit.
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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…

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