Reviews

Flying Bicycle Collective’s Dreams of a Lonely Planet is a gentle blend of contemporary dance, shadow puppetry and storytelling with live music composition to tell an abstract story of Boy’s journey to the lonely planet. 

The season included a relaxed performance which is the show I reviewed - and I am assuming that there may have been some accommodations to make this a less confronting experience for people with sensory needs. Wonderful to see relaxed performances - especially during a short run.

Six fearless Australian performers tumble, dance and contort their way through and around a unique steel sculpture standing on a vinyl mat spread over part of the new light rail on Church Street Parramatta. Their performance, titled The Construct, is part of the free, outside entertainment of this year’s Sydney Festival. They attract a crowd of about two hundred – some dedicated Sydney Festival followers, some simply passers-by, others sitting, sipping outside the cafes that line this precinct of Parramatta commonly known as ‘Eat Street’.  

In 2003, Avenue Q took Broadway by storm. Part-parody, part mirror to the world as it was, the show was so popular at the time that it beat out the smash-hit Wicked for the Tony Award for Best Musical - but can you guess which one is still running on Broadway? 

Grey Rhino apparently describes how we so wilfully ignore the warnings that big impact disasters are coming.

Impending apocalypse has long been a favourite theme of contemporary dance; nowadays our passivity in the face of it surely has a little more bite.

Sydney Dance Company stalwart Charmene Yap and multimedia-loving choreographer Cass Mortimer Eipper present seven dancers moving attractively, but ordinarily, across a large white square in one of the huge Carriageworks bays.