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[Published in The Big Issue, Issue #404, April 6 2012] 4/5 STARS When Tanja Liedtke was killed in 2007, she had the world at her feet. The 29-year-old choreographer had just finished a global tour of her latest show construct, a highly autobiographical work about the pains we endure to build our ideal life. She […]
August 10, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1281, August 10 2011] I Left My Shoes on Warm Concrete and Stood in the Rain is a highly evocative phrase. For me, it speaks of the summers of my coastal adolescence. It is those midnight downpours that catch you unaware on the trek home from the foreshore. It is welcome […]
July 20, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1278, July 20 2011] When conjuring an image of the Romantic hero, Paul Capsis is not the first person who springs to mind. Best known for his career in cabaret, Capsis’ larger-than-life stage persona is about as far removed from these nature-loving aesthetes – epitomised by your Byrons, your Wordsworths or […]
July 13, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1277, July 13 2011] There’s a scraping at your bedroom window as you try, in vain, to fall asleep. Something moves in the shadows, just beyond your vision’s reach. Is that sound the echo of footsteps? Or is it just the thunder of your pounding heart? No matter whether these threats […]
July 13, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1277, July 13 2011] Small Odysseys, the title of the upcoming production by Melbourne performance collective Rawcus, is something of an oxymoron. Since the Homeric epic, an odyssey has always suggested a voyage of mythic proportions – they are, by definition, never a small undertaking. Yet this playful paradox is very […]
March 29, 2011
[Published on Beat.com.au, March 29 2011] Three couples lay sprawled across the ground, their silhouettes barely visible against the dark and empty room. A singular light emanates from a set of turntables by the wall. Blaring mechanical sounds serrate the uncannily still air. As flashes begin to pulse from a series of off-kilter neons, the […]
April 6, 2012
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