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[Published in Beat, Issue #1317, April 25 2012] The realm of childhood is a liminal zone. Unable to fend for ourselves, we are beholden to adults to teach us about the world. Our character, our worldview and our values are already beginning to take shape, many aspects of which will stay with us through our […]
October 11, 2011
[Published on Beat.com.au, October 11 2011] Grit Theatre’s Pond could be a different production to the one I’ve read several lukewarm reviews of. And if it wasn’t for critics’ descriptions of the show’s notable set design, an apartment cum post-industrial wasteland, I’d be convinced that I’d wandered into the wrong theatre. We open in darkness […]
October 5, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1289, October 5 2011] Phillip Adams is something of a mad scientist in the world of choreography. Since starting his company Balletlab in 1999, Adams has been creating spectacular Frankensteins across a now prolific career – works that fuse the traditional and the avant-garde, dance and visual art, all of which […]
October 5, 2011
[Published in Beat Magazine, Issue 1289, October 5 2011] The language of words and the language of dance may appear as opposing lexicons. The first is cerebral while the second is corporeal, manifesting the Cartesian dualism between mind and body. But according to choreographer Byron Perry, their polarity, like most oppositions, is largely illusory. They […]
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 […]
April 25, 2012
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