De Novo, Warhorse and One Servant, Two Guvnors

Duckie Art & Event Reviews, Blog, Puppetry, Video Must Sees

What a lucky duck I’ve been lately, taken out to a string of overwhelmingly fantastic shows! First up was Sydney Dance Company’s De Novo, the most unexpected piece of contemporary dance I’ve ever seen. It was extraordinary, with incredible choreography and impossible bodies. But also what was so surprising, an alien vs predator themed dance, and a postmodern dialectic coupled …

Sydney Festival Reviews

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Inside Last night I saw Frank Woodley’s new show Inside at the Spiegeltent, and is a work of genius! It was such a marvelous mixture of humour, absurdity and character. We cackled the whole way through, but there’s also a weird existential underlying twist, as the Russian prisoners contemplate the outside world without knowledge of it or a chance of …

City Lights: Sydney Meets Japan

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Last night I attended the launch of an exciting project called City Lights. Using technology and creativity, Sydney and Yokohama, Japan will be connected innovatively. An ensemble of young people underwent a creative development with multimedia artist David Kirkpatrick and Japanese dancer/designer Anna Kuroda. The results have led to an installation which appears in the Cleland Bond building, the Rocks, …

Mystery Bus 2012 Wrap Up

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Last week we wrapped up another successful season of Mystery Bus for the Sydney Fringe Festival. Once again sell-out crowds were wowed by a showcase of some of Sydney’s best underground artists and venues across eight themed nights. The bus arrived to greet unsuspecting punters outside the Enmore Theatre and took them to different secret locations each night for a …

Blue Man Hogmanay, Edinburgh 2010

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New Year’s Day, 2010. I was in the bitter cold of Edinburgh, Scotland, wearing everything I owned to combat the -6 degree cold. While my friends nursed their Hogmanay hangovers, I emerged that evening as the sun was shyly withdrawing behind the horizon, and made my way along the Royal Mile, past frozen puddles and debris abandoned after the festivities …

Boot & Bat Eyes

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My clever housemate, friend and local producer Eleanor Winkler has had her work accepted into Your Film Festival. This international Youtube festival has only two Sydney entries in the final cut – both by Miss Winkler. She is a former Tropfest winner,prolific advocate for accessible media and premiering a new film next week! Watch, vote and support Aussie film-making. You …