8 Oct 2017
Drapetomania: Music To Dance To – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
The opening act ‘little-scale’ got started around 8.30pm with large Eddystone box filled with what were apparently obsolete video game consoles and a weird…
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8 Oct 2017
Rising: A Masterclass In Four Parts – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
Rising is a seventy minute dance program performed by one man, UK born Indian Aakash Odedra. It might seem a big ask for a single dancer to keep an audience…
8 Oct 2017
Sever: Live Music And Film Fusing Classic Chinese Folklore With Modern Day Life – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
This was a show in two parts. The first half of the show was as per advertised in the OzAsia festival program – live musical accompaniment to a traditional…
7 Oct 2017
Music In Anticlockwise: Illustrations Of Time, Space And Sound – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
First up in tonight’s program, Tracey Chen seemed more like Music In Introspection, while there certainly was a good audience connection, at times it seemed we…
6 Oct 2017
In Between Two: An Uplifting Exploration Of Two Asian-Australian Family Histories – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
Chinese-Australian rapper Joelistics and Filipino-Australian musician James Mangohig’s collective Australian heritage stretches back to 1916 when Joelistics’…
4 Oct 2017
The Dark Inn ~ Niwan Gekidan Penino: Much To Say About Existence And The Meaning Of Life – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
The lights go down at Her Majesty’s and we are taken to an unnamed inn with no owner in the far north west of Japan to spend a strange night with a group of…
1 Oct 2017
Cocoon: An Absolute Musical Delight As Part Of The Meeting Points Series – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
Cocoon is one of three programs collectively known as Meeting Points featuring the Australian Art Orchestra in collaboration with composers from China, Japan…
1 Oct 2017
The Bombay Royale: A Huge Night Of Rhythm’n’Bhangra – OzAsia Festival 2017 Review
Another big night of music at Nexus Arts with two outstanding bands dishing up a frenzy of delicious funk music as part of OzAsia Festival 2017.
30 Sept 2017
Shonen Knife: Rocking At The Sushi Bar!! – OzAsia Festival Review
At tonight’s full house, Nexus Arts prove that it is not necessary to present similar acts on the same bill to have a successful gig. The two bands on offer…
29 Sept 2017
I AM, I AM, I AM: SEVENTEEN BRUSHES WITH DEATH ~ Death Just Won’t Give Up! – Book Review
Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s grasp seventeen times…
29 Sept 2017
WAKEFIELD: What’s Your Life Like When You’re Not There? – DVD Review
Bryan Cranston’s many starring roles since the end of TV’s Breaking Bad have included the serious ( Get A Job , Trumbo ) and not so serious ( Why Him? , Power…
28 Sept 2017
Specific Places Need Specific Dances: Waiting In Different Spaces – OzAsia Festival Review
This dance piece explores the meetings of different cultures, and the attempt to explain to each other. In this case it is Germany meets Papua, but it could…