Finally! Someone creates a dance performed on a large scale mattress. As chaotic as that may seem, the Beijing Dance Theatre has truly mastered the concept.
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I Might As Well Do My Dad Here: Martin Amis Speaks in Perth
Seeing Martin Amis speak, you get the sense of a tailored repetition, that behind the work of a hedge-trimming public relations team a sizeable amount of human quality wriggles.
PIAF - Wire - Chevron Gardens 24/02/14
If Wire had advertised a Pink Flag tribute/memorial tour they'd be selling this joint out and headlining arts festivals like this. Their live shows are maybe the worse for it, lacking the kind of fan interaction that setting craves
Perth Arena feat. Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Pharrel Williams, The Rolling Stones, the Arctic Monkeys and POND
Lots of stuff happening at our new venue, neatly summarized here, for your health.
PIAF - Spinning Top Presents (POND, AAA Aardvark Getdown Services, Felicity Groom and The Silents) - 23/02/14
Well, if you don’t know what/who/why Spinning Top is then I feel you have been failed by yourself. This little (but probably now larger) Fremantle based label has been quietly building a roster enviable by larger lamer labels.
Fringe World - Digging Deep - The Pleasure Garden, Until Sunday
Staring up-and-coming stage actor Abigail Martin as Lucy, the play is not at all for the faint hearted but highlights an incredibly important and too often taboo issue. The characters face self-doubt, guilt, anger, blame, isolation, powerlessness and the enormous courage needed to confront the past in an incredibly honest and sensitive way.
PIAF - DJ Food, DJ Cheeba & DJ Moneyshot Caught in the Middle of a 3-Way Mix a tribute to Paul's Boutique 18/02/14
It may be a recreation or remix of the album in a live setting by people not remotely involved in producing it, but also it's neither of those things and they play Beatles tracks like its nothing and Itunes didn't have a wild battle with them just to be able to legitimately sell their stuff. This shit is complex.
PIAF - A Midsummer Night's Dream (as you like it) - FINALE TONIGHT
As a member of the alienated audience, the Russian banter was so weird and wonderful it made the odd manipulations of the giant puppets seem almost normal. Conceptually, the performance provided great comedic relief.
St. Jerome's Laneway Festival - Fremantle 8/2/14
This year’s St. Jerome’s laneway Festival on its new turf in Fremantle proved to be wildly successful, spectacular in its vibes, layout and packed out audience including many younger ones who don’t abide by the man and jumped fences to get in. If this is the future of festivals, I’m happy.
PIAF - Theatre at the Quarry: Radio and Juliet - Quarry Amphitheatre
The trick is- not to enter the quarry with traditional expectations of “ballet” with tutus and lavish set designs. It’s all about the synchronization and symbolism. I really don’t want to give too much away- but after seeing the show, I feel so proud, and confident in Western Australian Ballet.
PIAF - Bianco: Ozone Reserve until March 1
Bianco was a journey and insight into the circus world, its function and the rapports between performers.
Perth Festival: Julia Holter - Chevron Gardens - 10/02/14
Holter is the howling banshee at the centre of the caterwauling madness that forms the end of 'Betsy on the Roof', but she's also the loose calm in the centre of the storm in her dark rendition of Barbra Lewis' 'Hello Stranger'.
Gallery: St. Jerome's Laneway Festival, 2014
St. Jerome's Laneway Festival moved to a new home in Fremantle this year, if this is the future of festivals we should all be very happy!
Noodle Palace: Bruce Fummey's Afro-Scottish Stress
What produced the cognitive dissonance was that, inside the KEN DOM(n)E and only a few metres away from a joke that said “Old man noodle say man with wholein pocket feel cocky all day long”, Bruce Fummey's show is all about the trauma and ills of racial stereotyping.
Noodle Palace: Tomas Ford, Electric Caberet
I can only describe the entire experience from the point of arriving at the Noodle Palace as sexy. Sometimes I was comfortable and somewhat aroused, other times I was scared for my bubble being invaded.
Midlandia FRINGE: Last Chance To Catch World Class Comedy!
First up, we have the English ‘middle-class private educated white boy’ Chris Turner’s Pretty Fly show which is touted as a journey of life through hip hop and secondly Perth’s own new-New Yorker Josh Makinda, performing a very impromptu and crowd-tailored comedy, Lots of Ideas and Limits .
West Australian Opera: Otello
This is tragic opera delivered for a new generation of opera lovers. From set to chorus this is a powerful production that will leave you thoroughly impressed.
Gallery: Big Day Out 2014: Perth
The Big Day Out hit Perth for one last time in 2014. Here is it, in picture form!
Big Day Out 2014: Round Up
And that’s how it all ended, one stage Major Lazer, a huge EDM collective, another Pearl Jam, arguably one of the biggest rock bands of the last 20 years and the Deftones, a successful alt. metal band. Quite fitting really.
Fringe World: Mangoes For Opinions @ DeLuxe Tent
It's a weird and wacky tale told masterfully by Burke and it's so crazy and hilarious that it just works.