BIG Live’s Ballet: Ballet International Gala IV

Cairns Performing Arts Centre 9-11 Florence St, Cairns City, QLD, Australia
Ballet International Gala (“BIG”) returns to Sydney for its annual sell-out showcase of world-class ballet. Featuring a lineup of internationally celebrated dancers from Royal Ballet, Australian Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre & more perform fan favourite, classical and contemporary repertoires. Witness some of the greatest dancers alive on stage with BIG Live’s…
All the words I cannot find

PDA Theatre Company: All the words I cannot find

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
April and Mina aren’t your average lesbian couple. Mina is transgender, April is infertile, they both do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and they’re interracial to boot. They both, however, want to start a family. Through interrogating their past relationships and heartbreaks, having check-ups with a doctor who exists outside of reality, and confronting death…
All the words I cannot find

PDA Theatre Company: All the words I cannot find

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
April and Mina aren’t your average lesbian couple. Mina is transgender, April is infertile, they both do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and they’re interracial to boot. They both, however, want to start a family. Through interrogating their past relationships and heartbreaks, having check-ups with a doctor who exists outside of reality, and confronting death…

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: Lost Birds

White Bay Power Station Robert St, Rozelle, NSW, Australia
This spring, the Chamber Singers head to Sydney’s historic White Bay Power Station for a powerful concert inspired by the natural world. Christopher Tin’s Lost Birds is an ‘extinction elegy’. Taking poems by women such as Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, who saw their pastoral society transformed into an industrial one, Tin has…

BIG Live’s Ballet: Ballet International Gala IV

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Ballet International Gala (“BIG”) returns to Sydney for its annual sell-out showcase of world-class ballet. Featuring a lineup of internationally celebrated dancers from Royal Ballet, Australian Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre & more perform fan favourite, classical and contemporary repertoires. Witness some of the greatest dancers alive on stage with BIG Live’s…
All the words I cannot find

PDA Theatre Company: All the words I cannot find

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
April and Mina aren’t your average lesbian couple. Mina is transgender, April is infertile, they both do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and they’re interracial to boot. They both, however, want to start a family. Through interrogating their past relationships and heartbreaks, having check-ups with a doctor who exists outside of reality, and confronting death…

Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh – Swell

The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Written in close collaboration with Australian violinist Phoebe Green, Swell, is the premiere work for solo viola d’amore and live electronics, expanding the ideas of reverberation both as a phenomenon and a metaphor. Part scripted, part improvised, the performers will move around the David Li Sound Gallery to enhance the…
Listening Acts Performance

Chamber Made: Listening Acts Installation

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music installations that explore listening and its role in memory, belonging and identity. Chamber Made invites…
Listening Acts Performance

Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…
Listening Acts Performance

Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…
Listening Acts Performance

Chamber Made: Listening Acts Installation

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music installations that explore listening and its role in memory, belonging and identity. Chamber Made invites…
Listening Acts Performance

Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…

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