Review: Terrain (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
The premiere of Frances Rings' dance work was a seminal moment. Ten years on, it has lost none of its freshness and echoes a groundswell of newfound interest.
DAMU-trained scenographer Jansson J. Antmann designed the Czech premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me on a Sunday. A presenter on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney and Editor of LaVie in Europe, he was Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s publicist, a regular on ABC Overnights and a regular contributor of features and reviews at Limelight.
The premiere of Frances Rings' dance work was a seminal moment. Ten years on, it has lost none of its freshness and echoes a groundswell of newfound interest.
This work may be small in scale, but it is a masterpiece that does justice to the father of modern science.
This festival is an extraordinary achievement in improving accessibility to opera and the arts more broadly.
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