Robin Knightly is the nom de plume of a writer whose mother was born in eastern Ukraine, and father in western Ukraine. Both parents survived the Ukrainian genocide orchestrated by the regime in Moscow. The 1932-1933 famine was executed by confiscating the wheat harvests, a seizure that took the lives of six million Ukrainian children, women and men. The writer’s grandfather was humiliated in one of the 1930’s show trials, dragged off and murdered. Both parents escaped to Australia as refugees on forged papers. The writer was born here.
During the Arab spring, Sarah Black traveled through the Middle East. She recollects how people treated her, compared to how they treated their own locals or neighbouring peoples, starkly contrasted when she arrived in Israel. As a foreigner, but a …
To continue to celebrate its 60th anniversary, The Australian Ballet has commissioned a double-bill of two new dance productions. Each of these sets-off the other to showcase the vast breadth of creative energy and beauty that this company …
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Four emerging choreographers have freshly forged four diverse works for the Sydney Dance Company’s NEW BREED showcase of contemporary dance.
Recently back from a choreographic tour of duty throughout Europe, Sophia Ndaba meticulously shreds the veil that straitjackets …
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Artistic director, David Hallberg, plunges The Australian Ballet into tomorrow’s frontier.
On the shoulders of generations of progressive refinement and innovative creativity in ballet, Hallberg places The Australian Ballet securely at the forefront of world dance.
Hallberg …
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In the canon of art, what tops the bill? In theatre, is it King Lear? In painting, is it Rembrandt’s self-portrait as a vulnerable old man? In sculpture, is it Michelangelo’s David? In architecture, is it …
Experiencing the Sydney Dance Company’s triple bill RESOUND whets your appetite like the scent of spring lures a starling to feast on nectar.
A three-course carte du jour. First, maestro artistic director Raphael Bonachela’s masterwork Ocho tantalises your tastebuds. Eight …
It is love at first sight.
I should not be shocked. But then, she is 88! Yes, born in 1933. A lifelong royalist. Always votes habitual conservative. Never eats chicken leg with her fingers. Only just stopped wearing evening …
The audience forms a circle. In the middle, to one side, a DJ. Not just a slick turntablist, but the wizard. DJ Total Eclipse is his name; awesome electronics his game. Hailing from the epicentre of breakdance hip hop, …
First, movies were silent. One of the hottest silent movie stars was Greta Garbo. Eventually, people worked out how to make talkies – movies in which the actors spoke and you could hear their voices. So, in 1930 the most …
A leading dance company fosters creative flair; innovatively breaks new ground; spurs athletic verve; consolidates a wealth of talent and skill.
The Sydney Dance Company (SDC) excels in all these spheres. But a particular gift sets it apart.
At SDC, …