The program to Sydney Festival 2023 has been announced.
This year the Festival will take place between January 5 and January 29, 2023.
Sydney Festival 2023 will feature the largest line-up of international artists since 2019.
The Festival will see 18 world premieres, 14 Australian exclusives and over 100 unique events – 26 of which will be free.
In all, there will be 748 performances traversing some 54 venues.
Here are just a few of my picks from a brief look at the program:
Frida Kahlo: Life of an Icon
In a blockbuster coup for Sydney, appearing for the first time in Australia, a unique biographical exhibition will saturate the walls of the Cutaway with the work, spirit and story of one of the 20th century’s foremost artists: Frida Kahlo. Co-created by the Frida Kahlo Corporation and the renowned Spanish digital arts company Layers of Reality, this event is multi-sensory experience that encompasses captivating holography, 360º projections, traditional Mexican music performed live and a virtual reality system that will literally transport visitors inside Kahlo’s most famous works.
Kairos
A thrilling deep-dive into the human experience of here and now is a new work produced and commissioned by FORM dance projects, seeing three remarkable Australian talents reunite – composer Elena Kats-Chernin (AO), choreographer Meryl Tankard (AO) and visual artist Régis Lansac (OAM). A Sydney Festival world premiere production, Kairos will encompass a vast lexicon of human experience and human movement: the dark and challenging; the ugly and beautiful; the humorous and joyful.
The Weary Traveller
The bygone CBD beacon that is the Harry Seidler-designed Commercial Travellers’ Association building will be brought to life as The Weary Traveller, a late-night festival haunt and pop-up venue. Deep beneath the busy sidewalks of Martin Place this slice of 1970s Sydney – think red shag carpet on the walls and velvet padded booths – will play host to 16 nights of bespoke and intimate gigs from local and international artists, including Alice Skye, Astral People, Automatic, June Jones, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Lil Silva, Party Dozen, Tom Snowdon, Moktar, Two Birds with Bayand, Coloured Stone, HTRK and Potion.
The full program to the Festival is available on the Festival’s website –
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au
Featured image : Frida Kahlo ‘The Life Of Analcon’. Pic David Ruano
