Sunday, February 8, 2015
One of the key works of the 2015 Perth International Arts Festival is Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances from 2006. There will be four performances only, on February 13, 14 and 15. PIAF artistic …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:44PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
Force Majeure, Carriageworks, January 22. IN her 10 years at Force Majeure, the company she founded and which she now leaves, Kate Champion’s material has included the ageing process, near…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 06:02AMSaturday, January 24, 2015
Sydney Festival Parramatta Program, January 23 PUNCTURE starts with “Hello” and ends with “I love you”. Has there been anything more life-affirming than this at the 2015 Sydney Festi…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:08AMFriday, January 23, 2015
Next to Normal, Doorstep Arts in association with Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, January 15. Sweet Charity, Sydney Opera House, January 16, 2015 IF there is a choice to be made between darkness a…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:13AMSunday, January 18, 2015
AS I foreshadowed on December 15 on my Diary page, Queensland Ballet has lost one of its principal artists, Natasha Kusch, to The Australian Ballet. Kusch was with QB for less than 18 months…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 10:40PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Dancing for the Gods, Chitrasena Dance Company for the Sydney Festival, January 8. IF there is a more immediately captivating dancer than Thaji Dias, I have yet to see her, or him. Dias is t…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 04:35PMSaturday, January 3, 2015
Volatile personalities, free speech, free tickets and the free language almost obligatory when publishing online – look at me, please!! – tangled at the weekend when a dispute between Op…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:57PMMonday, December 22, 2014
THIS year I saw more than 200 performances and, over the past week or so, have written about the people, plays, operas, dance works and musicals that spoke to me most strongly. Now I cull th…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 01:10AMThursday, December 18, 2014
I’VE avoided making neat lists of 10 of this and 10 of that in my survey of 2014, which is good when it comes to the individuals who made the deepest impression on me. I decided not to div…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 11:17PMMonday, December 15, 2014
DANCE is my great passion but this year there wasn’t a huge amount to bowl me over.Certainly I saw plenty of fine dancing – when does one not? – but in classical ballet there were few …
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:15AMFriday, December 12, 2014
MUSICAL theatre in Sydney got a boost in 2014 with the arrival of Hayes Theatre Co. When Darlinghurst Theatre Company won the residency at the lovely new Eternity Playhouse, a group of music…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 03:03PMThursday, December 11, 2014
TWO pieces of 2015 theatre programming in Melbourne would have interested me anyway, but having seen the shows in New York early this year makes them irresistible. Caryl Churchill’s Love a…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:03AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
OF the more than 200 shows I saw last year, about a third were plays. Dance, opera, musical theatre and cabaret make up the rest. Unfortunately symphonic and chamber music featured very ligh…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 02:49AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
EARLY next week I’ll be at the Vanguard in Sydney’s Newtown to see Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen’s cabaret show Under the Covers. That will bring my 2014 show total to 207, including a s…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 12:17AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Maina Gielgud, artistic director of The Australian Ballet from 1983 to 1997, is in Sydney preparing to restage her acclaimed 1986 production of Giselle, last performed by the company in 2008…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 09:45PMSaturday, December 6, 2014
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage. Lyric Theatre, Sydney, December 3, 2014 Beyond Desire, By Neil Rutherford and Kieran Drury. Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney, November 26. WHO can tell why…
SOURCE: deborahjones.me at 08:42PM 
