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Choreographer Miranda Wheen's company Dance Makers Collective joins with local dance artists from Project Dust, Apsaras Arts Canberra and Quantum Leap Australia to present "the best dance party you've ever been to", writes HELEN MUSA.
Everything from samurai epics and horror films to animation, social dramas and international award winners will hit the screen at the National Film and Sound Archive this weekend in the Japanese Film Festival, celebrating 30 years.
Diesel takes requests, the Japanese Film Festival turns 30 and the Sydney Symphony makes a long-awaited Canberra return in arts editor HELEN MUSA’s latest “Artsweek” column.
Beyond David Hockney's famous pools and colourful paintings lies a master of intimate portraiture. Art historian ALEX BURCHMORE explores the people and relationships captured in his prints.
A friendly garden monster named Bloombo is about to spring from the imagination of a seven-year-old Canberra designer into molten glass at Canberra Glassworks.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews bass-baritone Jeremy Kleeman and pianist-composer Jack Symonds tackling Michelangelo's tortured poetry in a demanding recital of rare intensity and beauty.
Cellist David Pereira, violinist Chris Latham, harpist Alice Giles and pianist Arnan Wiesel proved a special combination in a program of chamber music delights, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
Soprano Louise Keast's $43,000 scholarship win is something to sing about. It leads HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
"This concert was a breath of fresh air heralding in this spring season. The program included floral and nature-inspired baroque works by composers from Germany, Italy, and France," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? That’s the question at the centre of a new Swedish-crime thriller Blood Sacrifice, which has become an immediate hit, writes streaming reviewer NICK OVERALL.
"When one particularly perplexing Aussie made quite the spectacle of herself on the Olympic stage, Netflix was not going to miss a beat, even though she certainly did," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"The set may be a grand staircase and an even grander bookcase but the story of the Bennet sisters is being told by the female lower classes who scrub the floors and clean the loos," says reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Simon Tedeschi astounded his audience with a masterclass in the piano... which is what you get when you ask your audience on arrival to nominate what they’d like to hear, says reviewer DAVID WHITBREAD.
It's 2031 and humans no longer remain on earth. Amid the debris, tiny Lego people are creating a new society, building new homes inside the waste left behind. That's the premise of a record-breaking, new exhibition, reports HELEN MUSA.
From Elsa's show-stopping transformation to a scene-stealing sauna, Free-Rain Theatre Company delivers Frozen on an impressive scale, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
Are cake and dancing mutually exclusive? Not if you're Canberra dance artist, Pilates practitioner and co-director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, Vivienne Rogis, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Late country legend Dolly Parton has given a posthumous video message as she accepted a lifetime achievement gong.
ANNA CREER reviews two new novels of historical fiction, one set in present and medieval times, the other in World War I.
Bridie O'Brien, a Canberra landscape painter who only recently moved to the national capital, has been chosen as the campaign artist for the 2026 Affordable Art Fair Sydney, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
