Poetry and piano explore the elements
SARAH BYRNE reviews father-and-daughter Arnan and Moran Wiesel combining piano and poetry in Elemental, a concert exploring the forces of the natural world.
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Celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday, Ensemble Offspring performed four of their Reich favourites in this concert dedicated to his music, reviews ROB KENNEDY.
LEN POWER reviews Echoes of Humanity, a charity concert by the National Capital Orchestra with piano soloist Lucas Krupinski.
"Striking similarities not just to rock formations, but to Aboriginal art exude from each work. Some take on the form of a bark canvas, with colours to match." ROB KENNEDY reviews an exhibition by Christiane Keller.
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Vault suits Luminescence’s multi-media show
"Luminescence continues to bring a singular virtuosity to their performances, and are champions of genuinely interesting and sometimes challenging new work," writes reviewer SARAH BYRNE.
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Daisy survives the plots to pull it off
"Daisy Pulls It Off examines the life of a scholarship girl, bright and cheerful Daisy Meredith, who arrives at a posh girls’ school where she encounters snobbery and a degree of savagery," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
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Kean’s geometry glimmers across five decades
Five decades of Roslyn Kean's printmaking reveal extraordinary technical mastery, geometric complexity and a beguiling Japanese influence, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews acclaimed ceramicist Lynda Draper grafting glass and bronze on to her hand-built ceramics to create intriguing new forms at Canberra Glassworks.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews ceramicists Jo Victoria and Sara Ormonde drawing inspiration from the meeting of water and shoreline to evoke the NSW south coast.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Edward Neeman and the CSO Wind Quartet showcasing the individual talents within Canberra's larger orchestra in a lilting spring concert.
Polifemy's finely balanced voices and BlockSounds' beguiling birdcalls filled Wesley in Robyn Mellor's inspired celebration of spring, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
MICHELLE POTTER reviews Canberra's dance community devoting an evening at The Street Theatre to exploring Viennese-born Gertrud Bodenwieser's technique and legacy as her influence lives on in Australian dance.
The Cat Empire's infectious rhythms met the lush sounds of Canberra Symphony Orchestra in a musical marriage that proved an overwhelming success, reviews IAN McLEAN.
Led by violinist John Ma, Musica Da Camera delivered a sparkling program of Baroque favourites that put spring firmly in the air, reviews LEN POWER.
The Beatles, The Seekers, miniskirts and political satire collide in a nostalgic trip back to 1966, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
LEN POWER reviews theatre company Bloomshed's take on George Orwell's Animal Farm, setting the story in rural Australia and giving the animals a voice that sounds "uncomfortably like the language of Australian labour politics".
ROB KENNEDY reviews English artist David Hockney's works in the latest exhibition at National Gallery of Australia that shows how his use of portraiture functions as an aesthetic anchor in his art.
COLIN STEELE reviews six books, whose authors featured recently in the Australian National University Meet the Author series, that cover a wide range of important issues in Australian and global politics.
Two Chinese migrants return to their homeland with cameras in hand, capturing the strange territory between belonging and displacement, reviews CON BOEKEL.
