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- Penelope Broadbent
In Day After Terrible Day, facts are somewhat unimportant. This is a sensory experience which tempts its audience into becoming participants in the story.
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- Stephanie Glickman
You can’t get more universal in the ballet world than Swan Lake. The tale of good versus evil, love and betrayal, punctuated with the demure artistry of female swans en masse, has been danced and re-fashioned for decades, yet it never goes out of fashion.
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- Stephanie Johnson
Janet's Vagrant Love is promoted as a work 20 years in the making. Crombie shares her truth telling stories of childhood trauma and the struggles of raising your Blak men as a single mum doing the best she can for her boys.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Part interactive theatre, part performance art, with an extensive offerings of mini-desserts, Liminal Treats by Scratch Arts is a tricky show to pinpoint, even by Fringe standards.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Totally beautiful and distinctly meditative, Pendulum is a formal work, impressive for its specificity and clear spacial intentions with corresponding sounds.
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- Stephanie Johnson
In the likely event of forever, elevates the art of running late to unhinged heights. Literally this experimental show was twenty minutes late. And yes it’s about running late.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Hercules, Dionysus, Cupid and Apollo are in the house. They can tumble, balance, whipcrack and trapeze with the best of them, but they definitely don't take themselves too seriously.
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- Stephanie Glickman
ASMR is short for autonomous sensory meridian response – the “brain tingles” one gets when stimulated by sensory offerings like noises, sights or touch.
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