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Details: 14 August 2008

No Success Like Failure | The Fondue Set

The Fondue Set’s new show No Success Like Failure explores the slippery notions of expectation, disappointment and failure through a fractured combination of dance, physical theatre, text and song.

Details: 12 August 2008

Blood red lighting sets an alchemical mood. A sense of foreboding prevails. Axe wielding dancers, setting to an absurd task.

Details: 11 August 2008

This is what dance should do, but, unfortunately, rarely does. I haven’t felt this excited seeing a contemporary work for a very long time.

Details: 11 August 2008

The Candlestickmaker intertwines astrophysics, the aspirations of an Indian family and lore into a captivating performance.

Details: 11 August 2008

Steven Isserlis and the Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Chamber Orchestra, during the course of my adult years, seems to have come from nowhere and gone to the stratosphere

Details: 10 August 2008

Shakespeare's R & J | Riverside & Phil Bathols

At last, some piercing light has broken through yonder window: this is an entirely new prism through which one can view the intense, almost blinding beauty of Million Dollar Bill

Details: 10 August 2008

The AS Trio was, and is, spellbinding. They'll chill you out and softly sand down the rough edges in a way even a double Scotch cannot. Theirs is music for the mind, body and soul.

Details: 10 August 2008

The Burlesque Hour takes the cabaret form back to it’s origins, presenting pointed, political, intelligent, funny, grotesque and deeply sexy explorations of femininity, stereotype and gender.

No Success Like Failure | The Fondue Set

Axeman Lullaby | BalletLab

360 | Sydney Dance Company

The Candlestickmaker | Indian Ink

Steven Isserlis & The Australian Chamber Orchestra

Shakespeare's R & J | Riverside & Phil Bathols

The Alister Spence Trio

The Burlesque Hour... She's Back!