Sydney Festival 2016 Archive

A program of Beethoven symphonies too often gives modern orchestras an excuse to really blast and shake the concert hall rafters. After all, Beethoven’s symphonies are full of pile-driving riffs and slammin’ power-chords. It’s all very exciting – as any heavy metal is …

Sydney Festival’s poster girl is Meow Meow whose orange mermaid fish lips adorn bus stops across the city. But while the cabaret performer is dominating publicity, the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent in which she performs is also hosting lower profile yet equally dynamic …

Vortex Temporum, at Carriageworks until January 18 as part of the Sydney Festival, is brilliant in the same way as an ingenuous mathematical formula. Everything about the work, which sets out to explore sound and time, is circular – from the concentric …

Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky is a thought-provoking work that challenges the human race to change its attitude to the Earth before it’s too late. This major new work from Broome’s internationally acclaimed dance-theatre company Marrugeku is an impassioned plea to regard the land as the …

The new Casus Circus act, Knee Deep, now performing as part of the Sydney Festival in the Famous Spiegeltent, is not your usual circus affair. On the black raised platform the Brisbane foursome – three men, one woman – share a story …

Grammy-nominated three-piece, The Tiger Lillies, is one of the more interesting acts at this year’s Sydney Festival performing to full houses in the Famous Spiegeltent. The show falls somewhere between a circus act and a gypsy troupe that astounds with the range …

What Will Have Been, an intimate and stripped back circus show by Brisbane-based company Circa, has found a perfect—albeit temporary—home at The Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent. The audience, seated in a pit at eye-level to the stage, can feel the floor shake when …

There’s a very good reason Meow Meow’s shows sell out so quickly: she’s indisputably fabulous. Her latest show, Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid, which premiered at this year’s Sydney Festival, delights audiences with another impeccable virtuoso performance that doesn’t miss a beat. Part …