by Adrian Miller | Oct 8, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Reviews
[UK, INDIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 7 Oct. Rising is a seventy minute dance program performed by one man, UK born Indian Aakash Odedra. It might seem a big ask for a single dancer to keep an audience enthralled for this long, but Aakash Odedra...
by Clayton Werner | Oct 7, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Hong Kong/Australia ~ World Premiere] Nexus Arts, Fri 6 Oct. First up in tonight’s program, Tracey Chen seemed more like Music In Introspection, while there certainly was a good audience connection, at times it seemed we were all crammed into her tiny Hong Kong...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 6, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[AUSTRALIA] Space Theatre, Thu 5 Oct. Chinese-Australian rapper Joelistics and Filipino-Australian musician James Mangohig’s collective Australian heritage stretches back to 1916 when Joelistics’ Chinese grandmother was born in Sydney. They are eminently qualified to...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 4, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[Japan ~ Australian Premiere] Her Majesty’s Theatre, Tue 3 Oct. The lights go down at Her Majesty’s and we are taken to an unnamed inn with no owner in the far north west of Japan to spend a strange night with a group of lost souls. Travelling father and son...
by Adrian Miller | Oct 1, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Australia] Nexus Arts, Sat 30 Sep. Another big night of music at Nexus Arts with two outstanding bands dishing up a frenzy of delicious funk music as part of OzAsia Festival 2017. Adelaide’s musical monks The Shaolin Afronauts shuffle out onto the stage in their...
by Adrian Miller | Oct 1, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[CHINA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 30 Sep. Cocoon is one of three programs collectively known as Meeting Points featuring the Australian Art Orchestra in collaboration with composers from China, Japan, Korea and Arnhem Land. In this program the...