Sydney Festival’s Tablatronics is an exciting collaboration between sound artist and media arts producer Tokyo Love-In and a range of extraordinary musicians. In this multi-cultural feast for the senses, Tablatronics uses music, visual artists, dancers and actors to present a world of sounds which reflects the rich South Asian heritage of the ensemble. With modern…

Award winning German rock-cabaret group Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) present their anarchic blend of rock ’n’ roll cabaret in Sydney Festival’s Kunst Rock. In this fantastic performance dysfunctional brother and sister duo Otto and Astrid Rot combine satire and music in a dramatically irreverent and ridiculously entertaining show. For more information, visit the…

In a thrilling evening of music and movement, Irish dance company Fabulous Beast performs Rian- mixing Celtic sounds  with elements of West African music in this dynamic celebration of Ireland’s roots and traditions. Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with composer Liam O Maonlai of Hothouse Flowers fame, drawing inspiration from O Maonlai’s solo…

Masterful comic Frank Woodley joins forces with award-winning physical performer Simon Yates for their tragi-comedy Inside, staged in The Famous Spiegeltent for Sydney Festival. Caged and subjected to absurd experiments. Woodley and Yates star as twins dream of escape. With incredible comic audacity, Inside is a world of hilarious and heart-breaking nonsense. Beautiful and bleak….

Beethoven’s music comes to life in Legs on the Wall’s newest creation Symphony. Directed by Patrick Nolan, the performance amplifies the jazz-like connection between physical performance, music and video. Leading Australian guitarist Stefan Gregory re-imagines Beethoven’s 7th Symphony as a solo live score. Performers Matt Cornell, Dean Cross, Amy Macpherson and Rhiannon Spratling are each…

In Sydney Festival’s Wreck, composer/artist Jon Rose transforms a decaying vehicle from the mining town of White Cliffs into a unique and quirky multimedia experience. Joined by innovative sound artists Claire Edwardes and Erkki Veltheim, Rose literally ‘plays’ the car, as both musical instrument and transmitter. The work amplifies the pounding metallic rhythms, rattles and…

Vivienne Westwood has been delighting and shocking the fashion world since 1971 and now Sydney Festival brings a collision of her high heels and billowing gowns with Handel’s Opera in a spectacular production of Semele Walk. In this bold take on Handel’s Semele, the heroine  is the prototype of 20th century punk. Her descent into…

Created by celebrated Kuwaiti writer/director Sulayam Al-Bassam, In the Eruptive Mode is inspired by the Arab Spring and explores the changing faces of today’s Middle East. A series of eight short scenes explore the themes of state violence and individual freedom in the modern Arab world. Accompanied by iconic underground musician Yasmine Hamdan’s live score,…

A world of love, lust and death is created in Murder, a new work by visual theatre magicians Erth.  The piece largely uses puppetry to convey its dark themes, and was inspired by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads. The performance has an edgy and poetic soundtrack and projections that plunges the audience…

Widely recognised as one of the world’s most outstanding figurative painters, Francis Bacon’s works are gutsy, controversial and unforgettable. Opening as part of Sydney Festival at the Art Gallery of NSW, Decades is the first major exhibition of his work to be seen in Australia. With over 50 paintings, the exhibition covers five decades of…