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Jonathan Holloway's first festival surpasses box office targets
The 2016 Melbourne Festival posts $2.9 million box office as audiences immerse themselves in participatory events.
The 2016 Melbourne Festival posts $2.9 million box office as audiences immerse themselves in participatory events.
This concert unfolded as a series of communicative exchanges, where melody, harmony and rhythm became vehicles for spontaneous creative thought.
British pianist Melvyn Tan celebrates his 60th birthday with the Australian premiere of English composer Jonathan Dove's Catching Fire, commissioned for his milestone.
Sarah Baras is a consummate performer and the absolute centre of the production, uneven in its choreographic focus.
'I feel flamenco in everything I think and everything I do': the acclaimed dancer pays tribute to her forebears in the Melbourne Festival show Voces.
The British-German company's adaptation "ranks among the worst pieces of theatre I've ever seen".
This was one of those gigs where it was hard to tell whether performer or audience was happier to be there.
A commanding performance enlivened by Ex Machina's stunning design, Lepage's autobiographical story weaves exquisite links between memories.
The frontwoman of neo-folk group Dead Can Dance sang mostly in tongues, and had the audience enraptured.
Eight groups of artists have taken over the Vic Market for two weeks during the Melbourne Festival.
Chiharu Shiota's tall houses made from yarn are enchanting structures, as if a set of doll's houses enmeshed in pink strands of sugar.
Grant Lee Phillips is back in Australia to perform three exclusive shows at the Melbourne Festival this week.
Joyful, uplifting, creative, and inspiring, this work captures human athletic prowess and vulnerability in elegant and intersecting pathways through space.
The French-Canadian composer is indeed a musical conjuror.
"Nothing has changed, everything has changed," is the full David Bowie couplet that gives this rock-orchestral tribute its name.
Gawkers spilled out onto the pavement outside Razor Dolls, a hip hair salon at the Windsor end of Chapel St, on Saturday, to witness an unusual Melbourne Festival event, Haircuts by Children.
Would you eat a scone laced with blood? Our reviewer Jordan Beth Vincent did as part of Blood Lines, a challenging program of four works at Dancehouse.
Students from Melbourne University's Faculty of Music and members of the Australian National Academy of Music collaborate to display facets of Percy Grainger's career, beginning with the composer's forays into the exotic.
Jess Thom is hardwired for comic chaos – she's got two clowns wrestling for the one body – and watching her react to and improvise around all the nutty outbursts that hijack the show is a delight.
Kanga's interpretation was engrossing, with the performance reaching a serenely illuminating climax across the last two sonatas.
Australian music royalty celebrate David Bowie's legacy with an orchestral extravaganza.
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