Boyle and Waters in Leotard at Metro Arts
Two performers. Dozens of vintage leotards. A million sequins.
Who were the women who wore these leotards? What were their secrets? And how many interpretive dance routines will there be?
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Leotards reveal the truth of the body, underneath the most absurd layers of adornment. In LEOTARD, Boyle and Waters reveal the truths of these characters under their absurd adornment of mental sequins. Leotard is a timely exploration of the performance of womanhood via ...
Dates announced for the 2020 Alliance Française French Film Festival
In keeping with such a momentous year, this beloved event will once again unveil a thrilling selection of contemporary French cinema, guaranteed to captivate and stimulate audiences around the country.
Presented by the Alliance Française in association with the Embassy of France in Australia and Unifrance Films, the 2020 season will screen at Palace Cinemas and affiliate locations throughout March and April, encompassing 8 cities and 4 satellite locations.
Celebrating his 4th year as ...
Ephemera by Benjamin Knapton is coming to Metro Arts
Created by Benjamin Knapton, the installation combines 40 interviews from people integral to Metro Arts over the past 40 years. Using various video editing techniques across a multitude of screens, the work provokes questions about place, community and social context: how can architecture, people and organisations interact to create something worth talking about?
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Ephemera is a kaleidoscopic event that will hold the mind, the eyes and the ears in equal enchantmen...
The Australian Ballet The Happy Prince is coming to QPAC next month
The possibilities for dance in Wilde’s characters – the golden Prince, his loyal friend the Swallow, the seductive Reed, the pitiful Match Girl – will be fabulously realised in Murphy’s distinctive choreographic style.
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The Happy Prince features a specially commissioned score from the renowned composer Christopher Gordon, who composed the scores for the films Mao’s Last Dancer, Ladies in Black and Master and Commander, alongside the work of award-winning ...
The award winning cabaret Exposing Edith is coming to QPAC this March
This breathtaking show features classics such “La Vie En Rose”, “Padam” and “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” uniquely reworked using voice and acoustic guitar to create an exquisite mix of authentic, vintage French pop and contemporary sounds.
Created and performed by Greg Wain on guitar and Australia’s very own ‘little sparrow’ Michaela Burger on vocals, the songs are punctuated with a collection of extraordinary stories of Piaf’s life which are recounted by Burger, who ...
Frankie Cosmos Australian 2020 Tour
Originally the solo project of prolific New York City-based songwriter Greta Kline, Frankie Cosmos blossomed into a four-piece with a collection of globally acclaimed albums to their name. The group’s most recent 2019 offering, Close It Quietly, is a continual reframing of the known. It’s like giving yourself a haircut or rearranging your room. You know your hair, you know your room. Here’s the same hair, the same room, seen again as something new.
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Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 Trailer is Here!
If you're keen to experience the latest sophisticated, vibrant and daring films from France, the Alliance Française French Film Festival is the place to do it.
Line-up, more information and tickets will be availble February 6, 2020.
www.affrenchfilmfestival.org
Hayley Sugars – Songs of Desire is coming to the Opera Queensland Studio
Hayley’s impressive career includes contracts with the prestigious German companies Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Landestheater Coburg. While in Europe, Hayley performed some 15 roles, including Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – a performance for which she was named a finalist in Germany’s prestigious Der Faust Awards.
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Since returning to Australia, Hayley has established herself as a loved voice ...
Just Mercy – Connoisseur Gourmet Ice-Cream preview screening at Palace Cinemas
Join Palace Cinemas from 6.00pm for a glass of prosecco and a Connoisseur Gourmet Ice-Cream stick on arrival before the screening commences at 6.15pm.
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Starring Michael B. Jordan and Oscar winners Jamie Foxx & Brie Larson, JUST MERCY brings one of the most important cases of our time to the big screen. Following the story of Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer who, rather than finding lucrative work after graduating from Harvard, moved to Alabama to defend those ...
Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages
Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages is a free thought-provoking exhibition about the survival and revival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
Over 125 Queensland languages were once spoken, now approximately 50 of these remain spoken daily. Join the journey of six Queensland communities saving their traditional languages.
Spoken presents an alternative retelling of the prevailing colonial narrative – placing rare historical records alongside the inspiring work ...
