InReview
SA arts & culture news in brief: Cab Fringe seeks to showcase the diversity of cabaret, arts identities pop up on stobie poles across Adelaide, The Mill presents work-in-progress showings of My Hair is Thinning, Flickerfest returns to the Mercury, get your SALA registrations in, and OzAsia earns national recognition.
Dance
In this contemporary dance piece on freedom in the modern age, the performers aren’t the only ones facing the scrutinising glare of the spotlight.
Artist Chris Yee, whose digital animation Perspective Pathways was chosen to illustrate the cover of the 2023 OzAsia Festival program, says he is motivated to tell stories around Australian-Asian identity through his colourful and dynamic creations.
Performer Njo Kong Kie honours the haunting poetry of late Chinese worker-poet Xiu Lizhi through a song cycle that causes audiences to question the human costs of modern global capitalism.
A moving story about on the life of Vietnamese-Australian musician Dung Nguyen, with himself at the centre of the performance, 1988 leaves an indelible impression.
Life, death, religion and Harvey Norman – this one-man show combines comedy and chaos with moments of reflection on the nature of existence.
Infectious beats and bold visuals fuse with breathtaking physicality as celebrated Bulareyaung Dance Company perform tiaen tiamen Episode 1 for the first time beyond the shores of Taiwan.
