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ISPA OUT ON THE TOWN
SCHEDULE
Melbourne is Australia’s most culturally
vibrant city and all year round audiences
can experience an incredible diversity of live
performances.
Saturday 28 May
Whilst you are in Melbourne for the 98th ISPA
Congress, REIMAGINING, we encourage you
to see as much as you can – you never know
what gem you might discover.
The following list of events captures some
performances that are happening over
the week of the Congress. From work-indevelopment showings to parties, meet-andgreets to world-class theatre, it certainly
gives you a snapshot of live performance in
our vibrant and inspiring city.
To find out more about any of the events
or companies, speak to the team at the
Congress Registration and Information desk
throughout the week.
13:00 – 15:00
The Pearlfishers
Opera Australia
Arts Centre Melbourne
13:00 – 15:45
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
14:00 – 15:40
Brahms’ Fourth Symphony
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Arts Centre Melbourne
16:00 – 17:15
Heart is Racing
The Letter String Quartet
Melbourne Recital Centre
16:00 – 17:30
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
18:00 – 21:30
Pasifika Showcase
Multicultural Arts Victoria
Eastbank Centre, Shepparton
19:00 – 20:15
Heart is Racing
The Letter String Quartet
Melbourne Recital Centre
19:30 – 20:30
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
19:30 – 21:45
La Bohème
Opera Australia Arts Centre Melbourne
19:30 – 22:15
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse 20:00 – 21:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
20:30 – 22:00
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
18:00 – 19:00
Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black
Melbourne Recital Centre
18:30 – 20:00
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
20:00 – 21:45
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
Monday 30 May
This project has been assisted by the Australian
Government through the Australia Council for the
Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Cover image from Chunky Move’s AORTA (2013)
Photo: Jeff Busby
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All information is correct at the time of publication.
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Tuesday 31 May
Wednesday 1 June
18:00 – 19:10
Rhapsody
Southern Cross Soloists
Melbourne Recital Centre
10:00 – 11:10
en route
one step at a time like this
Outside Melbourne Central
18:30 – 20:00
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
10:30 – 12:05
Back at the Dojo
Stuck Pigs Squealing/Belvoir Theatre Arena Theatre Company
rehearsal room
18:30 – 21:15
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
10:30 – 12:30
Footscray Train Station
19:00 – 20:00
Out of Earshot (development showing)
KAGE
Abbotsford Convent
Weekly Ticket: the artist at the station
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
Art Projects 12:15 – 13:25
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
en route
one step at a time like this
Outside Melbourne Central
19:30 – 20:30
18:30 – 20:15
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
The Magic Hour Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company
La Mama Courthouse
19:30 – 20:40
19:00 – 20:00
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Arts House
20:00 – 21:30
19:00 – 21:00
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
For Heaven’s Sake
Born in a Taxi
City Square
20:00 – 21:45
19:30 – 20:30
A Taste of Circus Oz & TWENTYSIXTEEN
Circus Oz
Circus Oz Collingwood
19:30 – 20:30
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
19:30 – 20:40
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
19:30 – 21:30
Gasworks Circus Showdown
Various Artists
Gasworks Arts Park
19:30 – 22:15
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
19:30 – 20:30
Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
La Mama
20:00 – 21:30
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
20:00 – 21:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
20:00 – 21:45
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
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Thursday 2 June
Friday 3 June
17:00 – 19:15
Opening Ceremony The Light In Winter
Federation Square
18:00 – 18:45
Lucy Guerin Inc: Meet and Greet
Lucy Guerin Inc
The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Room
19:00 – 20:00
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Arts House
19:00 – 19:45
Confusion for Three Jo Lloyd The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla
Room
19:30 – 20:30
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
19:00 – 20:00
Arts House
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
19:30 – 20:40
19:30 – 20:30
Chunky Move Studio
19:30 – 21:15
The Magic Hour Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company
La Mama Courthouse
L U C I D
Chunky Move
19:30 – 20:30
La Mama
19:30 – 21:30
Gasworks Circus Showdown
Various Artists
Gasworks Arts Park
Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
19:30 – 20:40
19:30 – 20:30
Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
La Mama
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
19:30 – 20:45
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
19:30 – 22:15
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
Confrontations: PBS Young Elder of Jazz
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
19:30 – 21:15
La Mama Courthouse
20:00 – 21:30
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
The Magic Hour Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company
19:30 – 21:30
NICA National Circus Centre
20:00 – 21:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
Things NOT of this EARTH
Circus Showcase 2016: Dress Rehearsal
19:30 – 21:40
Melbourne Recital Centre
20:00 – 21:45
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
Gary Bartz Quartet (USA)
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
19:30 – 22:15
The Coopers Malthouse 20:30 – 21:40
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Arts House
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
20:00 – 21:30
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
20:00 – 21:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
20:00 – 21:50
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Arts Centre Melbourne
20:30 – 21:40
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Arts House
20:30 – 22:00
Edmund. The Beginning
Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions
Arts House
20:30 – 00:00
Arts House Party Arts House
23:00 – late
Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
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Saturday 4 June
13:00 – 15:45
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
13:30 – 14:40
en route
one step at a time like this
Outside Melbourne Central
14:00 – 15:00
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Arts House
14:00 – 15:10
The Walking Neighbourhood
Lenine Burke
Arts Centre Melbourne
14:00 – 15:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
15:30 – 17:00
Edmund. The Beginning
Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions
Arts House
15:45 – 16:55
en route
one step at a time like this
Outside Melbourne Central
16:00 – 17:30
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
16:00 – 17:45
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
17:30 – 18:40
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Arts House
19:00 – 20:00
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Arts House
19:00 – 20:15
Lionel Loueke + the Vampires
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
19:30 – 20:30
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
19:30 – 20:30
Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
La Mama
19:30 – 20:40
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
19:30 – 21:15
The Magic Hour Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company
La Mama Courthouse
19:30 – 21:30
Gasworks Circus Showdown
Various Artists
Gasworks Arts Park
19:30 – 21:40
Robert Glasper Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Melbourne Recital Centre
19:30 – 22:15
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
20:00 – 21:30
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre
20:00 – 21:50
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Arts Centre Melbourne
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20:30 – 21:40
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolfe/Savage Amusement
Arts House
20:30 – 22:00
Straight White Men
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
20:30 – 22:15
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Arts Centre Melbourne
21:30 – 22:45
Lionel Loueke + the Vampires
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
23:00 – late
Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
10:00 – 11:10
The Walking Neighbourhood
Lenine Burke
Arts Centre Melbourne
14:00 – 15:10
The Walking Neighbourhood
Lenine Burke
Arts Centre Melbourne
15:00 – 16:00
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Arts House
15:00 – 17:00 Jazz High Tea – Chelsea Wilson
Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne
16:00 – 17:45
The Magic Hour Cicero’s Circle Theatre
La Mama Courthouse
17:00 – 18:00
L U C I D
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studio
17:00 – 19:45
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse
17:30 –18:40
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Arts House
18:00 – 19:10
Resident Alien by Tim Fountainfortyfivedownstairs
Cameron Lukey Presents
19:30 – 20:30
Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
La Mama
23:00 – late
Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
Sunday 5 June
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A Taste of Circus Oz and TWENTYSIXTEEN
Circus Oz
Circus Oz: 50 Perry Street, Collingwood
Circus and meet and greet new Artistic Director, Rob Tannion
1 June | 7:30pm | 60 minutes
Booking Details: email Teena Munn [email protected] for transport
and catering purposes.
Getting There: a bus will depart from Arts Centre Melbourne at 6:45pm and return
post event.
www.circusoz.com
THEATRE
CIRCUS
EVENTS
After nearly losing his mind in the abandon of 1960s America, young Danny (who happens to
share a name with Lally’s father) finds his way again with the help of an enigmatic sensei. At
a New Jersey karate dojo, he and other mislaid souls make their way back into the world, and
Danny bumps into a woman called Lois… Meanwhile, in present-day Australia, Danny’s long-lost
grandson has decided to become Patti Smith…
Come meet our new Artistic Director, internationally acclaimed Rob Tannion, see our almost
brand-new home, watch an excerpt from our upcoming big top show, TWENTYSIXTEEN
(opening 15 June) and share some drinks and nibbles with us afterwards.
Inspired by the true events that brought Dan and Lois Katz together, Back at the Dojo features
a Hogarthian parade of characters, two real-life karate masters, and the incomparable Luke
Mullins (Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie). Belvoir joins forces with legendary Melbourne
company Stuck Pigs Squealing for this ravishing, nourishing story about the myths families
live by.
PARTY
Arts House Party
Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Party
3 June | 8:30pm | 210 minutes
Booking Details: a free event for ISPA delegates. RSVP encouraged –
[email protected].
Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth Street to stop #12.
www.artshouse.com.au
Join Melbourne’s independent artists and the team at Arts House for a not-to-be-missed party
during this year’s ISPA Congress. We’ll provide the food, drinks and DJs, so all you need to do is
turn up and wear your best pair of dancing shoes.
Attend one of the performances that are on at Arts House before the party, stay for a drink and
kick on into the night. We look forward to having you as our guest.
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Interdisciplinary
TWENTYSIXTEEN is a refreshing cocktail of new and old, innovation and tradition. Our turbocharged acrobats will be bringing amazing new skill and wizardry to the flying trapeze, the
Chinese pole and unicycle adagio, as well as a brand new group-juggling act, and so much
more.
With two hours of high-voltage acrobatics and explosive aerial antics all accompanied by the
sensational Circus Oz band, TWENTYSIXTEEN is classic Circus Oz: absurd Australian larrikins
pushing the boundaries of possibility and defying the laws of physics.
Back at the Dojo
Stuck Pigs Squealing and Belvoir Theatre
Arena Theatre Company Rehearsal Room: 130 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne
Theatre: New work, contemporary text based
1 June | 10:30am | 95 minutes
Booking Details: Reservation required – email Nina Bonacci [email protected].
Getting There: train to North Melbourne Station or taxi.
www.belvoir.com.au/productions/back-at-the-dojo
From the utterly marvellous mind of Lally Katz comes a modern romance about wanderlust,
love and karate. Lally has spent the past decade turning her life into a series of hilarious and
theatrically gorgeous plays. This time it’s her parents’ turn.
Blood on the Dance Floor
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme
Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Interdisciplinary: Theatre, projection, text and choreography
1 – 5 June | Wednesday – Saturday 7pm, Saturday 2pm, Sunday 3pm | 60 minutes
Booking Details: Tickets available through www.artshouse.com.au – use ISPA code when booking for discount. Tickets can also be purchased on the door subject to availability. Arts House box office opens one hour before the show.
Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth St to stop #12.
www.artshouse.com.au
Blood on the Dance Floor explores the legacies and memories of our bloodlines, our need for
community and what blood means to each of us, questioning how this most precious fluid
unites and divides us.
A choreographer, dancer and writer from the Narangga and Kaurna nations of South Australia,
Jacob Boehme was diagnosed with HIV in 1998. In search of answers, he reached out to his
ancestors. Through a powerful blend of theatre, image, text and choreography, Jacob pays
homage to their ceremonies whilst dissecting the politics of gay, Blak and poz identities.
Blood on the Dance Floor is an unapologetic, passionate and visceral narrative that traverses
time, space and characters. A story of our need to love and be loved, Jacob’s striking monologue
reveals our secret identities and our deepest fears, seeking to invoke ancestral lineage in a
contemporary quest for courage and hope.
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dance
MUSIC
Brahms’ Fourth Symphony
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Music: Classical
28 May | 2pm | 100 minutes
Booking Details:
www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2016-season/brahms-fourth-symphony
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.mso.com.au
The young Dresden-born conductor Christoph König directs this intriguing program of Ravel,
Bartók and Brahms.
Maurice Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin is an homage to the composer’s courtly forebear,
François Couperin. Originally a six-movement suite for piano, Le tombeau is more frequently
heard in its orchestrated version, completed (minus two movements) in 1919.
Confrontations: PBS Young Elder of Jazz
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
3 June | 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm) | 75 minutes
Booking Details:
www.melbournejazz.com/program/confrontations-pbs-young-elder-of-jazz
Getting There: train to Melbourne Central Station, walk, or any Swanston Street tram.
melbournejazz.com
Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required at Bennetts Lane
Jazz Club (please call +61 (0)3 9663 2856).
World premiere of the 2016 PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission. Multi-award winning pianist
and composer Joe O’Connor has created Confrontations, a stunning set of six dialogues
exploring conflict and multiplicity in improvisation. Inspired by and performed in collaboration
with Australian jazz luminary Scott Tinkler, Confrontations balances tonal and non-tonal
harmony, regular and irregular rhythm, delicate lyricism and impressive density. The PBS Young
Elder of Jazz Commission is generously supported by Mark Newman.
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Hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling
system of choreography. Navigating their physical histories, both recent and distant – from
traces of folk dance to idiosyncratic body rhythms – the performers reveal a series of desperate
encounters, in a destabilising flood of movement. The questions remain: can this confusion be
sustained, and where does it lead us?
Dance
MUSIC
Bela Bartók’s Viola Concerto (1945) was among his last pieces, but existed only in sketch form.
When asked if this was his Viola Concerto, the dying composer said, ‘Yes and no’. Completed
by one of Bartók’s colleagues, the work was given its world premiere in 1949, played by its
commissioner, violist William Primrose. Years later, Primrose recalled, ‘I paid [Bartók] what he
asked — $1,000 — and I played the concerto well over 100 times for fairly respectable fees. So it
was almost like getting in on the ground floor in investing in Xerox or the Polaroid camera.’
Confusion for Three
Jo Lloyd
The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Room: 113 Sturt Street, Southbank
Dance: Contemporary
3 June | 7pm | 45 minutes
Booking details: Free event for ISPA delegates. To book email [email protected] by 2 June at 5pm.
Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to
stop #18.
www.jolloyd.com
Independent Choreographer Jo Lloyd (current Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc) will
introduce and show an excerpt of her recent work, Confusion For Three, which premiered at
Arts House in August 2015. Jo’s work explores choreography as a social encounter, revealing
behaviour over specific durations, under particular circumstances.
CounterMove
Sydney Dance Company
Southbank Theatre: The Sumner
Contemporary Dance
25 May - 4 June | Tuesday – Saturday 8:00pm, Saturday 2:00pm | 90 minutes
Booking Details: save 20% off tickets when you quote SDCEXCLUSIVE online or via 03 8688 0800 www.mtc.com.au/countermove.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.sydneydancecompany.com
Sydney Dance Company opens 2016 with CounterMove — an exhilarating double bill that will
intrigue, move and entertain you. Alexander Ekman’s Cacti is a brilliantly conceived, laugh-outloud funny piece that dares to poke fun at contemporary dance. Featuring a string quartet live
on stage, Ekman’s witty and energetic choreography makes its Melbourne debut having left a
global trail of rapturous reviews. While Rafael Bonachela’s world premiere, Lux Tenebris explores
light and darkness with fiercely physical movement and deep, electronic beats by composer
Nick Wales (long-term collaborator of Sarah Blasko).
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Experimental
THEATRE
Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Theatre: Period thriller
30 May – 4 June | Monday – Thursady 8pm, Saturday 4pm and 8:30pm | 105 minutes
Booking Details: book online at mtc.com.au using booking code ISPAMTC or call the MTC box office direct on +61 (0)3 8688 0800. Tickets also available at the door, subject
to availability.
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.mtc.com.au/doubleindemnity
en route is a multi-award-winning pedestrian-based theatre experience. It is also a placemaking project that utilises audio, mobile phone communication, urban streetscapes, walking,
passers-by and cafés. Each production is uniquely created for the city space that it inhabits,
with its own soundtrack drawn from local musicians.
en route has enjoyed sell-out seasons in Chicago (Chicago Tribune Top Ten Shows of 2011),
London (2012 Cultural Olympiad commission) and five Australian cities (Winner of Adelaide
Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production and two Green Room Awards), Edinburgh (Traverse
Theatre), Seoul (translated version) and New Zealand. Edmund. The Beginning is both an exercise in distorted biography and a confessional torrent.
Brian Lipson summons a disordered array of characters from the impatient past and the
murky present: some are familiar, some are famous, some are known only to Brian. None are
comfortable. Fifteen years ago Brian Lipson’s acclaimed solo show, A Large Attendance in the
Antechamber, won two Green Room Awards before touring the world for the next seven years.
Brian is now considerably older and considerably less wise, but he can still talk very fast.
Edmund. The Beginning is even more complex than its predecessor, and each of its many
characters is both a real person and an imaginary figure. But who imagines whom? Who is
whom? Who is alive? Who is dead? And why?
In Edmund. The Beginning, literary giants, sirens, reprobates and infants cavort in existential
quadrille. A few you will recognise, others you won’t.
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en route is also a love song to a city. Part traveller, witness and voyeur, the audienceparticipants are able to view a world in the process of making itself – en route – emerging,
dissolving, as perceptions, insights, senses, make and remake the city they inhabit. With en
route you’re seeing the city as if for the first time.
Experimental
THEATRE
One of the greatest crime novels of our times is given a brilliant stage adaptation by Tom
Holloway with direction by Sam Strong. Insurance agent Walter Huff has nosed around the
business long enough to smell a scam, so when he meets Phyllis Nirdlinger to talk about her
husband’s insurance coverage he gets a perfumed whiff of trouble. But she has a persuasive
way of putting things. Can’t a wife fix a little security for herself? After all, a beloved husband
can suffer a fatal accident just as easily as an honest guy can fall hard for a dame who’s
no good. The LA sunshine throws plenty of dark shadows in James M Cain’s sensational
thriller novels of the thirties and forties, of which this steamy tale of murder and desire is the
undoubted masterpiece.
Edmund. The Beginning
Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions
Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Theatre: New work, solo
3 and 4 June | Friday 8:30pm, Saturday 3:30pm | 90 minutes
Booking Details: This is a free event for ISPA members. Tickets available through
http://bit.do/edmund2, use booking code ISPA when booking or email
[email protected] to book your tickets.
Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth St to stop #12.
www.artshouse.com.au
en route
one step at a time like this
Melbourne CBD: Starting location outside Melbourne Central Station
Experimental: Extended notion of theatre
1 and 4 June | Wednesday 10am and 12:15pm, Saturday 1:30pm and 3:45pm |
70 minutes
Booking details: please email [email protected] to secure your booking.
Getting There: details will be provided when booking.
www.onestepatatimelikethis.com/enroute.html
For Heaven’s Sake
Born in a Taxi
City Square: 44–86 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Experimental: New work created for outdoor public spaces. Non-verbal with playful audience participation.
1 June | 7pm | 120 minutes
Booking Details: Free outdoor event. No bookings required.
Getting There: walk or any tram down Swanston Street/St Kilda Road.
www.borninataxi.com.au
Set inside a transparent CUBE, For Heaven’s Sake is a playful, participatory outdoor
performance. Stunningly visual, beautifully poetic and often absurd, For Heaven’s Sake connects
community in the spirit of play.
Trapped in the “Institute of Heaven” three Angels go about their business sending messages
between the divine and the mortal. An apparition of compassionate souls, the mysterious
unveiled. Mortals can observe from afar, come for a blessing or cross over briefly into the
heavenly realm! From within the illuminated walls of Nirvana, the Angels conduct a series of
events designed to unify an audience of strangers – from the genesis of an audience Deity, to a
Mass Baptism, to a spontaneous collective dance. The work swings between the profound, the
kitsch and the joyful.
For Heaven’s Sake is an opportunity to slow down, take a breath and reflect on how we engage
with each other and what is sacred.
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music
music
Gary Bartz Quartet (USA)
Melbourne International Jazz Festival Opening Night
Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
3 June | 7.30pm | 130 minutes
Booking Details:
www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/gary-bartz-quartet-usa
Tickets also available at the door.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.melbournerecital.com.au
‘Songwriters strike a chord with string quartet.’ The Age
An unmissable Opening Night event honouring an icon of jazz.
The Letter String Quartet launches its 2016 concert series with Heart Is Racing, an exciting
amalgamation of the musical musings of two continents.
Having not only witnessed but helped create jazz as we know it today, Gary Bartz has been at
the forefront of jazz for nearly six decades. With a career ranging across post-bop, jazz-funk
and free jazz, Bartz is counted amongst the pantheon of jazz greats, having shared the stage
with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and
many more. Renowned for his legendary, non-stop live performances, Bartz’s compelling blend
of earthiness and elegance infuses decades of experience into every note, creating a ‘furnace of
power and passion’.
Gasworks Circus Showdown
Various Artists
Gasworks Arts Park: 21 Graham Street, Albert Park
Circus and physical theatre
1, 2 and 4 June | 7:30pm | 120 minutes
Booking Details: Can purchase on the door but booking recommended:
www.gasworks.org.au/event/gasworks-circus-showdown.
Getting There: www.gasworks.org.au/visit-us/find-us
www.gasworks.org.au
Gasworks Circus Showdown is the only performance opportunity of its kind in Australia. A
festival of circus performance, it is one-part competition, one-part showcase, and spotlights a
selection of exceptional circus and physical theatre talent from Melbourne and beyond.
Gasworks Circus Showdown culminates in the Gasworks Circus Showdown Spectacular… and
who will be crowned the Gasworks Circus Showdown champion!
Eight acts will battle it out across two nights (Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 June), and four
acts will proceed to the Gasworks Circus Showdown Spectacular on Saturday 4 June. A panel of
industry experts and you, the audience, will have your say on who will be crowned the Gasworks
Circus Showdown Champion!
Central to the performance will be the world premiere of Australian/American composer
Wally Gunn’s latest string quartet commissioned by The Letter String Quartet, Blood, an aural
mapping of the circulatory system of the body.
Also featuring the works of renown American composers Erik DeLuca and Caroline Shaw
(2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music), and Australia’s award-winning pianist/composer
Andrea Keller, this concert will captivate the quartet’s growing cult audience and introduce
new listeners to the quartet’s wild music highs, unique fusing of strings and voices and love of
improvisation.
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circus
For the Opening Night of the 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Bartz is joined by his
long-standing Quartet, comprising Greg Bandy, one of the original drum stylists, bassist James
King, and Melbourne’s very own Barney McAll, to perform their latest project – Coltrane Rules,
Tao of a Music Warrior – honouring the icon with classic Coltrane renditions that would make
him proud.
Heart is Racing
The Letter String Quartet
Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne
Music: Contemporary Classical
28 May | 4pm and 7pm | 75 minutes
Booking Details: melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/heart-is-racing. Tickets also available at the door.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.melbournerecital.com.au
Jazz High Tea
Chelsea Wilson
The Pavilion, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
5 June | 3pm | 120 minutes
Booking Details: must be booked by 3pm Friday 3 June at
www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2016/world-jazz-folk/jazz-high-tea-
chelsea-wilson?m=performances.
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.artscentremelbourne.com.au
Melbourne’s two great loves, food and culture, converge in an afternoon of high tea and
Australia’s finest jazz talent.
The June edition of this elegant high tea experience welcomes Chelsea Wilson, a Melbournebased jazz and soul vocalist who has performed in Japan, France, Indonesia, Thailand, the
Caribbean and UAE and made her UK debut at the iconic Glastonbury Festival 2015.
Enjoy your jazz in style, with a glass of Katnook sparkling wine on arrival, before an indulgent
spread of house-made cakes, pastries and savoury treats, and freshly brewed tea.
The winning act will receive a professional development prize valued at more than $4,000.
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Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required. Please
call +61(0)3 96632856.
Joe Chindamo and Zoë Black continue their trailblazing commitment to new music.
Interspersed in this program will be world premieres from Joe’s pen and innovative reimaginings
of well-loved classics, as you’ve never heard them before.
‘Hue Blanes has a transcendent voice, perfect timing and an angelic touch on the piano, he’s a
star.’ Deborah Conway
Join us at Bennetts Lane for Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s late night jam sessions.
Led by the remarkable Hue Blanes Trio, Late Night Jams are all about losing yourself in the
spontaneity and excitement of these improvised sessions.
In September 2015 Zoë and Joe made their Carnegie Hall debut with their latest release, The
New Goldberg Variations, which met with critical acclaim. ‘They give you a fine new look at
what can go with [Bach’s Goldberg Variations] a second work that can take its place proudly
next to the original. It is a must for all Bachaholics as well as anybody looking for a new sonic
experience. Bravo!’ – Grego Applegate Edwards, Classical-Modern Music Review (New York).
opera
Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
3 – 5 June | 11pm – late
Booking Details: tickets at the door.
Getting There: train to Melbourne Central, walk, or any Swanston Street tram.
www.melbournejazz.com
World premieres and reimagining classics.
La Bohème (Puccini)
Opera Australia
Opera Australia, State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Opera
28 May | 7:30pm | 135 minutes
Booking Details: www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/opera/la-boheme
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.opera.org.au
La Bohème is a celebration of first loves.
Cafe Momus is beckoning, with its glittering lights, bohemian spirit and fishnet stocking-clad
ladies. Rodolfo is mooning over Mimì, Marcello is fuming over Musetta and the stage is set for
first loves, first heartbreaks and a grief that’s all too real. It’s La Bohème, one of the world’s
favourite operas.
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Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black
Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne
Music: Contemporary Classical
30 May | 6pm | 60 minutes
Booking Details: melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/joe-chindamo-and-zoe-
black-i. Tickets also available at the door.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.melbournerecital.com.au
Lionel Loueke + The Vampires
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
4 June | 7pm and 9:30pm (doors open 30 minutes prior) | 75 minutes
Booking Details: www.melbournejazz.com/program/lionel-loueke-the-vampires
Getting There: train to Melbourne Central Station, walk, or any Swanston Street tram.
www.melbournejazz.com
Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required. Please
call +61(0)3 96632856.
Guitarist Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the jazz world, collaborating with seminal
jazz figures including Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Herbie Hancock, who has praised
Loueke as “a musical painter”.
Sydney’s The Vampires are renowned for their blend of soulful jazz, old-school reggae, exotic
Balkan melodies and all-out funk-laden Afrobeat. Their risk-taking improvisational style and
exhilarating interplay meet Lionel Loueke’s musical mastery and deep knowledge of African folk
forms in a must-see collaboration.
Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote his smash-hit La Bohème, this story of first love still tops
the list of favourite operas around the world. La Bohème is a story we understand. It’s about
friendship and falling in love. It’s about sacrifice and never giving up, even if it means parting
with your lover – or your favourite coat. Gale Edwards’ glittering production, set in the bohemian
streets of 1930s Berlin, returns to Melbourne with international stars Lianna Haroutounian and
Gianluca Terranova, conducted by Andrea Molino.
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dance
LUCID
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Studios: 111 Sturt Street, Southbank
Dance: Contemporary
28 May – 5 June | Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 5pm | 60 minutes
Booking Details: book tickets through www.trybooking.com/KTUC. Use booking code CHUNKISPA to access discounted tickets or email [email protected].
Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18.
www.chunkymove.com.au
Heroes, icons, imagined worlds and censored dreams. We relentlessly create, monitor and edit
our own image in response to an abundance of references and influences. In a hyperconscious
world, how do we define ourselves? Mira Fuchs is an expert. An expert private dancer.
She’s also the public face of artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s eight-year private life as a stripper in a
gentleman’s club. Mira wants to dance you through the myriad questions and contradictions of
her work, that time and her world. In an intimate, in-the-round work, Melanie speaks, prances
and twists her way through an abstracted memoir that trips between lap-dance and body
politics. With humour, high heels and deep insight, she fashions a looking glass for our own
reflections on the work of stripping.
Chunky Move – Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company – presents the world premiere
of L U C I D, an intimate work for two performers, multiple cameras and a screen, which
interrogates how we imagine and reconstruct our identities.
Motion Picture is Lucy Guerin’s 11th full-length work for her Melbourne-based company, and
premiered at Arts House, Melbourne during Dance Massive in March 2015. It is now scheduled to
tour in January 2017 to Theatre de la Ville in Paris and other venues in France and Belgium. Artistic Director Lucy Guerin will provide delegates with insights into the company’s rich history
and future projects, which will be followed by a Q&A session.
We invite you to join Lucy and the dancers for wine and cheese after the performance.
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Leave your preconceptions with the coat-check and step into an oft-hidden economy of desire
and exchange. Both entertaining and unflinchingly personal, MIRA FUCHS tantalisingly explores
sexuality, gender, performance, intimacy, dance-as-labour, looking and being looked at, and
pleasure, in a world where money is time and timing is everything.
OPENING CEREMONY
dance
Following Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk’s latest critically acclaimed
works Complexity of Belonging (2014) and Depth of Field (2015), L U C I D sees two performers
travel to places where they can be all that they desire, fear or censor. Shapeshifting in and out
of other people’s skins, they confront themselves in reflections of others. L U C I D reveals the
many faces we present to the world; a culmination of the carefully crafted or those released by
fearless abandon. Lucy Guerin Inc: Meet and Greet
Lucy Guerin Inc
The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Room: 113 Sturt St, Southbank
Dance: Contemporary
3 June | 6pm | 45 minutes
Booking Details: RSVP essential via email [email protected] by 2 June at 5pm.
Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18.
www.LucyGuerinInc.com
Acclaimed contemporary dance company Lucy Guerin Inc invites ISPA delegates to an informal
“meet and greet” event that will feature a short excerpt of the company’s most recent work,
Motion Picture.
MIRA FUCHS
Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement
Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Theatre: Interdisciplinary
2 – 5 June | Thursday – Friday 8:30pm, Saturday 5:30pm and 8:30pm,
Sunday 5:30pm | 70 minutes
Booking Details: tickets available www.artshouse.com.au. Tickets can also be purchased on the door subject to availability. Box office opens one hour before the show.
Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth Street to stop #12.
www.artshouse.com.au
Opening Ceremony The Light In Winter
Federation Square, Corner Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne
Opening Ceremony
2 June | 5pm | 135 minutes
Booking Details: bookings not required.
Getting There: walk from Deakin Edge, Federation Square to the ceremony.
www.fedsquare.com/umbrellas/the-light-in-winter
This year The Light in Winter celebrates its tenth anniversary, marking ten years of warming up
the heart of Melbourne at Fed Square through a combination of major light-art commissions
with hearty community participation.
The opening ceremony will acknowledge the ten years of the festival and its community
participants, as they are welcomed once again to Leempeeyt Weeyn’, the Indigenous Campfire
which artist Vicki Couzens created for the very first The Light in Winter. The fire will be lit that
night, in the presence of delegates to the ISPA Congress, and will remain burning at the front
of Federation Square for the whole of the winter season: the sight and smell of the smoke has
become a beautiful marker of the coldest months.
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dance
Out of Earshot (development showing)
KAGE
Oratory, The Abbotsford Convent: 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
Dance: Contemporary dance theatre
31 May | 7pm | 20-minute performance followed by discussion of work and chance to have a drink with artistic team. Total duration 60 minutes.
Booking Details: email [email protected] to confirm attendance. Some tickets will be available at the door.
Getting There: taxi or train to Victoria Park Station then walk or bus #200 or #207 to Clarke Street. Information on transport options can be found on the Abbotsford Convent website: www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visit/visitor-information#getting-here.
www.kage.com.au
Audiences should prepare to be enthralled and enraptured in this program showcasing the
dark side of love and life. Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending? That was the mad plan for the
ballet that Sergei Prokofiev composed for the Bolshoi in 1935. Thankfully sanity intervened – or,
at least, Soviet cultural officers did – and the result is far from a saccharine love story, instead
delivering a violent, stormy climate for our star-cross’d lovers.
Directed by Kate Denborough, Out of Earshot will feature a profoundly Deaf dancer as well
as a renowned contemporary jazz musician exploring the power of non-verbal language,
intense physicality and the role that sound plays within communication. The cross-artform
performance will be created with KAGE’s signature style of vibrant storytelling and distinctive
aesthetic, which has proved to resonate strongly with a broad audience.
Also on this all-Russian program is a rare chance to hear Mussorgsky’s equally tempestuous
Night on Bald Mountain, and one of Rachmaninov’s greatest works, his Piano Concerto
No.2. The genesis of this concerto may in part be attributed to one Dr Nikolai Dahl: Moscow
physician, amateur musician and hypnosis therapist and the name that appears as the
dedicatee. It is said that Dr Dahl and his swinging pocket-watch helped the composer emerge
from a crippling depression, enabling him to write the work that would go on to bring him so
much glory.
Following an initial one-week creative development in 2015, KAGE is beginning rehearsals on 16
May 2016 and invites ISPA delegates to attend a creative development showing on Tuesday 31
May to find out more about this bold new work.
It is performed by award-winning Korean pianist Joyce Yang, who has been described by critics
as an ‘astonishing artist’ and makes a welcome return to Melbourne and the MSO. The concert
is conducted by Diego Matheuz.
Pasifika Showcase
Multicultural Arts Victoria, Know Your Roots, The Robertsons and Riverlinks
Eastbank Centre: 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton
Dance: Contemporary, traditional Pacific Islander
Music: Hip Hop, Soul, RnB, Gospel
Interdisciplinary: Traditional ceremonies and rituals and feasts
28 May | 6pm | 210 minutes
Booking Details: www.riverlinksvenues.com.au
Getting There: Drive, V/Line trains and buses – phone 136 196 or www.vline.com.au.
www.riverlinksvenues.com.au or www.multiculturalarts.com.au
Resident Alien by Tim Fountain
Cameron Lukey Presents
fortyfivedownstairs: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Theatre
25 May – 12 June | Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 6pm | 70 minutes
Booking Details: +61 (0)3 9662 9966 or go to www.fortyfivedownstairs.com. Use booking code ISPA to access discounted tickets. Tickets available at the door subject
to availability.
Getting There: Walk or any tram down St Kilda Road/Swanston Street.
www.cameronlukey.com
From his early years as an androgynous nude model in 1930s London, to finding fame as the first
to speak so openly about life as a gay man, there was no-one quite like Quentin Crisp. In Tim
Fountain’s Resident Alien, the legendary author opens the door to his famously filthy New York
apartment for an unforgettable heart-to-heart about life as only he knows it. Oprah Winfrey,
Princess Diana, oral sex – no topic is off limits as Quentin explains, in his inimitable way, how to
be happy.
Multicultural Arts Victoria, Know Your Roots, The Robertsons and Riverlinks present Pasifika
Showcase, the first major showcase in Shepparton of its rich local Pacific culture, music, dance
and food on Saturday 28 May at the Eastbank Centre, Shepparton (a two-hour drive from
Melbourne).
The evening will feature a traditional Kava ceremony, performances by local acts The
Robertsons, Mike and Cheryl, Brenda Hafoka, Generation Ignite, and Shepparton High School’s
Know Your Roots Crew. There will also be a talent quest, a Samoan feast from Nana’s Little
Island and Nuholani and Tama Tatau.
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MUSIC/dance
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Music: Classical
3 – 4 June | 8pm | 110 minutes
Booking Details:
www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2016-season/prokofievs-romeo-and-juliet
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.mso.com.au
In KAGE’s newest work Out of Earshot, everyday language becomes both redundant and
indefinable while the meaning remains unmistakable. Imagine listening with your eyes and
using your heart, your hands and your instinct to voice your emotions. Imagine watching a
performance where both sound and silence become unnecessary.
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Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Starring five-time Helpmann Award winner Paul Capsis as Crisp and directed by Green Room
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Rhapsody
Southern Cross Soloists
Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne
Music: Classical
31 May | 6pm | 70 minutes
Booking Details: www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/new-zealandchamber-soloists. Tickets also available at the door.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.melbournerecital.com.au
An enchanting program of lyrical and rhapsodic masterpieces. Southern Cross Soloists,
Ensemble in Residence at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents Rhapsody, an
enchanting program of lyrical and rhapsodic masterpieces.
A prodigiously talented pianist, Glasper rose to prominence through his striking combination
of acoustic jazz, hip-hop and R&B and his ground-breaking Black Radio albums. Yet, it was his
desire to perpetually reinvent himself that gave rise to his Grammy-nominated record, Covered –
his ode to those that have influenced him.
In a long-awaited return to an acoustic trio format, Glasper has reunited with long-term
collaborators Vicente Archer and Damion Reid to reconfigure the music of John Legend,
Radiohead, Harry Belafonte and Joni Mitchell – alongside jazz standards and a number of
Glasper originals.
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music
Experience modern jazz’s newest master. Having spent the past decade reinterpreting and
reimagining modern jazz, Robert Glasper has firmly cemented himself as a master of a new
generation.
Melbourne Theatre Company
Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Theatre: Drama/Comedy
28 May – 4 June | Monday – Tuesday 6:30pm, Wednesday – Friday 8pm, Saturday 4pm and 8:30pm | 90 minutes
Booking Details: book online at mtc.com.au using booking code ISPAMTC or call the MTC box office direct on +61 (0)3 8688 0800. Tickets also available at the door, subject
to availability.
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.mtc.com.au/swm
Director Sarah Giles takes on the razor-edged new comedy from one of American theatre’s
most acute observers of race and identity, Young Jean Lee. Christmas is for family, and brothers
Matt, Jake and Drew gather at their Dad’s house for the usual observances of the holiday
season, adding a few rituals of their own, such as playing politically-correct board games and
worrying about what Mum would think. Although she’s been dead for some time now, their
liberal, feminist mother still casts a vast shadow. She taught them how being heterosexual
white males gives them an unfair advantage in America. But, as carefree youth gives way to
mid-life anxiety, privileged is the last thing they feel.
A unique chamber music ensemble comprising of leading musicians from around Australia,
Southern Cross Soloists deliver exciting and uplifting performances in their signature up close
and personal style. From Ravel’s fantastically twirling La Valse, to Debussy’s gem Rhapsody for
clarinet to Gershwin’s revolutionary Rhapsody in Blue, tonight’s program will charm and delight.
Robert Glasper Trio
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne
Music: Jazz
4 June | 7.30pm | 2 hrs 10 minutes (incl. interval)
Booking Details:
www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/robert-glasper-trio-usa Tickets also available at the door.
Getting There: walk or #1 tram.
www.melbournerecital.com.au
Straight White Men
The Glass Menagerie
A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre
The Coopers Malthouse, home of Malthouse Theatre: 113 Sturt Street, Southbank
Theatre
18 May – 5 June | Tuesday 6:30pm, Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Saturday 1pm, Sunday 5pm | 165 minutes
Booking Details: phone +61 (0)3 9685 5111, email [email protected], or in person at the venue.
Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18.
www.malthousetheatre.com.au
The Glass Menagerie is a story of memory, fragility, and delusion told through a fractured
kaleidoscope on stage and screen. Meet the formidable Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern
Belle with delusions of grandeur. The year is 1937, and she’s trapped with her two adult children,
the frustrated Tom and the cripplingly shy Laura. All three of them yearn for a brighter future
but none can break free from their past. Could Laura’s “gentleman” caller be the answer?
Fresh from a sold-out season in Sydney, and starring Wentworth’s Pamela Rabe as the family’s
volatile matriarch, this production will have you grieving for the inevitable disintegration of a
family that is a stone’s throw away from collapse.
Having played alongside Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garrett and Esperanza
Spalding and contributed to the records of hip hop luminaries Kendrick Lamar, Q-Tip and Yasiin
Bey, Glasper is without doubt one of the most versatile and influential artists in jazz today, with
a style that is at once familiar and entirely unique.
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The Pearlfishers (Bizet)
Opera Australia
State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Opera
28 May | 1pm | 120 minutes
Booking Details:
www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/opera/the-pearlfishers
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.opera.org.au
The Pearlfishers paints a picture of paradise, of golden sands and colourful silks. That soulstirring, chart-topping duet is just one highlight of a beautiful score. In the hands of master
storyteller Michael Gow, Bizet’s romantic opera is a compelling tale. Two men swear loyalty to
each other but their love for the same woman is stronger than any vow. As the opera unfolds,
temptation duels with duty, true hearts turn black with jealousy and rash choices bring regrets.
Conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, and featuring Emma Matthews, Dmitry Korchak and José
Carbó, this new Pearlfishers offers audiences a chance to hear Bizet’s passionate music in a new
light. Performed in French with English surtitles.
children and young people
At a time when the greater political landscape in Australia is moving towards an Asia/Asianinclusive vision, this work in a very genuine way is trying to locate the form, essence and spirit
of Asian art forms, as embodied by Australian performers, in a performance that speaks via the
English language and the works of Shakespeare to a contemporary Australian audience.
The Walking Neighbourhood
Lenine Burke
Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Participatory work led by children and young people
4 and 5 June | Saturday 2pm, Sunday 10am and 2pm | 70 minutes
Booking Details: www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2016/families/the-
walking-neighbourhood
Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress.
www.artscentremelbourne.com.au
In The Walking Neighbourhood young people take the lead and give you the opportunity to
experience life through their eyes, as they take you on a unique guided walk of Melbourne’s Arts
Precinct.
In a series of short walks, they will take you on an exploration of the places and stories they
think are the most important. Each walk is one-of-a-kind and has been carefully curated for
participants to learn, reflect, create or explore something or someplace.
Audiences will delight in storytelling and discovery, as they are introduced to some of the more
curious, intriguing and interesting facets of our city. Expect the unexpected in each walk, with
music, dance, humour and a little bit of everyone’s own experiences wrapped up into this heartwarming event.
circus
dance
The Magic Hour
Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company
La Mama Courthouse: 349 Drummond Street, Carlton
Dance: Modern Contemporary
1 – 12 June | Wednesday 6:30pm, Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 4pm |
105 minutes
Booking Details: www.lamama.com.au
Getting There: any tram down Swanston Street to Melbourne University, then walk.
www.lamama.com.au
The Magic Hour is an exciting and flamboyant evening of music, dance and theatre that brings
together Kathakali and Odissi from India, Butoh from Japan, with Shakespearean theatre from
Elizabethan England.
Things NOT of this EARTH
Circus Showcase 2016: Dress Rehearsal
National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA)
NICA National Circus Centre: 41 Green Street, Prahran
Circus
3 June | 7:30pm | 90 – 110 minutes
Booking Details: Open dress rehearsal for ISPA delegates. Email [email protected] with the subject line ISPA Congress to book.
Getting There: train to Prahran Station and five-minute walk, #6 tram down St Kilda Road to stop #30, or taxi. Information on transport options can be found on the NICA website at www.nica.com.au/contacts-pm-2.html.
www.nica.com.au
Directed by renowned circus and theatre artist Hayden Spencer with associate direction from
award winning circus artist and NICA graduate Emma Serjeant, Things NOT of this EARTH
incorporates elite-level circus skills in a satirical romp towards an extra-terrestrial utopia.
Distinctive circus acts will be presented against the backdrop of a sci-fi inspired “B movie”.
In the tradition of all things “B movie”, the production will feature a diversity of other-worldly
delights including a killer hermaphrodite from outer space, a giant foot-juggling strawberry and
a soccer-ball-juggling alien.
Fourteen of NICA’s final year artists will present spectacular solo acts including aerial straps and
rope, Chinese pole, contortion, handstands, hula hoops, juggling, rolla bolla, roue Cyr, tightwire
and trapeze.
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Three Short Works
Lloyd Jones
La Mama Theatre: 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
Theatre: Experimental
June 1 – June 5 | Wednesday – Friday 7:30pm, Sunday 5:00pm | 60 minutes
Booking details: www.lamama.com.au
Getting There: Any tram to Melbourne University down Swanston St and walk.
Website: www.lamama.com.au
Since 1974 Lloyd Jones has been engaged in non-text-based theatrical forms, mainly at La
Mama and in this production continues his investigations into making theatre that is liberating
to both performers and audience.
Interdisciplinary
This involves examining the outcome of three apparently disconnected and nonsensical titles
and statements, to discover what unexpected ideas emerge from beneath the surface.
Weekly Ticket: the artist at the station
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey Art Projects
Footscray Station: Footscray Train Station, Hopkins and Irving Streets, Footscray
Interdisciplinary: A grand experiment
1 June | 10:30am | 120 minutes
Booking Details: no booking required.
Getting there: train to Footscray Station.
www.weeklyticket.org
What if a public artwork was an artist?
Weekly Ticket installs artist David Wells at Footscray Station every week for 15 years. David
begins the project aged 55 and completes it at 70, the new “retirement” age.
As the artist adapts to his environment and his environment to him, extraordinary
collaborations will emerge. Sometimes he will be alone. Sometimes he will be in a crowd. He
will be disguised in plain sight. The typical will become surreal and the extraordinary a regular
occurrence, as commuters, locals and visitors become part of a living and evolving public
artwork.
Over 15 years, many local, national and international artists will become part of the expanded
performative conversation. Weekly Ticket begins 3 February 2016 and finishes on 2 February 2031.
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