Sydney Dance Company’s “Impermanence”. Photo: Pedro Greig
SYDNEY Dance Company’s full-length work, “Impermanence” is Rafael Bonachela’s newest creation. The company returns to the stage to find “energy, urgency, radiance and hope”, danced to Bryce Dessner’s music composition of the same name, commissioned and performed by the Australian String Quartet. At Canberra Theatre, June 4 and 5. Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
THE documentary film “YuwinjDhari Bulwal: Yuin Country Explored” responds to the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s journey along the east coast of Australia from a first nations’ perspective. It will be screened with a Q and A and a performance by the Four Winds Djinama Yilaga Choir. At the Gandel Atrium, National Museum of Australia, 6–8pm Friday, June 4. Bookings essential here.
Being in your 20s is, as Karydas explains in this song, to be in a state of constant flux. Karydas finds herself pining for the simplistic emotional responses of her youth, when things made sense to her. She still succumbs to childish worries, like acne and the dentist. A grazed knee sends her spinning back to when she was seven, when pain had an obvious physical cause and a definite treatment. âWhen did I get so fearful?â she asks. As the world whirs around her, she focuses on the freckles on her loverâs face, a constant in a shifting sea. This is an infectious and spritely pop song, with shades of Spiritus by Lisa Mitchell, and a yearning simplicity of spirit. As the narrator of her own emotions, Karydas takes a long view even while surrounded by the mess of everyday life; she longs to hit pause on the world while knowing this isnât possible â or even preferable.
Published May 27, 2021
After the conversations around the systemic injustice towards our First Nations Australians, events need to do a much better job at recognising and spotlighting our Indigenous creatives. Cut to this year’s Afterpay Australian Fashion Week which is not only being held on the same week as National Reconciliation Week but opens with the event’s first welcome to country performance by First Nations designer
Grace Lillian Lee.
“Our practices and native landscapes have served as a great source of inspiration. Our people and our land continue to contribute to the growth and development of this nation,” Lee said in a statement.