Passion dies in the weak gunshot ending – The Australian
Passion dies in the weak gunshot ending The Australian DANCE: Carmen. Choreography by Francois Klaus. Queensland Ballet. Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, May 28. FRANCOIS Klaus's full-length version of Carmen follows the traditional tale of the gypsy Carmen and her fate in a ... |
Shanghai Lady Killer
Title: Shanghai Lady Killer
Location: Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane
Description: Brisbane Festival 2010 presents – Shanghai Lady Killer
Brisbane audiences will be the first to view the on-stage spectacular that is Shanghai Lady Killer when the show makes its international debut at QPAC during Brisbane Festival 2010. This fantastic new work will be on stage at the Playhouse from Thursday 23 September to Saturday 25 September.
Imagine the characters from a classic film noir flawed private eye, femme fatale and underground crime lord meet the superhuman heroines of a Hong Kong Wuxia sword-fighting spectacular. Featuring Wang Fei, one of China’s leading martial arts film stars in the lead role of Lili, this production is set to impress.
The action is set in Chinatown of a futuristic Australian city. Bring in multi-media landscapes, acrobatics, parkour, trampoline, dance, circus and martial arts, and you get a mental picture of the visual spectacle that is Shanghai Lady Killer.
The plot follows an Australian detective, hired to track down a mysterious female Chinese assassin. Her mission is to kill the Mayor, a successful and popular migrant from Shanghai who is in the midst of his re-election campaign. A dark secret looms over the action, threatening to tear the city apart.
Popularised by the Shaw Brothers studios in the 1960s and revisited in Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – the Wuxia genre is the primary inspiration for this contemporary Australian stage production.
Start Date: 2010-09-23
Start Time: 20:00
End Date: 2010-09-25
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Title: Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Location: Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane
Description: Brisbane Festival 2010 is proud to announce that Cuba’s famed Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, long recognised as one of the world’s most groundbreaking modern dance companies, will perform their only Australian shows at QPAC from Tuesday 14th Saturday 18th September exclusively for Brisbane Festival 2010.
Renowned for its dancers’ fluidity, fire and sheer physical artistry, the company has devised a new language of dance, a pungent blend of Afro-Caribbean expression, classical European ballet and American modernism.
Audiences will experience the passion and revolutionary brilliance of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba through two ninety-minute programs, each featuring three dance works.
Demo-N/Crazy is the spectacular opening work in both programmes this physically and emotionally intense, free and fevered exploration of the human psyche comes from revered choreographer Rafael Bonchela.
The second spectacular work in the first programme is choreographer Kenneth Kvamstrom’s clever contemporary interpretation of Carmen, featuring Bizet’s beautiful music and a selection from Russian composer Rodion Schendrin.
The alternative to Carmen for the second programme is the extravagant Folia. Inspiration for this contemporary work by Jan Linkens is drawn from carnival rhythms and the concept of Folia the most ancient of musical themes or melodies in different cultures.
Both programmes finish with the cutting edge Mambo 3XXI from George Céspedes. With a soundtrack combining the music of Cuban bandleader and composer Perez Prado with seventies disco, techno, trip-hop and ambient, Mambo 3XXI adds a flourish of 21st century street attitude to the best of Cuban dance.
Start Date: 2010-09-14
Start Time: 20:00
End Date: 2010-09-18
Sutra
Title: Sutra
Location: Playhouse, QPAC, Brisbane
Description: Brisbane Festival 2010 Presents – Sutra
Sidi Larbi Cherkauoi’s breathtaking contemporary movement piece, Sutra, will be showcased at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from September 8 to September 11 as part of Brisbane Festival 2010.
Combining faith, imagination and stunning acrobatics, this awe-inspiring spiritual exploration is based on the rituals and traditions of Buddhist Shaolin monks.
With a stark, evolving stage design of simple wooden boxes, manipulated with athletic and artistic perfection by 17 Warrior Monks of the Shaolin Temple alongside Cherkaoui, Sutra is visually both striking and serene.
Cherkaoui is a leading light of European choreography and dance, creating productions that are storybooks in motion, using dance as a language which combines the best of diverse styles and traditions to form a surprising new whole.
Since its first sell-out London performance at Sadler’s Wells in May 2008, Sutra has received worldwide acclaim from audiences and critics alike.
Don’t miss the chance to experience this physical and spiritual phenomenon for yourself during Brisbane Festival 2010.
Start Date: 2010-09-08
Start Time: 20:00:00
End Date: 2010-09-11
End Time: 21:00:00