Sepharad
Dancer Tomas Arroquero and guitarist Kieren Ray work with Israeli born oud player, Yuval Ashkar, in a collaboration that revisits the Moorish connections with Flamenco in the inaugural performance of an exciting new project.
Café Scheherazade reviewed on Curtain Call
This review of Café Scheherazade was written by Andrew Fuhrmann on March 11 for Curtain Call. See it in its original context here.
This is a joy. It is a vast-hearted, gleeful riot of story, music, dance, wonderment and cake. It is a cosy transport from soulless metropolis to vibrant cosmopolis. It is an immersion into the twinned arts of memory and narration. It is a close encounter with profoundly mythical characters, survivors from another world, at once real and familiar to the present, but also fantastical, impossible in their courage.
Xenia Hanusiak performs at fortyfivedownstairs
On Sunday 14 February 2010 to honour Chinese New Year, Soprano Xenia Hanusiak will give the Australian Premiere of "Visages peint dans les Opéra Békin III. " This magical work composed by Beijing Conservatorium’s Head of Composition Zhang Xiao-fu specifically…