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Dance and Theatre
Previews, Interviews, and Reviews (yes, and Photos) of Dance and Theatre in Thailand (well, and elsewhere) written by "The Nation" dance and theatre critics
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Friday , November 14 , 2008
watching WORLDS COLLIDE
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 845 , 22:17:42   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008   Melbourne, October 2008  
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 Most dance and theatre audiences seem to prefer the classics to the avant garde and that’s probably why “Swan Lake” and Shakespeare plays are included in many regular season programs of dance and theatre companies around the world—and of course nothing’s wrong with that because seats need to be filled.Nevertheless, when it’s time for international arts festivals, organizers look to present some genr....


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Wednesday , October 22 , 2008
Are you ELIGIBLE for any CONCESSION?
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 864 , 01:36:03   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008   da:ns 2008, Esplanade   Melbourne, October 2008  
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 "Are you eligible for any concession?”, the box office person at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre asked me on the phone last Monday morning when I was purchasing a ticket to watch a play, whose allocation for media tickets had run out.  Admittedly, I was stunned. Usually, it’s the other way around: we audiences have to ask—or, in many cases, beg for discounts, and, in some cases, drink a certain b....


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AWED in OZ
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 832 , 00:28:51   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008   Melbourne, October 2008  
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  “Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” kicked off on Thursday, October 9 evening with a free outdoor concert at Federation Square in the middle of the city, featuring diverse Melbourne-based musicians with various cultural backgrounds, such as the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, a collective of local African, jazz, and hip hop artists; a Middle Eastern group Unified Gecko and a Middle Eastern ....


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Monday , October 13 , 2008
PATTI SMITH and MORE in MELBOURNE International Arts Festival 2008
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 794 , 20:43:00   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008   Melbourne, October 2008  
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With a wide variety of arts, ranging from dance, theatre, music, etc, the profoundly curated “Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” is making this Australia’s Garden City a contemporary arts hub and transporting us to ecstatic states of being once again, at least for 17 days. “Rather than going around the world and looking at finished works that are on the stage, in the museum, or in the galler....


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