Located so close to the city with the ambience of being so far. Residential. Wide leafy steets. Cul-de-sacs. The Golden Triangle. Moments to Danks Street. Plentiful green space and sporting grounds. Once known as Australia’s largest industrial district. Now known as an affordable city enclave. Families. Students. Young professionals. Alexandria.
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CarriageWorks: cultural hub, dining wasteland. Seeing a show at the converted railway workshop complex has hitherto involved rooting around in Newtown for snacks first. But now there’s this new canteen, smack bang in the middle of the action. It’s brought to you by A-grade caterers John and Peter. The whole heart of their business is quality ingredients, dealt with simply. Their catch cry is “simple, foam free, soil free, skid mark and spittle free”. And that’s what you’ll find at the...
2012-04-19 12:00:00 - 2012-05-26 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Copper Promises: Victoria Hunt
Movement artist Victoria Hunt presents a solo performance that explores the cultural and physical journey of Hinemih (meeting house in Maori). The Maori belief that Hinemihi has living qualities based on one’s ancestral origin is reflected in Hunt’s dance work, which involves a portrayal of a female ancestor, a meeting house and a ceremonial space.
EnTrance: Yumi Umimare
Yumi Umimare is the only Japanes Butoh dancer in Australia. Merged...
2012-08-01 12:00:00 - 2012-08-04 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Show On presents a season of performance from across Australia that focuses on audience participation and the intersection of art, life and popular culture.
The Democratic Set: Back to Back Theatre
Created in collaboration with local communities, this participatory film brings a visual soapbox to town: a sixteen second timeframe and the grand theme of democracy and equality.
Rramp: Christine Johnston, Lisa O’Neill & Peter Nelson
Rramp is an eclectic mix of...
2012-08-22 12:00:00 - 2012-09-01 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
In 2009, a 14-year-old girl was given an on-air lie detector test on a live Sydney radio program. When pressed for information, the girl shockingly admitted that she was previously raped, generating a storm of controversy and discussion in the Australian media. This infamous incident serves as the source of The Tender Age’s themes of sexuality, young people, relationships and technology. Performed with an ensemble of professional artists and young performers, this is an...
2012-09-11 12:00:00 - 2012-09-15 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Two performances by renowned choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dance ensemble, Rosas, make their way to Sydney.
En Atendant explores mortality and physicality through a combination of music and dance, drawing inspiration from ars subtilior, as well as a polyphonic dance style that emerged from the fourteenth century plague.
Considered as a counterpart to En Atendant, Cesena was choreographed in collaboration with musical director Björn Schmelzer...
2012-06-27 12:00:00 - 2012-09-16 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens harnesses the effects of light, artificial fog, projections and sound to create an installation where audiences can experience the ungraspable. Her immersive environments invite viewers to question the relationship between time and space and cross into new sensory spaces....
2012-09-13 12:00:00 - 2012-09-22 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Eleven distinct characters inhabit the world of Fearless, with each character flinching at a certain point in their lives. It is that moment of flinching that unexpectedly hurls the characters’ lives off its normal path into an emotional abyss. Fearless begins at this juncture, where redemption, recovery, release or relapse is but an inch from each person’s grasp. Distilled by composer Daryl Wallis, chanteuse Christa Hughes and playwright Mirra Todd with heart and...
2012-09-24 12:00:00 - 2012-10-04 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Australian artist Justene Williams constructs elaborate sets and costumes that she performs on and in before they are destroyed. The documentation of these actions is then exhibited in the gallery space, producing a collision of performance, installation, photography, video and sound.
Nikhil Chopra is a Mumbai-based artist who devises fictional characters inspired by India’s colonial history and the artist’s personal history. Chopra inhabits these characters in...
2012-10-06 12:00:00 - 2012-10-07 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Platform Hip Hop returns in 2012, bringing together the best breakers, MCs, DJs and graffiti artists in a two day celebration of competition, culture and community. This includes panel discussions and workshops, dance battles and a night of Australian hip hop music....
2012-11-03 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
A triptych of three short dance films on the human need for intimacy, connection and games. This screening also features a live performance by Lorcan Hooper and Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, who both starred in the award-winning film Moth. Enjoyment continues with a panel discussion led by Dr Erin Brannigan, as well as a professional development workshop with filmmaker Sophie Hyde and Artistic Director, Philip Channells.
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2012-11-10 12:00:00
Carriageworks 245 Wilson St
Redfern Station is an inaugural live performance that features a lineup of top Aboriginal contemporary musicians from across Australia. Headlining the event this year are The Medics, a band whose sense of urgency in their music has underpinned their emergence as one of Australia’s new talents. Also featured is Microwave Jenny, behind which Aboriginal duo Tessa Nuku and Brendon Boney are determined to bring authentic pop music back into the Australian musical landscape....