It's September and the Brisbane Festival has opened making a big hit up in the skies on Saturday night 4th September. The organizers outshone themselves with the F-111 dump and burn fire balls.
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Photo Credit: Nic Suzor
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It's the last time the old birds will be starting the fireworks show. All over the city central it was amazing.
Also, in the concert to start all concerts, Brisbane's Powerfinger gave a huge bang to the night as well. Surely a taste of what is to come in their last tour as a band.
Wow. Congratulations Brisbane you sure have grown as a City.
Now the Brisbane Festival is officially launched, there is much for everyone to see. Just to mention a few things that you may want to look at mark these ones or go have a look at the festival website. Takes my breath away there's so much happening. http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/
Saints, Clowns, Caves and Bad Seeds
Yes it's Ed Kuepper, the founder of seminal punk band The Saints. Ed is one of Australia’s most prolific, lauded and admired recording artists.
His recent performances with the reformed Saints and Laughing Clowns, as well as his overseas tour as guitarist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, saw him play to some of the biggest audiences of his career. He now appears in The Spiegeltent for his hometown crowd.
Along with Ed Kuepper, The Spiegeltent features Linda Neil (violin) and John Willsteed (lap steel guitar and banjo).
Check it out on Wednesday 15th September.
Meryl Tankard and Paul White expore human contrasts
This sensual and intense dance work by celebrated choreographer Meryl Tankard, features dancer Paul White.
Tankard and White explore the conflicting forces of nature and man, masculinity and femininity, violence and nurturing, strength and vulnerability.
Inspired by the sometimes disturbing human forms in Scandinavian artist Odd Nerdrum’s work, The Oracle is set to Stravinsky’s seminal composition for the infamous 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring, which caused riots at its Paris premiere.
The intensity of the subject, the power of the complex, rhythmic musical score and the stark and brooding aesthetic, created by visual and set designer Regis Lansac, deliver an atmosphere of coiled-spring emotions and conflict in this haunting and critically acclaimed work.
Meryl Tankard is an eminent Australian dancer and choreographer with a lengthy career, which has included dancing for the Australian Ballet and the legendary Pina Bausch. Meryl Tankard has created works for several European and USA companies and has returned to Australia to take on a number of company directorship roles before becoming a much sought-after freelance choreographer.
Paul White is one of Australia’s most impressive dance talents and won the 2008 Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer. Regis Lansac is a freelance international visual artist and set designer who has worked with Meryl Tankard for 25 years.
This performance contains nudity and adult themes. Recommended for ages 16+. Powerhouse Theatre Brisbane Wednesday 22nd to Saturday 25th September at 7.00pm.
Director Michael Gow Revisits Macbeth
QUT Festival Theatre, Brisbane Festival’s purpose built amphitheatre outside the Brisbane Powerhouse, to see this magnetic production of one of Shakespeare’s most quoted and famous plays, Macbeth.
Directed by acclaimed playwright and director Michael Gow and starring Marcus Graham and Helen Christinson, this compelling production of Macbeth will be the premier work to open the new QUT Festival Theatre. Both these performers are creating these roles for the first time for Brisbane Festival 2010.
Bring a cushion to enjoy the outdoor ambience of QUT Festival Theatre.
General admission venue with unreserved seating. 7th September to 12th September Tickets from $35.00 Booking 33588600
Robin Williams extends to a second show
For all Robin Williams fans this is great that In Brisbane a 2nd show has been announced and is on sale now:
Brisbane Entertainment Centre Friday 5 November Tickets at ricketek.com.au or phone 132 849
“Weapons of Self Destruction” is a high-energy show which highlights Williams’ trademark free associations and riffs on social and political absurdities. The show, which toured the US in 2008 and 2009, sold out venues across the country as well as in the UK and Canada and earned the comedian spectacular reviews.
Williams has more than 40 industry honours to his credit, including four Oscar® nominations and one win, two Emmy® awards, four Grammys® and six Golden Globes®, including the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award.