We saw one of the coolest performances I have ever seen tonight with our good friends Sarah and Dave, on their suggestion.
It was called Paradise City playing at the Carriageworks (in between Newtown and Redfern) which is possibly the funkiest performance space I have ever visited, the building is just amazing. The call of the night was your resident genius here looking at the building and saying to Sarah "You know I wonder if they call this place the carriageworks because it used to be a carriageworks?"
It's hard to describe the show, here's the blurb which didn't mean a lot beforehands, but having seen it, it's much better than any descritpion I could come up with:
In a spectacular hybrid of urban street-style meets dance, a skater, a break-dancer, a BMX rider, an acrobat, a dancer and a singer converge in a stark urban space. Wheels trace arcs across the stage. A dancing woman watches. A BMX rider dances from pedal to peg and up on one wheel, his bike spinning around his body. The diva voices the bodies to a live score spanning Bach, filmic soundscapes and driving beats, as the performers begin to interact, to mimic and borrow and steal - and to shape the urban world they inhabit.
There was also an incredible one-room contemporary art exhibition we checked out after the show, which was better than most of the stuff I've seen at the MCA over the past few years, we loved it.
Definitely go see something here if you get the chance, I will be keeping my eye on any new performances here for sure.
Then afterwards we wandered up to Newtown for dinner at the Green Gourmet to round out a fun evening with Sarah and Dave and our last meal of Vegan May. Hooray for a fun Saturday night!
It was called Paradise City playing at the Carriageworks (in between Newtown and Redfern) which is possibly the funkiest performance space I have ever visited, the building is just amazing. The call of the night was your resident genius here looking at the building and saying to Sarah "You know I wonder if they call this place the carriageworks because it used to be a carriageworks?"
It's hard to describe the show, here's the blurb which didn't mean a lot beforehands, but having seen it, it's much better than any descritpion I could come up with:
In a spectacular hybrid of urban street-style meets dance, a skater, a break-dancer, a BMX rider, an acrobat, a dancer and a singer converge in a stark urban space. Wheels trace arcs across the stage. A dancing woman watches. A BMX rider dances from pedal to peg and up on one wheel, his bike spinning around his body. The diva voices the bodies to a live score spanning Bach, filmic soundscapes and driving beats, as the performers begin to interact, to mimic and borrow and steal - and to shape the urban world they inhabit.
There was also an incredible one-room contemporary art exhibition we checked out after the show, which was better than most of the stuff I've seen at the MCA over the past few years, we loved it.
Definitely go see something here if you get the chance, I will be keeping my eye on any new performances here for sure.
Then afterwards we wandered up to Newtown for dinner at the Green Gourmet to round out a fun evening with Sarah and Dave and our last meal of Vegan May. Hooray for a fun Saturday night!
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