All posts tagged "OzAsia Festival 2011"
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Rhinoceros in Love – OzAsia Festival 2011
The National Theatre of China brought what has become a cult classic, to the OzAsia Festival, and it was indeed the big finish for this year. It is now in its fourth version and has played to 1.2 million people since 1999.
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Continent by CAVA – OzAsia Festival 2011
This absurdist comedy is a blend of dance, choreographed movement, physical theatre and mime, inspired by the film by the Coen brothers, Barton Fink. This was a fun, family friendly night that was over all too quickly, and definitely proved a big winner with everybody from the youngest to the oldest in the audience alike.
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2011 OzAsia Festival Highlights
The fifth annual OzAsia Festival draws to a close this weekend after two memorable weeks of unique storytelling, theatre, dance, music, visual arts, films, cultural collaborations and sharing of ideas through a wide variety of art forms. It is not too late to soak up the rich and diverse offerings of Asia and its interactions […]
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Koan – OzAsia Festival 2011
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, Natsuko Yoshimoto, has put together a concert of music, mostly written by Japanese composers, featuring Japanese shakuhachi master, Akikaza Nakamura, percussionist, Claire Edwardes, and pianist, Bernadette Harvey.
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AVCon – OzAsia Festival 2011
A mini AVCon, Anime and Video games Convention, was arranged as a part of the OzAsia Festival this year. With the focus on Japan this year, it fitted into that theme nicely.
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Cool Wise Man with Likkle Mai – OzAsia Festival 2011
After several encores, the band bringing Likkle Mai back to the stage to cheers and whistles from the audience, the applause and cries for even more continued until the house lights were turned on, before a mad rush to the foyer to buy CDs before they all went.
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Shugo Tokumaru – OzAsia Festival 2011
With so much unusual instrumentation available the performance was very varied and his appeal was obvious by the enormous applause, calls for encores, and the crowd at the CD sales desk after the show. Watch for his return.
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Shaolin Warriors – OzAsia Festival 2011
In short, the performance offers excitement, energy, enthusiasm and spectacle, with a powerful spiritual undercurrent.
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Rāga Shambhala – OzAsia Festival 2011
The title is a combination of the Indian word, raga, which means 'music that colours the mind', and the Tibetan word, Shambhala, which means 'the pure land', in Tibetan Buddhist tradition this is a mythical hidden land, what we might call Shangri La.
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Four Winds – OzAsia Festival 2011
This merging of traditional Japanese Noh performance with western and indigenous Australian influences, along with a mix of music from both Japanese and Australian cultures, resulted in an enormously varied concert.
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Dreamscape – OzAsia Festival 2011
The two pieces provided a fine evening of dance fusions and contrasts to start the OzAsia Festival for this year, with the clarity, precision and expressiveness that we have come to expect from Leigh Warren and Dancers.
