I  still can’t say the word “roots” without whisper-screaming, “ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS!” They’re lyrics from Sepultura’s 1996 album Roots, which was responsible for the vocal cord haemorrhaging of an entire generation […]

FOUR young women in a small camper van on a road trip up and down the east coast, sleeping two to a bed, surrounded by guitars drums, saxophone…and knickers. Nobody […]

AN audience of one for a hip hop or dance performance? Or a filmed interview where the interviewer is the sole audience member and the interviewee the actor. Proximity Festival […]

WA blues musician Lez Karski’s family history would make a riveting book or movie. Shortly after Germany and Russia crushed Poland and launched the Second World War, his father Tadeusz […]

THERE aren’t too many people who have upstaged Jim Carrey. But Rhys Darby’s performance in the 2008 comedy Yes Man, was the highlight of a truly underwhelming movie. The Kiwi […]

LEOTARDS, nipple pasties, and outrageous colours take centre stage in Wendy Sharpe’s Burlesque and Circus. The exhibition mixes drama, romance, a slice of life lived on the edge, and a […]

CAMIKNICKERS and nipple pasties, raunchy dancing and seductive moves—is burlesque just striptease with larger underwear or an art form? The naysayers have never seen burlesque well executed says Melanie Piantoni, […]