FRINGE World is over but there’s plenty of dancing still going on for Limbo, which took out the best cabaret award, its act leaving the audience at the Elizabeth Quay pitch stunned. “Rave review after rave review could not prepare me for what was to come…it gets pretty hot in the netherworld,” one reviewer wrote…

THE brain-shaking noise you hear as you drift off road is rumblestrip, a warning to drivers they’re close to the edge. Rumblestrip the exhibition is a disturbing look at urban life in a resource-depleted future. The mixed media exhibition uses found materials, from rubbish chuck outs, building sites, skips, op-shops and salvage yards. “It’s an…

THERE’S just a week left of the Blue Room’s Summer Nights, (part of Fringe World) but it’s not too late to catch some great experimental theatre this weekend and next. Stuart Bowden…Wilting in Reverse is a strangely compelling mix of live music, vigorous dance moves, understandable words and a fair bit of profound (possibly life-changing)…

THE Perth International Arts Festival kicks off this weekend, and priding itself on making the arts accessible to all, there’s a swag of free shows and exhibitions. “From our grand opening event [Home], which turns the spotlight on all that is great about West Australia…to an opportunity to literally walk in someone else’s shoes to…

DON’T be fooled into thinking Fringe show Limbo is about wriggling under a stick. It’s an eerily whimsical battle of circus and cabaret, inspired by the realm between heaven and hell. The performers’ versatility, jumping between skills like tap dancing, contortion and — I swear — levitating, left this mortal in awe. And all this…

US soul and jazz singer Richard Jackson wasn’t born the son of a preacher man, but his father was a well-known gospel singer and he grew up surrounded by singers such as The Fairfield Four and The Dixie Hummingbirds. (The Hummingbirds inspired James Brown, who adapted the shouting style and enthusiastic showmanship of hard gospel).…

GENDER diversity, the intimate lifestyle choices of magical creatures–and the cultural significance of your child’s haircut. Pants! and Other Things is part cabaret, part folk-comedy, with plenty of glitter and sequins. It’s also the launch of Beaconsfield local Lexie McGee’s self-titled EP. Four years in the making and of the things close to her heart,…

TRAUMATISED childhoods thread together two diverse artists in Memories and Dreaming. Jacquie Penton Skipp and her sister would cower in their beds, listening as their mother was beaten by their abusive father, scared but thankful it wasn’t them this time. “He was mainly physical towards my mum,” Penton Skipp tells the Voice. Her older sister…

COMBINING UV body paint, circus, and puppetry, Luminous is the only show of its kind in the world, and it’s heading to Freo Royale this week. Luminous Creator Jessica Watson Miller says, “there isn’t a show that is the same experience” and describes it as an “immersive world” created before its audience. The show, performed…

UNDERWEAR will be abandoned, taboos broken, bodies contorted and the human psyche examined when Fringe World kicks off, January 22 to February 21. With a heap of shows from comedy to circus, theatre and the arts, at venues across the city — and a program the size of a phone book (ask your folks, kids) …