Issue# 36.04 | July 7–13, 2021 Editor: Eve Jeffery | Editorial/gigs: gigs@echo.net.au Copy deadline: 5pm each Friday | Advertising: adcopy@echo.net.au P: 02 6684 1777 | W: echo.net.au/entertainment
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How to use Humour to shift the narrative! With Dr George Catsi & Mandy Nolan A Comedy Masterclass In Funny Business Where You Learn To Laugh At Your Own Expense
TIX $59 0 EARLY BIRD 17 JUN E 2021 FULL F EE $650
DATES: 17–18 JULY SAT: 9DP–5SP SUN: 9DP–2SP
CHEEKY FROM BRUNS TO LISMORE From the creative team behind the award-winning, internationally acclaimed circus/cabaret sensations La Soirée and Club Swizzle, with over eight million tickets sold worldwide, comes Cheeky, Brunswick Picture House’s smash-hit signature show. With three years of sold-out performances at its much-loved home in Bruns, Cheeky is circus like you’ve never seen before. This genre-bending cabaret is cheeky, clever, and damn sexy, celebrating the weird, the wonderful, and the wildly entertaining, leaving audiences gasping for more! Featuring a cavalcade of the world’s most talented acts in circus, burlesque, music, and new variety, Cheeky’s bold and brash reputation has rippled up and down the coast. Now, Lismore, Cheeky is coming for you! Friday 16 and Saturday 17 July – 7.30pm Lismore City Hall. Tickets $20–59. www./norpa.org.au
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FRI 16 & SAT 17 JUL TICKETS:
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Lismore City Hall Bar & Diner from 6pm
Hosted at the Mullum Showground over September 20–26, the National Circus Festival boasts a dual program with two distinct streams, including a four-day National Training Program September 20–23, while the weekend of September 24–26 sees the public program go into full swing. Leading the program announcement is Collision from two Brisbane powerhouse companies in Casus Circus and Mad Dance House, A B-boy. Hip-hop and Hula Hooper, Pop and Lock, a cross-pollination of contemporary circus and street dance are also on board. The powerful cross point of visual art and circus is Jack Silvestro’s new work December – a captivating solo physical theatre performance marking Australia’s history and honouring those affected by 2020’s Black Summer. International hula hoop artist Anna Fisher, and some of Byron Shire’s brightest stars from the world-famous bubble man, circus and sideshow artist, Dr Hubble, to Spaghetti graduate success story Hannah Richards are other highlights and Spaghetti Circus’s new troupe show: Bails of Hey! Tumble on over the National Circus Festival website for more info: the nationalcircusfestival.com.
BE MOVED AND INSPIRED BY BANDALUZIA The award winning flamenco ensemble Bandaluzia will be performing in Byron next month. Led by ARIA-nominated flamenco guitarist Damian Wright, Bandaluzia are presenting a spectacular new show that highlights contemporary flamenco dance and music while keeping the essential characteristics of the flamenco tradition. Bandaluzia are celebrated for their powerful performances, unique sound, and explosive displays of dazzling musicianship and virtuosity. Wrights says that flamenco is an art form that is immediate in its impact. ‘A flamenco artist traditionally would approach the music as more of a visceral as opposed to an intellectual expression. Flamenco’s expression explores the full spectrum of human experience, from the darker sides to the most joyous and translates this into something cathartic and beautiful.’ Wright says that the relationship between the music, the musicians and the dancers is one of flamenco’s unique and most attractive elements. ‘The flamenco musician needs to understand the language of the dance and the singing and vice versa. Each artist needs to speak the musical language of flamenco fluently enough to have the freedom and spontaneity to create the flamenco atmosphere required for an authentically flamenco performance. The dancer, musician, and singer all have moments where they are leading the performance in their particular way and then will take it in turns to accompany the other. It’s a constant conversation throughout the performance which keeps the show alive.’ Joining Damian are the award-winning Bandaluzia dancers Rosalie Cocchiaro and Jessica Statham, who between them have 15 years of studying and performing in Spain. On percussion James Hauptmann, one of Australia’s most soughtafter jazz and contemporary music drummers, is the spine of the show rhythmically. Rounding out the group on violin is Yuhki Mayne, whose performances have taken him from Opera Australia to the neo-soul of Ngaire. In Bandaluzia shows the artists are referencing the rhythms and forms of flamenco as well as flamenco masters. ‘It’s important to us to always evolve ourselves artistically with respect to the tradition and to the greats who have made the art form what it is. The contemporary aspects come naturally as we are all from a generation that has grown up with access to a wide variety of influences from jazz, classical, rock, soul, Arabic, to latin and more, as well as contemporary dance, and we will often reference these influences in a way that is organic and enhances our performance and makes it personal and unique.’ For the audience flamenco is more than listening to music and dance. ‘It’s the feeling of sharing the experience, receiving the artists’ expression and connecting this to their own experiences. If performed well flamenco can be a transcending moment for all.’ Bandaluzia can be seen at the Byron Theatre on 27 August. Tickets can be found at: byron.sales.ticketsearch.com/ sales/salesevent/11499.
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