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		<title>Triptych</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jana Perkovic</dc:creator>
		
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The beautiful, enormous space of Carriageworks – probably at least half the size of the Venice Arsenale – is a good place to think about the relationship between body and space. It is a semi-reconstructed, semi-abandoned train shed, a glass and iron enclosure of large volumes of air, with narrow but tall corridors, with sprinkles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hypocrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ainsley Stokes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Molière definitely only wrote one play. Run Tartuffe and Le Malade Imaginaire side by side and the only difference is a few rosary beads on one stage and a few syringes on the other. That is not to denigrate the writing: anyone who can write 2000 rhyming alexandrine couplets and be canonised instead of flogged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Make Pancakes: Interview with Sivan Gabrielovich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jana Perkovic</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sivan Gabrielovich&#8217;s new project, opening on Wednesday 19 November at the Meat Market, a video installation titled What Do You Think About Me?, brings together members of the Israeli and the Palestinian communities for a series of discussions, workshops and interviews. It offers a rare moment of viewing these two groups&#8217; thoughts and concerns about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancenorth: Underground</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/11/15/dancenorth-underground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jana Perkovic</dc:creator>
		
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Dancenorth&#8217;s Underground, presented at the Arts House at this strange gap at the tail end of the year, when much of the theatre on offer is perfunctory and much is splendid, itself sits in this gap, being in turns yay and nay.
It opens in an underground station, looking dangerously like Shaun Parker&#8217;s This Show is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Chamber Orchestra: Euphoric Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/11/10/australian-chamber-orchestra-euphoric-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Caul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Chamber Orchestra is hardly what one might call a nest of political radicalism, but yesterday afternoon, in the refined air of Hamer Hall, Richard Tognetti and Co made an important stand of solidarity with the Australian National Academy of Music, whose funding has recently been withdrawn by the federal government. Strange to think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wackness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Caul</dc:creator>
		
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Hypothetical: if Ismail Merchant had lived for another 70 years, would he and James Ivory be making flourishing period films based on classic texts from the 1990s?
You see, the trouble with The Wackness is that it puts on the clothing of so many genre films that it ends up having the dress sense of Tori [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger for Intimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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Sometimes curation is nothing more than serendipity and sometimes serendipity bears all the hallmarks of curation. This month in Melbourne, the stars have aligned and the fortunate populous has the opportunity to see an exhibition (Intimacy) and a film (Hunger) that in their symbiosis would make a truly excellent day-night double bill.
The provenance of filmmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAF: Romeo &#38; Juliet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jana Perkovic</dc:creator>
		
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Unlike the American Gods, immigrant deities never quite make it to Australia. By the time we finally hit the shore, most of our baggage, our culture and history, traumas and myths, beliefs and feuds, have been shed, lost in transit. Even now, with air travel and the global village, this country welcomes people and events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chunky Move: I Like This</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/10/28/chunky-move-i-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Antony Hamilton and Byron Perry are two of the best male dancers Melbourne&#8217;s got. We also know that Hamilton has the skills to choreograph a dead donkey into life and Perry makes Malthouse ushers weak at the knees. The two of them have created a new work called I Like This, kicking off on November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAF: Corridor</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/10/21/miaf-corridor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spark</dc:creator>
		
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Lucy Guerin’s choreographic trademark resides in her duets. Intricate, delicate discoveries of the human form, they suggest the tremulous excitement of first encounters, or the desperate endlessness of physical searching. There is always a dynamic tension between the dancers in these moments, illustrating the possibility and importance of human connection even in times of loss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAF: An Oak Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/10/17/miaf-an-oak-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Penman</dc:creator>
		
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The bare stage of the Fairfax Studio is not a stage. It is a roadside, it is a hypnotists’ lair, it is a British pub, it is an oak tree. These are the sorts of imaginative leaps we as an audience are expected to make with each piece of theatre we see, and this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flight of the Red Balloon</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/10/01/the-flight-of-the-red-balloon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Penman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Balloon, by Albert Lamorisse, first inhabited my imagination through the guise of a black and white photo-picture book, which my family owned. The book was bigger than my head and I remember delighting in colour when the photos graduated from the despair of black and white cobbled Paris and a burst balloon to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAF: Interview with Deborah Hay</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/11/miaf-interview-with-deborah-hay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/11/miaf-interview-with-deborah-hay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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The Deborah Hay Dance Company is coming to Melbourne for the Arts Festival in October. I caught up with her from her home in Austin, Texas to discuss her career and her new show If I Sing to You.
Click here to download the podcast (5MB)
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		<title>The Lonesome West</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley Chow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This tale of two brothers – one surly and homicidal (Ben Grant), the other miserly (Luke Elliot) – is the third in Martin McDonagh&#8217;s Leenane series, set in rural Ireland.  While the English-born McDonagh has attracted controversy for his highly stylized, comic version of Irishness, it&#8217;s no surprise that actors enjoy performing his work – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAF: Interview with Tim Etchells</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/08/miaf-interview-with-tim-etchells/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/08/miaf-interview-with-tim-etchells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You feed us. You dress us. You choose clothes for us. You bathe us. You lay down the law. You sing to us. You watch us sleep.

Tim Etchells came to the Melbourne Festival with his company Forced Entertainment and their glorious big-massive-party of a production, Bloody Mess, back in 2005. This year he returns with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Games</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/05/funny-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Haneke is not a facile filmmaker, so one has to wonder why he bothered remaking his fourth feature film some ten years later with nary a change in sight. As it turns out, the reason is facile. The original Funny Games was a disturbing Teutonic take on Hollywood-style violence. But apparently not enough Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man on Wire</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/04/man-on-wire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/04/man-on-wire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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Philippe Petit is a tightrope walker and juggler, a man of stunts and tricks. He is also a man imbued with a sense of the poetic that can be spellbinding. Man on Wire is a documentary film that traces how this impish French circus artist managed to walk across a cable strung between the twin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Time is Not Yet Ripe</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/01/the-time-is-not-yet-ripe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/09/01/the-time-is-not-yet-ripe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spark</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[La Mama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Molière comes to Australia and meets a fetching merino ewe.
A debauched interlude worthy of Padre Padrone occurs.
The resulting birth, in all its comedic vim and ovine batheticness, is a play.
That play is The Time is Not Yet Ripe by Louis Esson. Written in 1912 and as strikingly funny, bright and incisive now as it must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You, The Living</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/08/26/miff-you-the-living-sweden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/08/26/miff-you-the-living-sweden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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In a wasteland of monochromatic post-industrial dullness we see fleeting moments of quiet desperation, quixotic humour and heaving torpor. It&#8217;s kind of like Samuel Beckett went to Ikea and came back with everything and a kitchen sink. The characters are beautifully realised archetypes and their stories, unravelled across intersecting vignettes, present modern maladies and ennui [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Villianelles - Melbourne Debut</title>
		<link>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/08/20/the-villianelles-melbourne-debut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vcasu.org.au/spark/2008/08/20/the-villianelles-melbourne-debut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven-piece chamber-pop outfit The Villainelles make their Melbourne debut, performing to the words of razor sharp Melbourne poets Jordie Albiston, Alison Croggon and Kathleen Mary Fallon, in a score composed by award-winning theatre and screen Composer Andrée Greenwell.
Featuring Sydney’s finest mix of noise-art, classical, indie-pop, impro and crossover musical talents, The Villainelles, reflect on ten [...]]]></description>
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