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Melbourne is ’s most culturally Saturday 28 May vibrant city and all year round audiences can experience an incredible diversity of live 13:00 – 15:00 The Pearlfishers Arts Centre performances. 13:00 – 15:45 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse Whilst you are in Melbourne for the 98th ISPA A Belvoir production at Congress, REIMAGINING, we encourage you 14:00 – 15:40 Brahms’ Fourth Symphony to see as much as you can – you never know Melbourne Symphony Orchestra what gem you might discover. 16:00 – 17:15 Heart is Racing The Letter String Quartet The following list of events captures some 16:00 – 17:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne performances that are happening over Melbourne Theatre Company the week of the Congress. From work-in- 18:00 – 21:30 Pasifika Showcase Eastbank Centre, Shepparton development showings to parties, meet-and- Multicultural Arts greets to world-class theatre, it certainly 19:00 – 20:15 Heart is Racing Melbourne Recital Centre gives you a snapshot of live performance in The Letter String Quartet our vibrant and inspiring city. 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio To find out more about any of the events Chunky Move or companies, speak to the team at the 19:30 – 21:45 La Bohème Arts Centre Melbourne Congress Registration and Information desk Opera Australia throughout the week. 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Sydney Dance Company 20:30 – 22:00 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company

Monday 30 May

18:00 – 19:00 Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black Melbourne Recital Centre

18:30 – 20:00 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company 20:00 – 21:45 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Cover image from Chunky Move’s AORTA (2013) 2Photo: Jeff Busby All information is correct at the time of publication. 1 Tuesday 31 May Wednesday 1 June

18:00 – 19:10 Rhapsody Melbourne Recital Centre 10:00 – 11:10 en route Outside Melbourne Central Southern Cross Soloists one step at a time like this 18:30 – 20:00 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne 10:30 – 12:05 Back at the Dojo Arena Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company Stuck Pigs Squealing/Belvoir Theatre rehearsal room 18:30 – 21:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse 10:30 – 12:30 Weekly Ticket: the artist at the station Footscray Train Station A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey 19:00 – 20:00 Out of Earshot (development showing) Abbotsford Convent Art Projects KAGE 12:15 – 13:25 en route Outside Melbourne Central 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio one step at a time like this Chunky Move 18:30 – 20:15 The Magic Hour La Mama Courthouse 19:30 – 20:40 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company Cameron Lukey Presents 19:00 – 20:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre ILBIJERRI Theatre Company Sydney Dance Company 19:00 – 21:00 For Heaven’s Sake City Square 20:00 – 21:45 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne Born in a Taxi Melbourne Theatre Company 19:30 – 20:30 A Taste of Circus Oz & TWENTYSIXTEEN Circus Oz Collingwood Circus Oz 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio Chunky Move 19:30 – 20:40 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain fortyfivedownstairs Cameron Lukey Presents 19:30 – 21:30 Gasworks Circus Showdown Gasworks Arts Park Various Artists 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 19:30 – 20:30 Three Short Works La Mama Lloyd Jones 20:00 – 21:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre Sydney Dance Company 20:00 – 21:45 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company

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17:00 – 19:15 Opening Ceremony The Light In Winter 18:00 – 18:45 Lucy Guerin Inc: Meet and Greet The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Lucy Guerin Inc Room 19:00 – 20:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House ILBIJERRI Theatre Company 19:00 – 19:45 Confusion for Three The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Jo Lloyd Room 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio Chunky Move 19:00 – 20:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House ILBIJERRI Theatre Company 19:30 – 20:40 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain fortyfivedownstairs Cameron Lukey Presents 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio Chunky Move 19:30 – 21:15 The Magic Hour La Mama Courthouse Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company 19:30 – 20:30 Three Short Works La Mama Lloyd Jones 19:30 – 21:30 Gasworks Circus Showdown Gasworks Arts Park Various Artists 19:30 – 20:40 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain fortyfivedownstairs Cameron Lukey Presents 19:30 – 20:30 Three Short Works La Mama Lloyd Jones 19:30 – 20:45 Confrontations: PBS Young Elder of Jazz Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Melbourne International Jazz Festival 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 19:30 – 21:15 The Magic Hour La Mama Courthouse Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company 20:00 – 21:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company 19:30 – 21:30 Things NOT of this EARTH NICA National Circus Centre Circus Showcase 2016: Dress Rehearsal 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre Sydney Dance Company 19:30 – 21:40 Gary Bartz Quartet (USA) Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne International Jazz Festival 20:00 – 21:45 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 20:30 – 21:40 MIRA FUCHS Arts House Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement 20:00 – 21:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Theatre Company 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre Sydney Dance Company 20:00 – 21:50 Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 20:30 – 21:40 MIRA FUCHS Arts House Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement 20:30 – 22:00 Edmund. The Beginning Arts House Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions 20:30 – 00:00 Arts House Party Arts House

23:00 – late Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Melbourne International Jazz Festival

4 5 Saturday 4 June 20:30 – 21:40 MIRA FUCHS Arts House 13:00 – 15:45 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse Melanie Jame Wolfe/Savage Amusement A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 20:30 – 22:00 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne 13:30 – 14:40 en route Outside Melbourne Central Melbourne Theatre Company one step at a time like this 20:30 – 22:15 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne 14:00 – 15:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House Melbourne Theatre Company ILBIJERRI Theatre Company 21:30 – 22:45 Lionel Loueke + the Vampires Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 14:00 – 15:10 The Walking Neighbourhood Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne International Jazz Festival Lenine Burke 23:00 – late Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 14:00 – 15:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre Melbourne International Jazz Festival Sydney Dance Company Sunday 5 June 15:30 – 17:00 Edmund. The Beginning Arts House Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions 10:00 – 11:10 The Walking Neighbourhood Arts Centre Melbourne 15:45 – 16:55 en route Outside Melbourne Central Lenine Burke one step at a time like this 14:00 – 15:10 The Walking Neighbourhood Arts Centre Melbourne 16:00 – 17:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne Lenine Burke Melbourne Theatre Company 15:00 – 16:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House 16:00 – 17:45 Double Indemnity Arts Centre Melbourne ILBIJERRI Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company 15:00 – 17:00 Jazz High Tea – Chelsea Wilson Arts Centre Melbourne 17:30 – 18:40 MIRA FUCHS Arts House Arts Centre Melbourne Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement 16:00 – 17:45 The Magic Hour La Mama Courthouse 19:00 – 20:00 Blood on the Dance Floor Arts House Cicero’s Circle Theatre ILBIJERRI Theatre Company 17:00 – 18:00 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio 19:00 – 20:15 Lionel Loueke + the Vampires Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Chunky Move Melbourne International Jazz Festival 17:00 – 19:45 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre Chunky Move 17:30 –18:40 MIRA FUCHS Arts House 19:30 – 20:30 Three Short Works La Mama Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement Lloyd Jones 18:00 – 19:10 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain fortyfivedownstairs 19:30 – 20:40 Resident Alien by Tim Fountain fortyfivedownstairs Cameron Lukey Presents Cameron Lukey Presents 19:30 – 20:30 Three Short Works La Mama 19:30 – 21:15 The Magic Hour La Mama Courthouse Lloyd Jones Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company 23:00 – late Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 19:30 – 21:30 Gasworks Circus Showdown Gasworks Arts Park Melbourne International Jazz Festival Various Artists 19:30 – 21:40 Robert Glasper Trio Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne International Jazz Festival 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre 20:00 – 21:30 CounterMove Southbank Theatre Sydney Dance Company 20:00 – 21:50 Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

6 7 EVENTS Back at the Dojo Stuck Pigs Squealing and Belvoir Theatre Arena Theatre Company Rehearsal Room: 130 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne A Taste of Circus Oz and TWENTYSIXTEEN Theatre: New work, contemporary text based Circus Oz THEATRE 1 June | 10:30am | 95 minutes Circus Oz: 50 Perry Street, Collingwood Booking Details: Reservation required – email Nina Bonacci [email protected]. CIRCUS Circus and meet and greet new Artistic Director, Rob Tannion Getting There: train to North Melbourne Station or taxi. 1 June | 7:30pm | 60 minutes www.belvoir.com.au/productions/back-at-the-dojo Booking Details: email Teena Munn [email protected] for transport From the utterly marvellous mind of Lally Katz comes a modern romance about wanderlust, and catering purposes. love and karate. Lally has spent the past decade turning her life into a series of hilarious and theatrically gorgeous plays. This time it’s her parents’ turn. Getting There: a bus will depart from Arts Centre Melbourne at 6:45pm and return post event. After nearly losing his mind in the abandon of 1960s America, young Danny (who happens to www.circusoz.com share a name with Lally’s father) finds his way again with the help of an enigmatic sensei. At a New Jersey karate dojo, he and other mislaid souls make their way back into the world, and Danny bumps into a woman called Lois… Meanwhile, in present-day Australia, Danny’s long-lost Come meet our new Artistic Director, internationally acclaimed Rob Tannion, see our almost grandson has decided to become Patti Smith… brand-new home, watch an excerpt from our upcoming big top show, TWENTYSIXTEEN Inspired by the true events that brought Dan and Lois Katz together, Back at the Dojo features (opening 15 June) and share some drinks and nibbles with us afterwards. a Hogarthian parade of characters, two real-life karate masters, and the incomparable Luke TWENTYSIXTEEN is a refreshing cocktail of new and old, innovation and tradition. Our turbo- Mullins (Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie). Belvoir joins forces with legendary Melbourne charged acrobats will be bringing amazing new skill and wizardry to the flying trapeze, the company Stuck Pigs Squealing for this ravishing, nourishing story about the myths families Chinese pole and unicycle adagio, as well as a brand new group-juggling act, and so much live by. more. With two hours of high-voltage acrobatics and explosive aerial antics all accompanied by the Blood on the Dance Floor sensational Circus Oz band, TWENTYSIXTEEN is classic Circus Oz: absurd Australian larrikins ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme pushing the boundaries of possibility and defying the laws of physics. Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Interdisciplinary: Theatre, projection, text and choreography Arts House Party 1 – 5 June | Wednesday – Saturday 7pm, Saturday 2pm, Sunday 3pm | 60 minutes Booking Details: Tickets available through www.artshouse.com.au – use ISPA code when Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne booking for discount. Tickets can also be purchased on the door subject to availability. Arts

PARTY Party House box office opens one hour before the show. 3 June | 8:30pm | 210 minutes Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth St to stop #12. Booking Details: a free event for ISPA delegates. RSVP encouraged – I nterdisciplinary www.artshouse.com.au [email protected]. Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth Street to stop #12. www.artshouse.com.au Blood on the Dance Floor explores the legacies and memories of our bloodlines, our need for community and what blood means to each of us, questioning how this most precious fluid unites and divides us. Join Melbourne’s independent artists and the team at Arts House for a not-to-be-missed party A choreographer, dancer and writer from the Narangga and Kaurna nations of South Australia, during this year’s ISPA Congress. We’ll provide the food, drinks and DJs, so all you need to do is Jacob Boehme was diagnosed with HIV in 1998. In search of answers, he reached out to his turn up and wear your best pair of dancing shoes. ancestors. Through a powerful blend of theatre, image, text and choreography, Jacob pays Attend one of the performances that are on at Arts House before the party, stay for a drink and homage to their ceremonies whilst dissecting the politics of gay, Blak and poz identities. kick on into the night. We look forward to having you as our guest. Blood on the Dance Floor is an unapologetic, passionate and visceral narrative that traverses time, space and characters. A story of our need to love and be loved, Jacob’s striking monologue reveals our secret identities and our deepest fears, seeking to invoke ancestral lineage in a contemporary quest for courage and hope.

8 9 Brahms’ Fourth Symphony Confusion for Three Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Jo Lloyd Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Room: 113 Sturt Street, Southbank MUSIC Music: Classical dance Dance: Contemporary 28 May | 2pm | 100 minutes 3 June | 7pm | 45 minutes Booking Details: Booking details: Free event for ISPA delegates. To book email [email protected] www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2016-season/brahms-fourth-symphony by 2 June at 5pm. Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to www.mso.com.au stop #18. www.jolloyd.com Independent Choreographer Jo Lloyd (current Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc) will The young Dresden-born conductor Christoph König directs this intriguing program of Ravel, introduce and show an excerpt of her recent work, Confusion For Three, which premiered at Bartók and Brahms. Arts House in August 2015. Jo’s work explores choreography as a social encounter, revealing Maurice Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin is an homage to the composer’s courtly forebear, behaviour over specific durations, under particular circumstances. François Couperin. Originally a six-movement suite for piano, Le tombeau is more frequently Hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling heard in its orchestrated version, completed (minus two movements) in 1919. system of choreography. Navigating their physical histories, both recent and distant – from Bela Bartók’s Viola Concerto (1945) was among his last pieces, but existed only in sketch form. traces of folk dance to idiosyncratic body rhythms – the performers reveal a series of desperate When asked if this was his Viola Concerto, the dying composer said, ‘Yes and no’. Completed encounters, in a destabilising flood of movement. The questions remain: can this confusion be by one of Bartók’s colleagues, the work was given its world premiere in 1949, played by its sustained, and where does it lead us? commissioner, violist William Primrose. Years later, Primrose recalled, ‘I paid [Bartók] what he asked — $1,000 — and I played the concerto well over 100 times for fairly respectable fees. So it was almost like getting in on the ground floor in investing in Xerox or the Polaroid camera.’ CounterMove Sydney Dance Company

ance Southbank Theatre: The Sumner Confrontations: PBS Young Elder of Jazz Contemporary Dance Melbourne International Jazz Festival 25 May - 4 June | Tuesday – Saturday 8:00pm, Saturday 2:00pm | 90 minutes Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne Booking Details: save 20% off tickets when you quote SDCEXCLUSIVE

MUSIC Music: Jazz online or via 03 8688 0800 www.mtc.com.au/countermove. 3 June | 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm) | 75 minutes Getting There: walk or #1 tram. Booking Details: www.sydneydancecompany.com www.melbournejazz.com/program/confrontations-pbs-young-elder-of-jazz

Getting There: train to Melbourne Central Station, walk, or any Swanston Street tram. melbournejazz.com D Sydney Dance Company opens 2016 with CounterMove — an exhilarating double bill that will intrigue, move and entertain you. Alexander Ekman’s Cacti is a brilliantly conceived, laugh-out- Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required at Bennetts Lane loud funny piece that dares to poke fun at contemporary dance. Featuring a string quartet live Jazz Club (please call +61 (0)3 9663 2856). on stage, Ekman’s witty and energetic choreography makes its Melbourne debut having left a World premiere of the 2016 PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission. Multi-award winning pianist global trail of rapturous reviews. While Rafael Bonachela’s world premiere, Lux Tenebris explores and composer Joe O’Connor has created Confrontations, a stunning set of six dialogues light and darkness with fiercely physical movement and deep, electronic beats by composer exploring conflict and multiplicity in improvisation. Inspired by and performed in collaboration Nick Wales (long-term collaborator of Sarah Blasko). with Australian jazz luminary Scott Tinkler, Confrontations balances tonal and non-tonal harmony, regular and irregular rhythm, delicate lyricism and impressive density. The PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission is generously supported by Mark Newman.

10 11 Double Indemnity en route Melbourne Theatre Company one step at a time like this Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Melbourne CBD: Starting location outside Melbourne Central Station Theatre: Period thriller Experimental: Extended notion of theatre THEATRE 30 May – 4 June | Monday – Thursady 8pm, Saturday 4pm and 8:30pm | 105 minutes 1 and 4 June | Wednesday 10am and 12:15pm, Saturday 1:30pm and 3:45pm | Booking Details: book online at mtc.com.au using booking code ISPAMTC or call the 70 minutes

MTC box office direct on +61 (0)3 8688 0800. Tickets also available at the door, subject xperimental Booking details: please email [email protected] to secure your booking. E to availability. Getting There: details will be provided when booking. Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. www.onestepatatimelikethis.com/enroute.html www.mtc.com.au/doubleindemnity en route is a multi-award-winning pedestrian-based theatre experience. It is also a place- making project that utilises audio, mobile phone communication, urban streetscapes, walking,

passers-by and cafés. Each production is uniquely created for the city space that it inhabits, One of the greatest crime novels of our times is given a brilliant stage adaptation by Tom with its own soundtrack drawn from local musicians. Holloway with direction by Sam Strong. Insurance agent Walter Huff has nosed around the business long enough to smell a scam, so when he meets Phyllis Nirdlinger to talk about her en route has enjoyed sell-out seasons in Chicago (Chicago Tribune Top Ten Shows of 2011), husband’s insurance coverage he gets a perfumed whiff of trouble. But she has a persuasive (2012 Cultural Olympiad commission) and five Australian cities (Winner of Adelaide way of putting things. Can’t a wife fix a little security for herself? After all, a beloved husband Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production and two ), Edinburgh (Traverse can suffer a fatal accident just as easily as an honest guy can fall hard for a dame who’s Theatre), Seoul (translated version) and New Zealand. no good. The LA sunshine throws plenty of dark shadows in James M Cain’s sensational en route is also a love song to a city. Part traveller, witness and voyeur, the audience- thriller novels of the thirties and forties, of which this steamy tale of murder and desire is the participants are able to view a world in the process of making itself – en route – emerging, undoubted masterpiece. dissolving, as perceptions, insights, senses, make and remake the city they inhabit. With en route you’re seeing the city as if for the first time.

Edmund. The Beginning Brian Lipson/Antechamber Productions For Heaven’s Sake Born in a Taxi Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Theatre: New work, solo City Square: 44–86 Swanston Street, Melbourne THEATRE 3 and 4 June | Friday 8:30pm, Saturday 3:30pm | 90 minutes Experimental: New work created for outdoor public spaces. Non-verbal with playful Booking Details: This is a free event for ISPA members. Tickets available through audience participation. http://bit.do/edmund2, use booking code ISPA when booking or email 1 June | 7pm | 120 minutes

[email protected] to book your tickets. xperimental Booking Details: Free outdoor event. No bookings required. E Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth St to stop #12. Getting There: walk or any tram down Swanston Street/St Kilda Road. www.artshouse.com.au www.borninataxi.com.au

Edmund. The Beginning is both an exercise in distorted biography and a confessional torrent. Set inside a transparent CUBE, For Heaven’s Sake is a playful, participatory outdoor Brian Lipson summons a disordered array of characters from the impatient past and the performance. Stunningly visual, beautifully poetic and often absurd, For Heaven’s Sake connects murky present: some are familiar, some are famous, some are known only to Brian. None are community in the spirit of play. comfortable. Fifteen years ago Brian Lipson’s acclaimed solo show, A Large Attendance in the Trapped in the “Institute of Heaven” three Angels go about their business sending messages Antechamber, won two Green Room Awards before touring the world for the next seven years. between the divine and the mortal. An apparition of compassionate souls, the mysterious Brian is now considerably older and considerably less wise, but he can still talk very fast. unveiled. Mortals can observe from afar, come for a blessing or cross over briefly into the Edmund. The Beginning is even more complex than its predecessor, and each of its many heavenly realm! From within the illuminated walls of Nirvana, the Angels conduct a series of characters is both a real person and an imaginary figure. But who imagines whom? Who is events designed to unify an audience of strangers – from the genesis of an audience Deity, to a whom? Who is alive? Who is dead? And why? Mass Baptism, to a spontaneous collective dance. The work swings between the profound, the In Edmund. The Beginning, literary giants, sirens, reprobates and infants cavort in existential kitsch and the joyful. quadrille. A few you will recognise, others you won’t. For Heaven’s Sake is an opportunity to slow down, take a breath and reflect on how we engage with each other and what is sacred.

12 13 Gary Bartz Quartet (USA) Heart is Racing Melbourne International Jazz Festival Opening Night The Letter String Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne music music Music: Jazz Music: Contemporary Classical 3 June | 7.30pm | 130 minutes 28 May | 4pm and 7pm | 75 minutes Booking Details: Booking Details: melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/heart-is-racing. Tickets also www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/gary-bartz-quartet-usa available at the door. Tickets also available at the door. Getting There: walk or #1 tram. Getting There: walk or #1 tram. www.melbournerecital.com.au www.melbournerecital.com.au

‘Songwriters strike a chord with string quartet.’ An unmissable Opening Night event honouring an icon of jazz. The Letter String Quartet launches its 2016 concert series with Heart Is Racing, an exciting Having not only witnessed but helped create jazz as we know it today, Gary Bartz has been at amalgamation of the musical musings of two continents. the forefront of jazz for nearly six decades. With a career ranging across post-bop, jazz-funk Central to the performance will be the world premiere of Australian/American composer and free jazz, Bartz is counted amongst the pantheon of jazz greats, having shared the stage Wally Gunn’s latest string quartet commissioned by The Letter String Quartet, Blood, an aural with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and mapping of the circulatory system of the body. many more. Renowned for his legendary, non-stop live performances, Bartz’s compelling blend Also featuring the works of renown American composers Erik DeLuca and Caroline Shaw of earthiness and elegance infuses decades of experience into every note, creating a ‘furnace of (2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music), and Australia’s award-winning pianist/composer power and passion’. Andrea Keller, this concert will captivate the quartet’s growing cult audience and introduce For the Opening Night of the 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Bartz is joined by his new listeners to the quartet’s wild music highs, unique fusing of strings and voices and love of long-standing Quartet, comprising Greg Bandy, one of the original drum stylists, bassist James improvisation. King, and Melbourne’s very own Barney McAll, to perform their latest project – Coltrane Rules, Tao of a Music Warrior – honouring the icon with classic Coltrane renditions that would make him proud. Jazz High Tea Chelsea Wilson The Pavilion, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Gasworks Circus Showdown music Music: Jazz Various Artists 5 June | 3pm | 120 minutes Gasworks Arts Park: 21 Graham Street, Albert Park Booking Details: must be booked by 3pm Friday 3 June at circus Circus and physical theatre www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2016/world-jazz-folk/jazz-high-tea- 1, 2 and 4 June | 7:30pm | 120 minutes chelsea-wilson?m=performances. Booking Details: Can purchase on the door but booking recommended: Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. www.gasworks.org.au/event/gasworks-circus-showdown. www.artscentremelbourne.com.au Getting There: www.gasworks.org.au/visit-us/find-us www.gasworks.org.au Melbourne’s two great loves, food and culture, converge in an afternoon of high tea and Australia’s finest jazz talent. Gasworks Circus Showdown is the only performance opportunity of its kind in Australia. A The June edition of this elegant high tea experience welcomes Chelsea Wilson, a Melbourne- festival of circus performance, it is one-part competition, one-part showcase, and spotlights a based jazz and soul vocalist who has performed in , , Indonesia, Thailand, the selection of exceptional circus and physical theatre talent from Melbourne and beyond. Caribbean and UAE and made her UK debut at the iconic Glastonbury Festival 2015. Gasworks Circus Showdown culminates in the Gasworks Circus Showdown Spectacular… and Enjoy your jazz in style, with a glass of Katnook sparkling wine on arrival, before an indulgent who will be crowned the Gasworks Circus Showdown champion! spread of house-made cakes, pastries and savoury treats, and freshly brewed tea. Eight acts will battle it out across two nights (Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 June), and four acts will proceed to the Gasworks Circus Showdown Spectacular on Saturday 4 June. A panel of industry experts and you, the audience, will have your say on who will be crowned the Gasworks Circus Showdown Champion! The winning act will receive a professional development prize valued at more than $4,000.

14 15 Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black Late Night Jams with the Hue Blanes Trio Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne Melbourne International Jazz Festival Music: Contemporary Classical Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne music music 30 May | 6pm | 60 minutes Music: Jazz Booking Details: melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/joe-chindamo-and-zoe- 3 – 5 June | 11pm – late black-i. Tickets also available at the door. Booking Details: tickets at the door. Getting There: walk or #1 tram. Getting There: train to Melbourne Central, walk, or any Swanston Street tram. www.melbournerecital.com.au www.melbournejazz.com

Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required. Please World premieres and reimagining classics. call +61(0)3 96632856. Joe Chindamo and Zoë Black continue their trailblazing commitment to new music. ‘Hue Blanes has a transcendent voice, perfect timing and an angelic touch on the piano, he’s a Interspersed in this program will be world premieres from Joe’s pen and innovative reimaginings star.’ Deborah Conway of well-loved classics, as you’ve never heard them before. Join us at Bennetts Lane for Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s late night jam sessions. In September 2015 Zoë and Joe made their Carnegie Hall debut with their latest release, The Led by the remarkable Hue Blanes Trio, Late Night Jams are all about losing yourself in the New Goldberg Variations, which met with critical acclaim. ‘They give you a fine new look at spontaneity and excitement of these improvised sessions. what can go with [Bach’s Goldberg Variations] a second work that can take its place proudly next to the original. It is a must for all Bachaholics as well as anybody looking for a new sonic experience. Bravo!’ – Grego Applegate Edwards, Classical-Modern Music Review (New York). Lionel Loueke + The Vampires Melbourne International Jazz Festival Bennetts Lane Jazz Club: 25 Bennetts Lane, Melbourne music La Bohème (Puccini) Music: Jazz Opera Australia 4 June | 7pm and 9:30pm (doors open 30 minutes prior) | 75 minutes Booking Details: www.melbournejazz.com/program/lionel-loueke-the-vampires Opera Australia, State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne opera Opera Getting There: train to Melbourne Central Station, walk, or any Swanston Street tram. 28 May | 7:30pm | 135 minutes www.melbournejazz.com Booking Details: www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/opera/la-boheme Wheelchair access: additional assistance from venue staff may be required. Please Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. call +61(0)3 96632856. www.opera.org.au Guitarist Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the jazz world, collaborating with seminal jazz figures including Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Herbie Hancock, who has praised Loueke as “a musical painter”. La Bohème is a celebration of first loves. Sydney’s The Vampires are renowned for their blend of soulful jazz, old-school reggae, exotic Cafe Momus is beckoning, with its glittering lights, bohemian spirit and fishnet stocking-clad Balkan melodies and all-out funk-laden Afrobeat. Their risk-taking improvisational style and ladies. Rodolfo is mooning over Mimì, Marcello is fuming over Musetta and the stage is set for exhilarating interplay meet Lionel Loueke’s musical mastery and deep knowledge of African folk first loves, first heartbreaks and a grief that’s all too real. It’s La Bohème, one of the world’s forms in a must-see collaboration. favourite operas. Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote his smash-hit La Bohème, this story of first love still tops the list of favourite operas around the world. La Bohème is a story we understand. It’s about friendship and falling in love. It’s about sacrifice and never giving up, even if it means parting with your lover – or your favourite coat. ’ glittering production, set in the bohemian streets of 1930s Berlin, returns to Melbourne with international stars Lianna Haroutounian and Gianluca Terranova, conducted by Andrea Molino.

16 17 L U C I D MIRA FUCHS Chunky Move Melanie Jame Wolf/Savage Amusement Chunky Move Studios: 111 Sturt Street, Southbank Arts House: 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne dance Dance: Contemporary Theatre: Interdisciplinary 28 May – 5 June | Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 5pm | 60 minutes THEATRE 2 – 5 June | Thursday – Friday 8:30pm, Saturday 5:30pm and 8:30pm, Booking Details: book tickets through www.trybooking.com/KTUC. Use booking code Sunday 5:30pm | 70 minutes CHUNKISPA to access discounted tickets or email [email protected]. Booking Details: tickets available www.artshouse.com.au. Tickets can also be purchased Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18. on the door subject to availability. Box office opens one hour before the show. www.chunkymove.com.au Getting There: taxi/walk or #57 tram from Elizabeth Street to stop #12. www.artshouse.com.au

Heroes, icons, imagined worlds and censored dreams. We relentlessly create, monitor and edit our own image in response to an abundance of references and influences. In a hyperconscious Mira Fuchs is an expert. An expert private dancer. world, how do we define ourselves? She’s also the public face of artist Melanie Jame Wolf’s eight-year private life as a stripper in a Chunky Move – Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company – presents the world premiere gentleman’s club. Mira wants to dance you through the myriad questions and contradictions of of L U C I D, an intimate work for two performers, multiple cameras and a screen, which her work, that time and her world. In an intimate, in-the-round work, Melanie speaks, prances interrogates how we imagine and reconstruct our identities. and twists her way through an abstracted memoir that trips between lap-dance and body Following Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk’s latest critically acclaimed politics. With humour, high heels and deep insight, she fashions a looking glass for our own works Complexity of Belonging (2014) and Depth of Field (2015), L U C I D sees two performers reflections on the work of stripping. travel to places where they can be all that they desire, fear or censor. Shapeshifting in and out Leave your preconceptions with the coat-check and step into an oft-hidden economy of desire of other people’s skins, they confront themselves in reflections of others. L U C I D reveals the and exchange. Both entertaining and unflinchingly personal, MIRA FUCHS tantalisingly explores many faces we present to the world; a culmination of the carefully crafted or those released by sexuality, gender, performance, intimacy, dance-as-labour, looking and being looked at, and fearless abandon. pleasure, in a world where money is time and timing is everything.

Lucy Guerin Inc: Meet and Greet Opening Ceremony The Light In Winter Lucy Guerin Inc Federation Square, Corner Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne The Coopers Malthouse, Hoopla Room: 113 Sturt St, Southbank Opening Ceremony dance Dance: Contemporary 2 June | 5pm | 135 minutes 3 June | 6pm | 45 minutes Booking Details: bookings not required. Booking Details: RSVP essential via email [email protected] by 2 June at 5pm. Getting There: walk from Deakin Edge, Federation Square to the ceremony. Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18. www.fedsquare.com/umbrellas/the-light-in-winter www.LucyGuerinInc.com Acclaimed contemporary dance company Lucy Guerin Inc invites ISPA delegates to an informal This year The Light in Winter celebrates its tenth anniversary, marking ten years of warming up “meet and greet” event that will feature a short excerpt of the company’s most recent work, the heart of Melbourne at Fed Square through a combination of major light-art commissions Motion Picture. CEREMONY OPENING with hearty community participation. Motion Picture is Lucy Guerin’s 11th full-length work for her Melbourne-based company, and The opening ceremony will acknowledge the ten years of the festival and its community premiered at Arts House, Melbourne during Dance Massive in March 2015. It is now scheduled to participants, as they are welcomed again to Leempeeyt Weeyn’, the Indigenous Campfire tour in January 2017 to Theatre de la Ville in and other venues in France and . which artist Vicki Couzens created for the very first The Light in Winter. The fire will be lit that night, in the presence of delegates to the ISPA Congress, and will remain burning at the front Artistic Director Lucy Guerin will provide delegates with insights into the company’s rich history of Federation Square for the whole of the winter season: the sight and smell of the smoke has and future projects, which will be followed by a Q&A session. become a beautiful marker of the coldest months. We invite you to join Lucy and the dancers for wine and cheese after the performance.

18 19 Out of Earshot (development showing) Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet KAGE Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Oratory, The Abbotsford Convent: 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne music dance Dance: Contemporary dance theatre Music: Classical 31 May | 7pm | 20-minute performance followed by discussion of work and chance to 3 – 4 June | 8pm | 110 minutes have a drink with artistic team. Total duration 60 minutes. Booking Details: Booking Details: email [email protected] to confirm attendance. Some tickets will be www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2016-season/prokofievs-romeo-and-juliet available at the door. Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. Getting There: taxi or train to Victoria Park Station then walk or bus #200 or #207 to Clarke www.mso.com.au Street. Information on transport options can be found on the Abbotsford Convent website: www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visit/visitor-information#getting-here. www.kage.com.au Audiences should prepare to be enthralled and enraptured in this program showcasing the dark side of love and life. Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending? That was the mad plan for the ballet that Sergei Prokofiev composed for the Bolshoi in 1935. Thankfully sanity intervened – or, In KAGE’s newest work Out of Earshot, everyday language becomes both redundant and at least, Soviet cultural officers did – and the result is far from a saccharine love story, instead indefinable while the meaning remains unmistakable. Imagine listening with your eyes and delivering a violent, stormy climate for our star-cross’d lovers. using your heart, your hands and your instinct to voice your emotions. Imagine watching a Also on this all-Russian program is a rare chance to hear Mussorgsky’s equally tempestuous performance where both sound and silence become unnecessary. Night on Bald Mountain, and one of Rachmaninov’s greatest works, his Piano Concerto Directed by Kate Denborough, Out of Earshot will feature a profoundly Deaf dancer as well No.2. The genesis of this concerto may in part be attributed to one Dr Nikolai Dahl: Moscow as a renowned contemporary jazz musician exploring the power of non-verbal language, physician, amateur musician and hypnosis therapist and the name that appears as the intense physicality and the role that sound plays within communication. The cross-artform dedicatee. It is said that Dr Dahl and his swinging pocket-watch helped the composer emerge performance will be created with KAGE’s signature style of vibrant storytelling and distinctive from a crippling depression, enabling him to write the work that would go on to bring him so aesthetic, which has proved to resonate strongly with a broad audience. much glory. Following an initial one-week creative development in 2015, KAGE is beginning rehearsals on 16 It is performed by award-winning Korean pianist Joyce Yang, who has been described by critics May 2016 and invites ISPA delegates to attend a creative development showing on Tuesday 31 as an ‘astonishing artist’ and makes a welcome return to Melbourne and the MSO. The concert May to find out more about this bold new work. is conducted by Diego Matheuz.

Pasifika Showcase Resident Alien by Tim Fountain Multicultural Arts Victoria, Know Your Roots, The Robertsons and Riverlinks Cameron Lukey Presents Eastbank Centre: 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton fortyfivedownstairs: 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne dance Dance: Contemporary, traditional Pacific Islander Theatre theatre Music: Hip Hop, Soul, RnB, Gospel 25 May – 12 June | Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 6pm | 70 minutes Interdisciplinary: Traditional ceremonies and rituals and feasts Booking Details: +61 (0)3 9662 9966 or go to www.fortyfivedownstairs.com. Use 28 May | 6pm | 210 minutes

MUSIC/ booking code ISPA to access discounted tickets. Tickets available at the door subject Booking Details: www.riverlinksvenues.com.au to availability. Getting There: Drive, V/Line trains and buses – phone 136 196 or www.vline.com.au. Getting There: Walk or any tram down St Kilda Road/Swanston Street. www.riverlinksvenues.com.au or www.multiculturalarts.com.au www.cameronlukey.com From his early years as an androgynous nude model in 1930s London, to finding fame as the first to speak so openly about life as a gay man, there was no-one quite like Quentin Crisp. In Tim Multicultural Arts Victoria, Know Your Roots, The Robertsons and Riverlinks present Pasifika Fountain’s Resident Alien, the legendary author opens the door to his famously filthy New York Showcase, the first major showcase in Shepparton of its rich local Pacific culture, music, dance apartment for an unforgettable heart-to-heart about life as only he knows it. Oprah Winfrey, and food on Saturday 28 May at the Eastbank Centre, Shepparton (a two-hour drive from Princess Diana, oral sex – no topic is off limits as Quentin explains, in his inimitable way, how to Melbourne). be happy. The evening will feature a traditional Kava ceremony, performances by local acts The Starring five-time Helpmann Award winner Paul Capsis as Crisp and directed by Green Room Robertsons, Mike and Cheryl, Brenda Hafoka, Generation Ignite, and Shepparton High School’s Award-winner Gary Abrahams. Know Your Roots Crew. There will also be a talent quest, a Samoan feast from Nana’s Little Island and Nuholani and Tama Tatau.

20 21 Rhapsody Straight White Men Southern Cross Soloists Melbourne Theatre Company Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne music Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Music: Classical Theatre: Drama/Comedy theatre 31 May | 6pm | 70 minutes 28 May – 4 June | Monday – Tuesday 6:30pm, Wednesday – Friday 8pm, Saturday 4pm Booking Details: www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/new-zealand- and 8:30pm | 90 minutes chamber-soloists. Tickets also available at the door. Booking Details: book online at mtc.com.au using booking code ISPAMTC or call the Getting There: walk or #1 tram. MTC box office direct on +61 (0)3 8688 0800. Tickets also available at the door, subject www.melbournerecital.com.au to availability. Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. www.mtc.com.au/swm An enchanting program of lyrical and rhapsodic masterpieces. Southern Cross Soloists, Ensemble in Residence at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents Rhapsody, an enchanting program of lyrical and rhapsodic masterpieces. Director Sarah Giles takes on the razor-edged new comedy from one of American theatre’s A unique chamber music ensemble comprising of leading musicians from around Australia, most acute observers of race and identity, Young Jean Lee. Christmas is for family, and brothers Southern Cross Soloists deliver exciting and uplifting performances in their signature up close Matt, Jake and Drew gather at their Dad’s house for the usual observances of the holiday and personal style. From Ravel’s fantastically twirling La Valse, to Debussy’s gem Rhapsody for season, adding a few rituals of their own, such as playing politically-correct board games and clarinet to Gershwin’s revolutionary Rhapsody in Blue, tonight’s program will charm and delight. worrying about what Mum would think. Although she’s been dead for some time now, their liberal, feminist mother still casts a vast shadow. She taught them how being heterosexual white males gives them an unfair advantage in America. But, as carefree youth gives way to Robert Glasper Trio mid-life anxiety, privileged is the last thing they feel. Melbourne International Jazz Festival Melbourne Recital Centre: Corner Southbank Boulevard & Sturt Street, Melbourne music Music: Jazz The Glass Menagerie 4 June | 7.30pm | 2 hrs 10 minutes (incl. interval) A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre Booking Details: The Coopers Malthouse, home of Malthouse Theatre: 113 Sturt Street, Southbank www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/robert-glasper-trio-usa Theatre Tickets also available at the door. theatre 18 May – 5 June | Tuesday 6:30pm, Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Saturday 1pm, Getting There: walk or #1 tram. Sunday 5pm | 165 minutes www.melbournerecital.com.au Booking Details: phone +61 (0)3 9685 5111, email [email protected], or in person at the venue. Getting There: walk, or any tram travelling up St Kilda Road to stop #17, or tram #1 to stop #18. Experience modern jazz’s newest master. Having spent the past decade reinterpreting and www.malthousetheatre.com.au reimagining modern jazz, Robert Glasper has firmly cemented himself as a master of a new generation. A prodigiously talented pianist, Glasper rose to prominence through his striking combination The Glass Menagerie is a story of memory, fragility, and delusion told through a fractured of acoustic jazz, hip-hop and R&B and his ground-breaking Black Radio albums. Yet, it was his kaleidoscope on stage and screen. Meet the formidable Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern desire to perpetually reinvent himself that gave rise to his Grammy-nominated record, Covered – Belle with delusions of grandeur. The year is 1937, and she’s trapped with her two adult children, his ode to those that have influenced him. the frustrated Tom and the cripplingly shy Laura. All three of them yearn for a brighter future but none can break free from their past. Could Laura’s “gentleman” caller be the answer? In a long-awaited return to an acoustic trio format, Glasper has reunited with long-term collaborators Vicente Archer and Damion Reid to reconfigure the music of John Legend, Fresh from a sold-out season in Sydney, and starring Wentworth’s as the family’s Radiohead, Harry Belafonte and Joni Mitchell – alongside jazz standards and a number of volatile matriarch, this production will have you grieving for the inevitable disintegration of a Glasper originals. family that is a stone’s throw away from collapse. Having played alongside Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garrett and Esperanza Spalding and contributed to the records of hip hop luminaries Kendrick Lamar, Q-Tip and Yasiin Bey, Glasper is without doubt one of the most versatile and influential artists in jazz today, with a style that is at once familiar and entirely unique.

22 23 The Magic Hour The Walking Neighbourhood Cicero’s Circle Theatre Company Lenine Burke La Mama Courthouse: 349 Drummond Street, Carlton Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne dance people

Dance: Modern Contemporary Participatory work led by children and young people 1 – 12 June | Wednesday 6:30pm, Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 4pm | 4 and 5 June | Saturday 2pm, Sunday 10am and 2pm | 70 minutes 105 minutes Booking Details: www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2016/families/the- Booking Details: www.lamama.com.au walking-neighbourhood

Getting There: any tram down Swanston Street to Melbourne University, then walk. young Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. www.lamama.com.au www.artscentremelbourne.com.au The Magic Hour is an exciting and flamboyant evening of music, dance and theatre that brings and together Kathakali and Odissi from India, Butoh from Japan, with Shakespearean theatre from Elizabethan England. In The Walking Neighbourhood young people take the lead and give you the opportunity to experience life through their eyes, as they take you on a unique guided walk of Melbourne’s Arts At a time when the greater political landscape in Australia is moving towards an Asia/Asian- Precinct. inclusive vision, this work in a very genuine way is trying to locate the form, essence and spirit In a series of short walks, they will take you on an exploration of the places and stories they

of Asian art forms, as embodied by Australian performers, in a performance that speaks via the children English language and the works of Shakespeare to a contemporary Australian audience. think are the most important. Each walk is one-of-a-kind and has been carefully curated for participants to learn, reflect, create or explore something or someplace. Audiences will delight in storytelling and discovery, as they are introduced to some of the more The Pearlfishers (Bizet) curious, intriguing and interesting facets of our city. Expect the unexpected in each walk, with Opera Australia music, dance, humour and a little bit of everyone’s own experiences wrapped up into this heart- State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne: 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne warming event. opera Opera 28 May | 1pm | 120 minutes Booking Details: Things NOT of this EARTH www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/opera/the-pearlfishers Circus Showcase 2016: Dress Rehearsal Getting There: Arts Centre Melbourne is the host and hub of the ISPA Congress. National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) www.opera.org.au circus NICA National Circus Centre: 41 Green Street, Prahran Circus 3 June | 7:30pm | 90 – 110 minutes The Pearlfishers paints a picture of paradise, of golden sands and colourful silks. That soul- Booking Details: Open dress rehearsal for ISPA delegates. Email [email protected] with stirring, chart-topping duet is just one highlight of a beautiful score. In the hands of master the subject line ISPA Congress to book. storyteller Michael Gow, Bizet’s romantic opera is a compelling tale. Two men swear loyalty to Getting There: train to Prahran Station and five-minute walk, #6 tram down St Kilda Road each other but their love for the same woman is stronger than any vow. As the opera unfolds, to stop #30, or taxi. Information on transport options can be found on the NICA website at temptation duels with duty, true hearts turn black with jealousy and rash choices bring regrets. www.nica.com.au/contacts-pm-2.html. Conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, and featuring , Dmitry Korchak and José www.nica.com.au Carbó, this new Pearlfishers offers audiences a chance to hear Bizet’s passionate music in a new light. Performed in French with English surtitles. Directed by renowned circus and theatre artist Hayden Spencer with associate direction from award winning circus artist and NICA graduate Emma Serjeant, Things NOT of this EARTH incorporates elite-level circus skills in a satirical romp towards an extra-terrestrial utopia. Distinctive circus acts will be presented against the backdrop of a sci-fi inspired “B movie”. In the tradition of all things “B movie”, the production will feature a diversity of other-worldly delights including a killer hermaphrodite from outer space, a giant foot-juggling strawberry and a soccer-ball-juggling alien. Fourteen of NICA’s final year artists will present spectacular solo acts including aerial straps and rope, Chinese pole, contortion, handstands, hula hoops, juggling, rolla bolla, roue Cyr, tightwire and trapeze.

24 25 Three Short Works Lloyd Jones La Mama Theatre: 205 Faraday Street, Carlton Theatre: Experimental theatre June 1 – June 5 | Wednesday – Friday 7:30pm, Sunday 5:00pm | 60 minutes Booking details: www.lamama.com.au Getting There: Any tram to Melbourne University down Swanston St and walk. Website: www.lamama.com.au Since 1974 Lloyd Jones has been engaged in non-text-based theatrical forms, mainly at La Mama and in this production continues his investigations into making theatre that is liberating to both performers and audience. This involves examining the outcome of three apparently disconnected and nonsensical titles and statements, to discover what unexpected ideas emerge from beneath the surface.

Weekly Ticket: the artist at the station Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey Art Projects Footscray Station: Footscray Train Station, Hopkins and Irving Streets, Footscray Interdisciplinary: A grand experiment 1 June | 10:30am | 120 minutes Booking Details: no booking required. Getting there: train to Footscray Station. www.weeklyticket.org What if a public artwork was an artist? I nterdisciplinary Weekly Ticket installs artist David Wells at Footscray Station every week for 15 years. David begins the project aged 55 and completes it at 70, the new “retirement” age. As the artist adapts to his environment and his environment to him, extraordinary collaborations will emerge. Sometimes he will be alone. Sometimes he will be in a crowd. He will be disguised in plain sight. The typical will become surreal and the extraordinary a regular occurrence, as commuters, locals and visitors become part of a living and evolving public artwork. Over 15 years, many local, national and international artists will become part of the expanded performative conversation. Weekly Ticket begins 3 February 2016 and finishes on 2 February 2031.

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