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6-26 JANUARY PREVIEW THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS PRINCIPAL PARTNERS SUPPORTED BY THE NSW GOVERNMENT VIA CREATE NSW STRATEGIC PARTNERS STRATEGIC SPONSOR Photo: Yaya Stempler Yaya Photo: SPECIAL DISTINGUISHED PARTNER SYD DISTINGUISHED PARTNER STAR PARTNERS WHAT A YEAR, SYDNEY! YOU DESERVE A FESTIVAL With so much water under the bridge, you’ve earned the right to a FEST COVID safe festival where you can enjoy your city. In 1977, when CORPORATE PARTNERS Sydney Festival began, Stephen Hall wrote, “we have conceived SPECIAL DISTINGUISHED PARTNER the Festival from the very beginning as a people’s Festival”, and in 2021 Sydney Festival is a gift to the people of Sydney, with 21 days of free events, performances, exhibitions and talks. COVID-19 DISTINGUISHED PARTNER has taught us to celebrate the best that Australia has to offer – with our homegrown, internationally-acclaimed artists showing FESTIVAL LAWYERS 2021 why they are considered among the best in the world. STAR PARTNERS We’re building a huge new stage at Barangaroo Reserve called The Headland, where you can watch amazingly talented dancers, singers, musicians and acrobats perform with the Sydney Harbour Bridge as their backdrop. MADE Bring the family to over 20 free installations and exhibitions across MEDIA PARTNERS the city, or give the whole family a treat and buy a ticket to the SPECIAL DISTINGUISHED PARTNERS zall-ages entertainment we’ve organised for you. We’re breathing some life into the live music scene with our DISTINGUISHED PARTNERS ALLOWED AND LOCAL program, designed to get you out of the FOR house and enjoying live music in our bars and clubs. Grab a ticket to see H.M.S. Pinafore with a twist or Humans 2.0 by STAR PARTNERS Circa – Australian companies who are flying high even when they are grounded. CONTRIBUTORS In my first Festival message I reminded us about the 60,000+ Artbank Australia CloudWave RDA Research Safety Culture years of history of this place, and in 2021 we continue to celebrate YOU our Indigenous heritage with the Blak Out program, peppered WITH SINCERE THANKS TO PRINCIPAL PHILANTHROPIC PARTNER through this lift-out. Don’t miss Sunshine Super Girl, where PETER FREEDMAN AM AND OUR PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORTERS we build a tennis court in Sydney Town Hall and celebrate the achievements of Evonne Goolagong. MAJOR DONORS Larissa Behrendt AO and Julianne Maxwell Lizanne and Julian Knights AO There are over 140 events and experiences for you to enjoy this Hooper Shaw Foundation Michael Lavarch AO John and Jo Millyard Benjamin Law January at Sydney Festival – so get curious and discover the full Anthony and Suzanne Elizabeth Laverty Mary Read Cheryl Lo program online. Maple-Brown Dr Kathryn Lovric and Victoria Taylor Fiona Long Neilson Foundation Dr Roger Allan Villa & Villa P/L Dr Ann McFarlane Love Roslyn Packer AC David Mathlin and Camilla Kim Williams AM and Catherine Dawn McGuire Drover Dovey Catriona Noble DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Penelope Seidler AM Ray Wilson OAM Christopher Tooher Antoinette Albert Sydney Festival is registered as a COVID John Barrer ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS FESTIVAL PATRONS SYDNEY FESTIVAL Safe business with the NSW Government . Andrew Cameron AM and The Arcadia Syndicate John and Helen Barclay PHILANTHROPY COMMITTEE We have a COVID-19 Safety Plan and are Cathy Cameron Carol Crawford Kate Dundas Prof. Larissa Behrendt AO Hunt Family Foundation Wesley Enoch AM Jennifer Dowling and Andrew Cameron AM (Chair) committed to keeping you safe. Fiona Martin-Weber and Dianne and Terry Finnegan James Hill David Mathlin For further information about our Tom Hayward Linda Herd Kiong Lee and Richard Funston Jacqui Scheinberg Wesley Enoch Scully Fund Roslyn and Alex Hunyor Lyndall and Trevor McNally Rhae Shaw COVID-19 safety measures and Turnbull Foundation Lisa and Mark Jackson Pulver Ezekiel Solomon AM Maria Villa what’s required of you, visit Festival Director David Kirk MBE FESTIVAL HEROES Amanda and Andrew Love FESTIVAL LOVERS sydneyfestival.org.au/stay-covid-safe Anonymous Dr Carolyn Lowry OAM and Sandra Bender Robert Albert AO and Peter Lowry OAM Paddy Carney Libby Albert Robyn Martin-Weber Barry Fitzgibbon FOR MORE INFO ON THE PROGRAM GO TO SYDNEYFESTIVAL.ORG.AU A NEW STAGE, A NEW EXPERIENCE Sydney Festival embraces the outdoors this summer with a brand-new pop-up stage at Barangaroo Reserve featuring the program’s biggest shows, set against the spectacular backdrop of the harbour. Over 17 nights, see some of the finest music, dance and performance in the Sydney Festival program. There’s The [Uncertain] Four Seasons, an inspiring interaction between Vivaldi, climate change data and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Bangarra Dance Theatre’s landmark performance Spirit: a retrospective 2021; Paul Mac’s soaring The Rise and Fall of Saint George; WESLEY SAYS and boundary-pushing circus company Gravity & Other Get in quick, tickets are strictly limited and Myths’ most ambitious show yet, The Pulse. sure to sell out! Inimitable vocal talents Paul Capsis and iOTA conjure ecstasy and madness in RAPTURE; and Katie Noonan’s all-women rock band perform the Aussie classics of songwriter Don Walker in Songs of Don. AN EVENING AT THE General admission tickets are just $25 (plus booking fee) and secure a dedicated, COVID-safe spot, along with access to on-site bars and food trucks. Bring your friends, book as a group and enjoy a show together in the balmy summer dusk. Closing the Festival on 25 January, much-loved overnight gathering The Vigil returns (with free admission, but registration is essential). Join us for an evening of Photo: Josh Groom Photo: reflection and performance, celebrating First Nations HEADLAND culture on Gadigal Country. Photo: Blue Murder Studios Photo: Photo: Victor Photo: Frankowski Victor Photo: Frankowski Photo: Photo: Lisa Tomasetti Photo: Scott Marsh Photo: Photo: David Boon Photo: THE [UNCERTAIN] THE RISE AND FALL OF SPIRIT: A RETROSPECTIVE 2021 THE VIGIL SONGS OF DON RAPTURE: A SONG CYCLE OF THE PULSE FOUR SEASONS SAINT GEORGE BANGARRA DANCE THEATRE KATIE NOONAN, CHRISTINE ANU, DESIRE AND ECSTASY, GRAVITY & OTHER MYTHS SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PAUL MAC, LACHLAN PHILPOTT SUZE DEMARCHI, EMILY WURRAMARA MURDER AND MAYHEM AND PERFORMING LINES AND THE MUSIC OF DON WALKER PAUL CAPSIS AND iOTA MADE ON GADIGAL LAND FOR MORE INFO GO TO SYDNEYFESTIVAL.ORG.AU DANCE AND CIRCUS PHYSICAL THEATRE INSPIRING STORIES, THE POWER TO MOVE WESLEY SAYS CLOSE TO HOME Download the WONDROUS PHYSICAL THEATRE, DANCE calendar from our AND CIRCUS CAPTIVATING AND SURPRISING website and mark up your favourites After a year of emotionally circling the void, exorcise THEATRE your body with performances at Carriageworks that Sydney Town Hall transforms into a tennis court push human physicality to the extreme. for Sunshine Super Girl, a celebration of the Dance theatre powerhouse Force Majeure remarkable life story of pioneering tennis legend (You Animal, You, Sydney Festival 2018) brings Evonne Goolagong, told with signature dry together stage veterans Paul Capsis, Olwen Fouéré Australian wit. and Pamela Rabe with an ensemble of young Take a crash-course in the thousand-year performers for The Last Season. strong tradition of courtly Persian love poetry at Clowning goes cannibalistic in Mitch Jones’ Carriageworks with Dorr-e Dari; the language (Model Citizens, Sydney Festival 2018) darkly of love told through intimate stories and epic comic exploration of society’s obsession with THEATRE ballads from the streets of Kabul, Tehran and over-consumption in AutoCannibal. Quetta, revisited via Western Sydney. Award-winning contemporary circus company Circa The multitalented Jonny Hawkins (Dollar Bin returns to Sydney Festival with their most ambitious Darlings, Sydney Festival 2019) flexes his show yet, Humans 2.0 – celebrating the strength and theatrical muscles and pays homage to the Photo: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images Evening Standard / Hulton Photo: power of humanity with virtuosic displays of jaw- wisdom and (often wild) life stories of older dropping acrobatics. women in Maureen: Harbinger of Death, inspired by a real-life friend. Innovators in the realm of visual and physical theatre, Erth, will take you on a puppetry-based guided tour And KENNY, Australia’s favourite sanitary in Duba – an eco-immersive experience, featuring engineer, arrives at the Ensemble Theatre to SUNSHINE SUPER GIRL vulnerable animals on the verge of extinction. spread his unerringly optimistic and singular ANDREA JAMES AND And take a stroll through Parramatta Park to discover worldview in a hilarious adaptation of the hit film. PERFORMING LINES In Situ, a collection of site-specific dance works Photo: Justin Ma Photo: responding to local stories with Dance Makers Collective (The Rivoli, Sydney Festival 2020). Photo: James Green Photo: DUBA ERTH VISUAL & PHYSICAL INC. THE LAST SEASON FORCE MAJEURE Photo: Photo: Christian Trinder Anna Photo: Kucera Photo: Joe Engstrom Photo: Photo: Jacinta Oaten Photo: MAUREEN: KENNY DORR-E DARI: A POETIC Ro Llauro Photo: HARBINGER OF DEATH ENSEMBLE THEATRE CRASH COURSE IN THE JONNY HAWKINS AND NELL RANNEY LANGUAGE OF LOVE PYT FAIRFIELD IN SITU DANCE MAKERS COLLECTIVE AUTOCANNIBAL MITCH JONES MADE WITH ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY FOR MORE INFO GO TO SYDNEYFESTIVAL.ORG.AU Photo: Gretchen Robinette Photo: OPERA OLD AND NEW SOUNDS COLLIDE POEM FOR A DRIED UP RIVER SYDNEY CHAMBER OPERA Pedro Greig Photo: OPERA AND CLASSICAL MUSIC CYCLES Photo: Photo: Joshua Young EXPERIENCES SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR Experience six of Australia’s best pianists playing six grand pianos, all performing a AND virtuosic kaleidoscope of music in the visually and acoustically stunning Sydney Town Hall FUTURE REMAINS Vestibule. SYDNEY CHAMBER OPERA Sydney Chamber Opera explores tales of doomed lovers and illicit desires in Future Remains, bringing to the stage beloved Czech CLASSICAL composer Leoš Janácek’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared (in its Australian stage premiere) and the world premiere of Huw Belling’s Fumeblind Oracle, with libretto by 12 HANDS 6 GRANDS Pierce Wilcox.