Photo: Sally Flegg .. Fdwcvwd WE’RE 18 PROUD HELLO 22 Sydney is a place with over the best art of the nation and CIRCUS CITY VISUAL ARTS/INSTALLATIONS MERITON FESTIVAL VILLAGE TO PLAY 60,000 years of history. This the world or simply sit back and Bayala – Patyegarang’s Notebooks 14 Circus: Family Act 26 Breaking Ground 45 beautiful city that sits amongst enjoy the extraordinary weather Circus for Everyone – 26 Exit 33 Briefs: The Second Coming 46 the rivers, harbour and ocean, with friends, Sydney Festival is Hang around with Aerialize! House of Mirrors 6 Celia Pacquola: The Looking Glass 51 shares an Aboriginal lineage for you. We’ve been doing it for Circus on Screen 26 Imagined Touch Installation 7 Christa Hughes is Oz Rockin’ the 51 that goes back before time 41 years, so we know a thing or Myuran Sukumaran – Another Day in Paradise 12 Ladies Lounge and now stretches to the skies. two about a good time. Flying Trapeze Workshops 26 OUR PART Scent of Sydney 4 The 29 clans of the Eora are HUMANS 27 Covered 50 Crisscross the city and enjoy the custodians of this land, which iD 24 The Beach 42 Felicity Ward: 50% More Likely To Die 50 many free activities we offer and we acknowledge through the Kaleidoscope 26 Vernon Ah Kee – not an animal or a plant 16 House of Mirrors 6 buy tickets to experiences that commitment of the Metropolitan Kaleidoscope Workshops 26 Let’s Dance 45 will live with you for the rest of Local Aboriginal Land Council Ockham’s Razor Workshop 27 MUSIC Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin 51 your life. Don’t do it alone. Grab and the many elders both Talking Circus 26 1967 – Music in the Key of Yes 13 Orszaczky Budget Orchestra 45 your friends and family and share past and present who work The Circus Comes to Town! 26 Alim Qasimov Ensemble 41 Otto & Astrid – Eurosmash! 51 the love. January is a time of Important cultural events like Sydney Festival tirelessly to make Sydney a safe, Tipping Point 27 Ane Brun 41 Retro Futurismus 50 New Year’s resolutions so get in respectful place to live. To all Bayala – Baraya: Sing up Country 14 Roller Jam 45 could not happen without the support of the early and say “January is a time who come from here, to all who Cash Savage and The Last Drinks 49 Soul of Sydney 45 people of Sydney. Your participation makes to be a better me. January is a call this place home and to all Circuit Des Yeux 21 Spiegeltent Music 48 all the difference. We’re pleased to join you in time for Sydney Festival.” THEATRE/OPERA who visit this glittering city … keeping creativity alive and well in our city. Sydney Festival – Our City in Anthropologies Imaginaires 23 Dalmatica: Chants of the Adriatic 41 The Fiery Maze 50 welcome to Sydney Festival. Find more events at www.whatson.sydney Summer. Biographica 38 Dori Freeman 21 The Hair Salon 45 Sydney Festival is the home of Hakawati 39 Glitterbox 54 Tomboy Survival Guide 23 Love the curious and the adventurous. Home Country 37 Halfway 48 Whether you want to learn Huff 22 Jessy Lanza 49 TALKS/READINGS/CLASSES about the neglected stories and Ich Nibber Dibber 36 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith 21 Bayala – Let’s Speak Sydney 14 ARTS NSW IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES sites of our city, continue family Wesley Enoch Imagined Touch 7 Klub Koori with Gawurra 49 Language Classes traditions, expose yourself to Sydney Festival Director King Roger 38 Lake Street Dive 48 Bayala – Out of the Vaults 14 PRESENTING WORK AS PART OF THE 2017 SYDNEY FESTIVAL Ladies in Black 28 Long String Instrument 40 Burrbgaja Yalirra 16 Measure for Measure 34 Lubomyr Melnyk 41 Patricia Cornelius Play Readings 37 Opera in the Domain 39 Mdou Moctar 49 Scent of Sydney Talks 4 SYDNEY SYMPHONY CAMPBELLTOWN Prize Fighter 36 Moses Sumney 21 Who’s Afraid of Patricia Cornelius? 37 ORCHESTRA ARTS CENTRE SHIT 37 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 19 Yellamundie National First Peoples 16 The Encounter 5 PJ Harvey 18 Playwriting Festival The Season 15 Rautavaara 33 SYDNEY SYDNEY Which Way Home 16 Regurgitator perform The Velvet 49 OTHER You and Me and the Space Between 39 Underground & Nico Australia Day/Ferrython 52 DANCE CHAMBER FORM DANCE Sex, Lynch and Video Games: An Exploration NIGHT MARKET 53 COMPANY OPERA PROJECTS DANCE/PHYSICAL THEATRE of 90s Screen Culture – Nicole Lizée Balabala 9 with the Australian Art Orchestra 23 Blood on the Dance Floor 15 Sky Terrace 54 OPERA AUSTRALIA CARRIAGEWORKS CHAMPIONS 10 Symphony Under the Stars: The Domain 53 Come and play Cry Jailolo 9 Symphony Under the Stars: Parramatta 53 Inheritor Album 22 Szun Waves 21 36 Institute 8 The Comet Is Coming 49 NATIONAL THEATRE ENSEMBLE Nude Live 8 Wafia 21 OF PARRAMATTA OFFSPRING Spectra 10 Weyes Blood 48 Still Life 11 Yann Tiersen 18 MOOGAHLIN PERFORMING ARTS POST URBAN THEATRE PROJECTS BELVOIR PRINCIPAL PARTNER OF SYDNEY FESTIVAL 46 ARTS NSW There are eight different magazine covers featuring eight different people. To learn about each of their stories visit sydneyfestival.org.au 24 PROUDLY SUPPORTING SYDNEY FESTIVAL FOR 41 YEARS 14 3 w INSTALLATION/TALKS THEATRE Can you know a city by the way it smells? Cat Jones distills into scents the substance of Sydney’s identity from its sophisticated airs to dirty laundry. Through conversation and debate around landscape, democracy, resistance, competition, and extravagance, THESENSES you’re invited to contribute your ideas and stories to this olfactory portrait of our city. COMPLICITE I UK BAY 19 CARRIAGEWORKS EXHIBITION: 7–29 JANUARY Closed Mondays THE ENCOUNTER TALKS: INSPIRED BY THE BOOK AMAZON BEAMING BY PETRU POPESCU 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 & 25 JANUARY DIRECTED BY SIMON MCBURNEY FREE Transmitted direct to the audience through headphones, the show’s groundbreaking sound design plugs into the power of imagination as we’re transported into the humid depths of the Amazon. Recreating the epic journey of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre in this solo performance, Richard Katz invites audiences along for an unforgettable, immersive, theatrical ride. Co-presented with the Sydney Opera House. DRAMA THEATRE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 18–28 JANUARY $86–$110 + booking fee WESLEY SAYS We’re all guilty of it. We escape into digital worlds for work and leisure and just turn off our ★★★★★ bodies. We sit there plugged in and disregard the majority “A FIVE-STAR of our sensory skills. Our HALLUCINOGENIC ancestors used every sense just to survive but now as modern TRIP WITH human beings we run the risk COMPLICITE ” of forgetting the power of our senses to trigger memories, THE INDEPENDENT construct relationships and help you feel as well as think. So we want to retune your body. Artists around the world are engaging in sensory stimulation and deprivation to help audiences see the world differently. By SCENT OF discovering the world through smell, understanding the experience of being deaf and blind or constructing detailed SYDNEY aural landscapes we are making sense of the human body. AUSTRALIA I WORLD PREMIERE SCENT OF SYDNEY Photo: Cat Jones Photo: Chloe Courtney P. 4 THE ENCOUNTER P. 5 4 BOOK 3+ FESTIVAL EVENTS AND SAVE UP TO 15% VISIT SYDNEYFESTIVAL.ORG.AU FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND TO BOOK 5 INSTALLATION CHRISTIAN WAGSTAFF AND KEITH COURTNEY I AUSTRALIA THEATRE/INSTALLATION A fascinating labyrinth of endless mirrors, magnified to terrifying dimensions, which recently messed with minds at Dark Mofo. Stumble your way around thousands of disorienting optical illusions and lose yourself in some bewildering reflections. There is only one way in to the House of Mirrors. Getting out is an art. MERITON FESTIVAL VILLAGE HYDE PARK NORTH 6–29 JANUARY $10 Tickets only available at venue HOUSE OF MIRRORS CHECK OUT MORE MERITON REVIEW DAILY FESTIVAL VILLAGE CLASSIC” JODEE MUNDY COLLABORATIONS I AUSTRALIA ON P44 FAIRGROUND THE OLD OLD THE TWIST ON ON TWIST “A BRILLIANT “A Photo: Pippa Dodds. Inset photo: Jeff Bushby Deafblind artists Heather Lawson and Michelle Stevens IMAGINED TOUCHTRACK 8 provide an insight into a world without sight or sound, CARRIAGEWORKS in a unique sensory performance. Wearing goggles and headphones that restrict light and sound – and through PERFORMANCES: intensified tactile communication – experience the artists’ 9–14 JANUARY stories in a profoundly different sensory environment. $56 + booking fee Imagined Touch is also presented as a tactile installation where you can get an insight into the Deafblind INSTALLATION: HOUSE OF MIRRORS P. 6 IMAGINEDexperience. TOUCH P. 7 10–15 JANUARY FREE 6 DON’T MISS A BEAT #SYDFEST 7 Take an intimate journey into the world have raged over what constitutes reputation for a robust take on the DANCE of art and dance at the Art Gallery WESLEY SAYS dance and, as you would expect, form. Internationally, we see the of NSW’s major summer exhibition the questions being asked are influences of street dance on the Nude: Art from the Tate collection. With often more important than finding bodies and movement vocabulary choreography by Rafael Bonachela, In the past few decades the an answer. Some of the most as generations of young people witness six dancers moving and definition of dance has noticeably interesting collaborations and grow up with access to a broad breathing, their souls bared as they broadened to incorporate ensembles in Australia choose range of influences. It’s exciting explore and respond to the imagery different styles of physical theatre, a hybrid of theatre, dance and to see the diversity of dance on and themes of one of art’s great live art and more collaborative design to make their work.