Theatre/Dance
Adelaide

Barossa Seulle

Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre prepares a new work for the Barossa Music Festival.

It is mid-morning on a Wednesday and Meryl Tankard steps out of rehearsal to talk about Seulle, a new work being developed especially for the Barossa Music Festival. Dressed in black leotard, she towels her thick, dark hair and makes a beeline to the spring water dispenser for a cupful.

These Barossa gigs are particular labours of love for Tankard and her …

1997

Rules of Thumb

by Daniel Keene and Alison Croggan

Red Shed Company

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The Red Shed’s association with Melbourne playwright Daniel Keene has been hugely productive. Collaboration in the best sense, it has created a trust between playwright and directors, designers and actors which has resulted in a series of successful commissions. All Souls was first, then award-winner, Because You Are Mine and last year, the film noir-ish spine-chiller, Terminus.

Rules of Thumb is a …

Quiver
Leigh Warren and Dancers
Norwood Town Hall
Adelaide

Murray Bramwell

Quiver, the new program from Leigh Warren and Dancers is continuing evidence of the company’s invention and excellence. With last year’s return season of Klinghoffer and now, the unveiling of two contrasting works, Shimmer and Swerve, Leigh Warren’s signatures are becomingly increasingly apparent. His work is disciplined, elegant and has the added intensity which music performed live can bring. With Klinghoffer, he borrowed ethereal choruses from John Adams’s opera, …