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Make the most of the Festival on a budget. Discounts apply for most ticketed events. See page 72 for all the details.

For the latest Festival news, detailed program info and updates, clips, images and a wealth of extras visit www.melbournefestival.com.au

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Welcome Messages

Carrillo Gantner AO President

This is the first Festival I have been involved in as President of the Board, but I have enjoyed almost every Melbourne Festival since the very beginning.

In 2010 Melbourne Festival celebrates 25 years of bringing the finest contemporary art to our city. I think back with great pleasure on so many outstanding performances and shows from all around the globe that the Festival has brought us.

The extensive program of events planned for this year’s Festival is the result of a lot of hard work by many dedicated individuals. But hard work and artistic brilliance are only part of the story. A Festival of this size and calibre would not be possible without significant financial contribution from our government partners, our generous sponsors and our invaluable personal donors, the Patrons Circle members. It is thanks to them that we can all enjoy this 25th Melbourne Festival.

Robert Doyle Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival program.

Melbourne Festival is not just a festival in Melbourne, but importantly is a festival for Melbourne. And once again it’s set to take over the city with a huge array of events and exhibitions happening in galleries, theatres, music venues and outdoor spaces.

The 2010 Festival program has something for all arts lovers to enjoy, whatever their budget – from the free opening night spectacular aerial theatre show K@osmos to the huge contemporary music celebration at the Forum featuring nine eclectic international groups and 12 great local acts.

The City of Melbourne is proud to support the 25th Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Take a look at this guide and discover a world of art at your Melbourne Festival.

Brett Sheehy Artistic Director

Hello and welcome to the 2010 Melbourne Festival.

Last year we embarked on a Festival vision focussing on innovation, excellence, accessibility, affordability and the broadest possible engagement.

This year that vision is further enhanced, and we do so with the most contemporary work from the current artistic Zeitgeist. In particular, threads which have emerged in artworks created here and internationally include vivid explorations of mortality, spirituality, transition and transcendence. And as with much contemporary art practice, the boundaries between the artform silos of old continue to blur, morph and dissolve, giving us everything from an installation opera set in a gallery space to visual artworks which began their lives on the opera stage. Indeed, it is frequently impossible to describe the works in this program exclusively as drama, opera, dance, music concert or art exhibition (though we have kept genre descriptions in the Planner as a guide). The artistic endeavours you encounter are best characterised simply as ‘works of art’, created by some of the finest creative minds of our times.

Many of the key initiatives of the 2009 program are further explored this year – a new raft of Australian debuts in the

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John Brumby MP Premier

The Melbourne International Arts Festival is a great highlight on Victoria’s thriving cultural calendar.

With events from 29 countries, this year’s program represents a chance for us all to experience the best in contemporary art from around the world, while at the same time shining the spotlight on our own incredibly gifted arts community.

Throughout October we warmly welcome artists and art lovers from interstate and overseas to celebrate our great city.

The Melbourne Festival is one of the world’s premier arts events and of immense cultural and economic significance to Victoria.

Our Government has proudly supported this wonderful cultural event since it began 25 years ago, and I invite all Victorians to get involved and see why it is one of the world’s best.

Peter Batchelor MP Minister for the Arts

When the Victorian Government established an international arts festival 25 years ago, it was with a bold vision to bring the best of the world’s arts to local audiences. Since then, the Festival has inspired Melbourne with an extraordinary array of arts experiences – from the provocative to the whimsical, from living legends to artists at the cutting edge.

It has also provided a high profile, international platform for our local artists to continue to shine alongside their international contemporaries.

This year’s Festival again sees extraordinary local talent among the 13 world and 15 Australian premiere works as part of a program that will make the city buzz with excitement and creative energy.

I’ll be taking in as much as I can, and hope that you do too!

contemporary music program at the Forum; further interrogation of current dance-opera; the collision of visual imagery and technical wizardry in myriad productions and presentations; and for our free outdoor opening we counterpoint the 19th Century aerial aesthetic of Transe Express with the 21st Century aerial aesthetic of Grupo Puja!.

Of the 908 artists presenting their work for you, 658 are Australian and 250 are International, with many of the international artists realising their Australian debuts, as we continue to traverse genres and geographies to find the most significant artworks for our time and place.

As well, much of the program is exclusive to our city, distinguishing Melbourne as Australia’s ‘destination festival’ – for the nation and the region.

I also want to welcome to the Festival its first Principal Partner in eight years – FOXTEL. It is especially appropriate in these years of growth and innovation that our partner is a dynamic, young company with national reach.

I look forward to seeing you at this, the 25th edition of Melbourne’s premier cultural event, and I especially look forward to having a post-show chat and a drink at Seventh Heaven, the Festival’s new-look artist and audience lounge (see page 33).

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The FOXTEL Festival opening event is literally out of this world, as aerial choreography and live rock music come together for some fast and furious flying family fun

Following last year’s mischievous bells, when France brought the 19th Century to the sky, this year Spain and Argentina take us from court jesters to cosmonauts with a 21st Century aerial theatre show – the dynamic, spectactular K@osmos.

Grupo Puja! is world renowned for its stunning productions that combine the skills of theatre, circus, dance, aerial sport, architecture, engineering, multimedia and music. With K@osmos, the company animates the Alexandra Gardens with an exciting combination of poetic images, awesome physical feats, thumping sounds and high octane energy.

Integrating special effects, acrobatics at altitude and rock music performed by a live band, K@osmos is a FREE performance set to dazzle and amaze people of all ages each night from 9pm.

Production Grupo Puja!Stage Director Luciano TrevignaniActors Director & Trainers Martin Herrero, Cristian Weidmann Music Director & Composer Gastòn IungmannAuthor Roberto StradaCostumes & Lighting Grupo Puja!Performers Adan García, Lazaro Acosta, Sheila Ferrer, Isabel Teruel, Gema Segura, MJosé Santiago, Fabian Niguez, José M.Bañon, Teresa Rodriguez, Martín Herrero Musicians Juan Colmenar, Adriano Galante, Gastòn Iungmann, Paula Nogueira, Félix Serrano

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Alexandra Gardens, Engineers Lawn (Access via St Kilda Rd)

Fri 8 – Sun 10 Oct at 9pm

35min no interval

FREEwww.melbournefestival.com.auImage: Dag Jenssen

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Grupo Puja!

K@OSMOS

Australian Debut

Argentina/SpainFOXTELFestival OpeningFree for the Whole Family!

Take a dazzling journey from the NGV to the Forum and let the Halo project light your way

Lighting designer Allan Parkinson is bringing the Festival precinct to life with a specially designed lighting installation to make the city look her best for this year’s Festival.

Halo illuminates the area around some of the Festival’s major venues to add to the festive feel in a way that long-time Festival goers will recall from the John Truscott years.

Experience the Festival through a purple haze as our signature colour takes over the town. From the footpath, to the trees, to the roofline, wherever you look you may discover exquisite lighting installations designed to bring some more spark to your 2010 Festival experience.

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From NGV International to the Forum Theatre

Fri 8 – Sat 23 Oct from dusk

www.melbournefestival.com.au

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ENTERTAINMENT PTYLTD

HALO

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Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll! In the hands of the man described by The Telegraph (UK) as “one of the most exciting, even revolutionary, forces in British dance”, contemporary dance has never looked so good

The worlds of classical ballet, modern dance and explosive rock music collide head on, yet manage to coexist in perfect harmony, in this exhilarating Australian premiere of Michael Clark’s come, been and gone. The playful and provocative smash hit of last year’s Edinburgh Festival is set to be this year’s must-see Melbourne Festival event.

Created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Michael Clark Company, the critically acclaimed production come, been and gone is made primarily to the music of the legendary David Bowie. It also embraces the work of his key collaborators Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Brian Eno and touches on some of his influences including The Velvet Underground and Kraftwerk amongst others.

Dancer, choreographer and artistic associate of London’s Barbican, Michael Clark creates work that combines his classical integrity with a more complex contemporary sensibility embracing virtue and vice, abandon and control, grace and embarrassment. He is renowned for his legendary collaborations with bands, fashion designers and visual artists including Wire, BodyMap, Leigh Bowery, Trojan and Sarah Lucas.

Choreographer Michael ClarkLighting Designer Charles AtlasCostumes Stevie Stewart, Richard Torry, Michael Clark Dancers Kate Coyne, Melissa Hetherington, Oxana Panchenko, Clair Thomas, Benjamin Warbis, Simon Williams

WARNING Loud Music, Adult Themes, Partial Nudity

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the Arts Centre, State Theatre

Fri 8 & Sat 9 Oct at 7.30pm Sun 10 Oct at 5pm

2hr with intervals

Premium.................................................$97.50A Reserve Full ..............................................$75A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$67.50A Reserve Concession ............................ $56.25B Reserve Full ............................................. $60B Reserve Concession ..................................$45C Reserve Full .............................................$42C Reserve Concession ............................$31.50Student (B & C Res) ......................................$25

Save up to 20%. See page 72 for details.

the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auCommissioned by barbicanbite09 and Dance Umbrella (London), La Biennale di Venezia (Venice) and Dansens Hus (Stockholm) as part of European Network of Performing Arts (ENPARTS)

Co-produced by barbicanbite09, Dance Umbrella, Michael Clark Company, Edinburgh International Festival, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Maison des Arts de Créteil

Michael Clark Company is supported by Arts Council England

Images: Jake Walters (Michael Clark Company), Photo copyright Mick Rock 1972, 2010 (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed)

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MICHAEL CLARK COMPANYcome, been and gone

Australian Premiere

UK

“An outrageously gorgeous piece of modern dance.” The Observer (UK)

“There is no dancer-choreographer alive who so naturally treads the line between the rigour of classical dance and the reckless glamour of rock and fashion.” The Independent on Sunday (UK)

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Hotel Pro Forma

TOMORROW, IN A YEARThe Opera Event of 2010

Music by The Knife

“Pure genius.” Politiken (Denmark)

“Einstein on the Beach for a new age. Exquisite scenic narrative technique and boldly exploratory music shift the position of operatic art in a single leap.” Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

Hotel Pro Forma’s striking imagery blends with Scandinavian electro-pop masters The Knife’s groundbreaking music to create a new species of electro dance opera

When Danish contemporary opera auteurs Hotel Pro Forma brought their landmark exploration of the Orpheus myth Operation: Orfeo to Australia last decade, the result was a nationwide sell-out sensation. Now, for their much anticipated return, they focus on Charles Darwin in the stunning contemporary opera, Tomorrow, in a year.

In 1859 Darwin published The Origin of Species and our view of the world was changed forever by his theory of evolution. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication, Hotel Pro Forma created an awe inspiring, large-scale operatic spectacle that will change our view of opera forever. Tomorrow, in a year is inspired by Darwin’s perception of nature and time. Directors Ralf Richardt Strøbech and Kirsten Dehlholm have created a lavish visual and conceptual universe formed by Darwin’s thoughts, experiences and letters.

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On stage an ensemble of singers and actors representing Darwin, time and nature, perform genre-defying compositions of exquisite beauty that challenge conventional conceptions of opera. Six dancers from a variety of dance backgrounds form the building blocks of life. The eclectic and engaging score, created by Swedish electro-pop duo The Knife in collaboration with musicians Planningtorock and Mt Sims, was partly recorded in the Amazon Jungle and Iceland, and combines sounds from the natural world with man-made electronic atmospherics, interspersed with swirling vocals. Together with the latest technology in light and sound, our image of the world as a place of incredible variation, similarity and unity is re-discovered in this revolutionary electronic feast for the senses.

Performed in English with surtitles

Mezzo-Soprano Kristina WahlinSinger/Actor Lærke Winther Singer Jonathan JohanssonDancers Lisbeth Sonne Andersen, Agnete Beierholm, Alexandre Bourdat, Bo Madvig, Jacob Stage, Jan Strøbech Direction Ralf Richardt Strøbech, Kirsten Dehlholm Music The Knife Musical Collaborators Mt Sims, Planningtorock Libretto The Knife, Mt Sims, Charles DarwinConcept & Set Design Ralf Richardt Strøbech Lighting Design Jesper Kongshaug Sound Design Anders JørgensenChoreographic Consultant Hiroaki Umeda Costumes Maja Ravn

WARNING Smoke & Laser EffectsPlease Note: The Knife will not be appearing

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Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct at 7.30pm

1hr 20min no interval

Premium...............................................$110.50A Reserve Full ............................................. $85A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$76.50A Reserve Concession .............................$63.75B Reserve Full ............................................. $68B Reserve Concession ..................................$51C Reserve Full ........................................$47.60C Reserve Concession ........................... $35.70Student (B & C Res) ......................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auProduced by Hotel Pro Forma

Associate Producer Quaternaire

Tomorrow, in a year is co-produced by La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden, The Concert Hall Aarhus, Dansens Hus, Stockholm and Hotel Pro Forma. Tomorrow, in a year is produced in cooperation with the Royal Danish Theatre

Tomorrow, in a year is supported by the Bikuben Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Oticon Foundation, Toyota Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, Sonning Foundation, Tuborg Foundation and Fund for Danish-Swedish Cooperation

Performance partners are Meyer Sound and M A C Cosmetics

Hotel Pro Forma is supported by the Danish Arts Council Committee for the Performing Arts

Images: Claudi Thyrrestrup

Choreographer Hiroaki Umeda can be seen performing in Adapting for Distortion & Haptic.

See also P16

Australian Premiere

Denmark/Sweden

Join Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rickie Lee Jones, Gurrumul Yunupingu, The Black Arm Band’s Leah Flanagan, Shellie Morris, Dan Sultan and Ursula Yovich and more to farewell the Festival with the international musical collaboration of the year

The Festival asked some of the world’s finest singers to reflect on our theme of spirituality and mortality with the question: ‘Which seven songs would you leave behind?’ The result is this unforgettable night of music.

Seven Songs to Leave Behind features an incredible line-up of extraordinary voices brought together for the first time to celebrate the power of song.

Sinead O’Connor, recognised worldwide for her astonishing voice and songs, has been making music, rejecting stereotypes and defying expectations for a quarter of a century.

John Cale legendary founding member of The Velvet Underground, acclaimed composer and one of the most influential and thought-provoking musicians of all time.

Meshell Ndegeocello, prolific songwriter and fearsome bassist, has had ten Grammy Award nominations during a stellar career traversing musical boundaries and defying categorisation.

Rickie Lee Jones highly influential, Grammy Award-winning, multi-million selling US singer-songwriter and producer who, over the course of a three-decade career, has performed and recorded in a variety of musical styles including rock, R & B, blues, pop, soul and jazz and has influenced an entire generation of female singers.

SEVEN SONGS TO LEAVE BEHIND

Each artist sings…their first song one from master poet and songwriter Leonard Cohena song to share a song they covet – the one, above all others, they wish they had written two songs of their own and one for the end of days ... a song to leave behind.

Australian Premiere

Various

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Sinead O’Connor John Cale Meshell Ndegeocello Rickie Lee Jones Gurrumul Yunupingu The Black Arm BandOrchestra Victoria

Gurrumul Yunupingu award-winning Indigenous Australian artist who will be familiar to Festival audiences from his previous sold out and critically acclaimed appearances.

The Black Arm Band Melbourne Festival favourites, the multi award-winning Black Arm Band featuring Leah Flanagan, Shellie Morris, Dan Sultan and Ursula Yovich have taken audiences around the world by storm since their Festival debut in 2006.

In a format of entwined concerts, over more than three hours, these artists each share highly personal musical essays of seven classic songs that hold special meaning to them: music that comes from the heart, the songs that inspire them and haunt them and the music they covet. Joining the singers alongside Orchestra Victoria is a handpicked band of Australia’s finest instrumentalists.

Seven Songs to Leave Behind is a spellbinding concert embracing humanity, mortality and spirituality, and a once in a lifetime celebration of what musicians leave behind for us all.Melbourne Festival reserves the right to vary the advertised program and to add, withdraw or substitute artists where necessary. No refunds for lineup changes will be offered.

Concept and Direction Steven RichardsonMusical Supervision Eugene Ball, Iain Grandage Orchestra Victoria Conducted by Benjamin Northey Additional Vocal Arrangements Lou BennettSound Design John O'Donnell

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the Arts Centre, Sidney Myer Music Bowl For conditions of entry please refer to www.melbournefestival.com.au

Sat 23 Oct at 7.30pm Gates open 6.30pm

3hr plus intervals

A Reserve Full ............................................ $110A Reserve Groups (8+) ................................$99A Reserve Concession ............................ $82.50General Admission Full ................................$75General Admission Concession .............. $56.25Student (General Admission) ........................$25

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To book tickets for this event as part of a discount package only

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Take a magical journey to modern China for a heart-wrenching love story told with legendary Robert Lepage’s striking theatrical vision

Versatile in every form of theatre craft, Robert Lepage is revered around the world for his innovative work as a director, scenic artist, playwright, actor and film maker. His creative and original approach to theatre has won him international acclaim and shaken classical stage direction to its foundations, especially through the use of new technologies. Contemporary history is his source of inspiration and his groundbreaking work transcends all boundaries.

For the 2010 Festival, this legend of the theatre returns to Australia with his stunning creation, The Blue Dragon, an intriguing story told with Lepage’s trademark visual mastery.

Lepage’s characters are often travellers drawn to the revealing encounter with the other, the exotic, the unknown. This latest work revolves around three characters in contemporary Shanghai: the Canadian ex-pat who runs a gallery in the city’s art district, the young Chinese artist exhibiting at the gallery and a Montreal ad executive in town to adopt a Chinese baby. In the effervescent paradox that is modern China, the collision of these three characters brings about fundamental changes for each.

Co-written by Robert Lepage, winner of the prestigious 2007 Europe Theatre Prize, and his collaborator Marie Michaud, The Blue Dragon bears all the hallmarks of Lepage’s original and highly visual style. His humour and uncanny ability to see into the heart of human relationships are stunningly rendered through the brilliant marrying of traditional Chinese art with modern technology and innovation.

Simple, ingenious, and ravishingly visual, The Blue Dragon reminds us why Robert Lepage is hailed by critics and audiences around the world as an extraordinary creative genius.

Performed in English, French and Mandarin with English surtitles

Written by Robert Lepage, Marie MichaudEnglish Translation Michael MackenzieDirector Robert LepageAssistant to Director Félix DagenaisPerformers Henri Chassé, Marie Michaud, Tai Wei Foo Set Designer Michel GauthierProperties Designer Jeanne LapierreSound Designer Jean-Sébastien CôtéLighting Designer Louis-Xavier Gagnon-LebrunCostume Designer François St-AubinCostume Assistant Jessica Poirier-ChangProjection Designer David LeclercChoreographer Tai Wei Foo

WARNING Strobe Effects

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the Arts Centre, Playhouse

Fri 8 – Sat 9 Oct & Mon 11 – Tue 12 Oct at 8pm Sat 9 Oct at 2pm Sun 10 Oct at 6pm


A Reserve Full ..............................................$75A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$67.50A Reserve Concession ............................ $56.25B Reserve Full ............................................. $60B Reserve Concession ..................................$45Student (A & B Res) ......................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auProduced by Ex Machina

In co-production with La Comète (scène Nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne); La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse; MC2 : Maison de la Culture de Grenoble; Le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montréal; Festival Internacional de las Artes de Castilla y León, Salamanca 2008; Le Théâtre du Trident, Québec; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver ; UCLA Live; Canada's National Arts Centre, Ottawa; Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley; barbican bite 10, London; BITEF Belgrade International Theater Festival; Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre; TNT - Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées; Ulster Bank Dublin Festival; Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid; Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris; Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre; Melbourne International Arts Festival

Ex Machina is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Quebec's Arts and Literature Council and the City of Quebec

Images: © Louise Leblanc, Yanick Macdonald

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ROBERT LEPAGEThe Blue Dragon

Australian Premiere

Canada

“The show’s daringly ingenious conclusion is a masterstroke from a great theatre-maker at the peak of his powers.” The Telegraph (UK)

“Few plays plug so directly into our current anxieties. It’s just such a delight to experience theatre like this.” The Globe and Mail (Canada)

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Legendary member of The Velvet Underground and acclaimed composer John Cale performs his seminal solo album, Paris 1919 and dips into his extensive songbook in a spectacular live performance accompanied by members of his band and Orchestra Victoria.

Cale's footprints are stamped all over the past four decades of musical history. Through co-founding The Velvet Underground and the music he has made as a solo artist and in collaborations, he has acquired a deserved reputation as a pioneering, influential force in modern music.

Frequently considered Cale’s best and most accessible recording, 1973's Paris 1919 is an orchestra art-rock album inspired by the Treaty of Versailles. It blends rock, soul and classical sounds with quietly anthemic songwriting and shifting instrumentation for a collection of songs Cale describes as "an example of the nicest ways of saying something ugly". This performance is for one night only and is sure to be a hit of this year’s Festival.

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Sat 16 Oct at 7.30pm

1hr 35min with interval

Premium.................................................$97.50A Reserve Full ..............................................$75A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$67.50A Reserve Concession ............................ $56.25B Reserve Full ............................................. $60B Reserve Concession ..................................$45C Reserve Full .............................................$42C Reserve Concession ............................$31.50Student (B & C Res) ......................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au

Image: Ric Bower

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NOISES IN MY HEADJohn Cale

Australian Premiere

UK

An intimate evening with the artist who began his musical career in a youth orchestra in Wales, wrote his first composition in primary school, developed a penchant for avant-garde at a London art college, was guided to New York by the hand of Aaron Copland and John Cage, honed his signature drone palate at the feet of LaMonte Young and then began his underground, noise bending attack on rock and roll from The Velvet Underground to his current genre-bending music.

Feedback/White Noise/Ambient/Noise-Pop/Electronic/Baroque/Alternative/Drone/Underground/Experimental/Classical/Deconstructionist/Darkwave/New Wave/Proto-Punk – when it takes this many tags to describe one artist’s style it’s no wonder he hears noises in his head!

The talk will be followed by a Q & A session.

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the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio

Tue 19 Oct at 7.45pm

Approx 1hr no interval

Full .......................................................$40Groups (8+) ..........................................$36Concession ...........................................$30Student .................................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au

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JOHN CALEWhen Past and Future CollideJohn Cale + Band + Orchestra Victoria perform Paris 1919 Live

“The Welshman and his band blew the roof off.” The Telegraph (UK)

“A masterpiece. One of the most ambitious albums ever released under the name of pop.” Rolling Stone

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Finucane & Smith's

CARNIVAL OF MYSTERIESRun away to the Carnival, where circus stars and sideshow queens, poets and daredevils, painters, playwrights, aerialists and food artistes concoct a heady mix of unforgettable entertainment under a handmade starry sky

From Finucane & Smith, the world’s pre-eminent purveyors of provocative variety and intimate spectacle, including the award-winning The Burlesque Hour, comes the surreal indoor Carnival of Mysteries. Inspired by some of life’s most profound mysteries, this complex, multilayered, seductive and wild artistic experience will leave Festival audiences begging for more!

Overhead, underfoot and throughout four extraordinary, intricate sites, the Carnival of Mysteries seduces audiences with the work of 30 unique artists commissioned to respond to the Mysteries of Innocence, Passion, Mercy, Forgiveness and Love.

Book for a specified Carnival session and take the plunge into a world of mysterious entertainment. Your entry ticket is exchanged for Carnival cash to allow you a tantalising taste of the Carnival’s delights, and throughout your visit you can exchange more currency for more enticing and exciting experiences.

Behind the intricate hoardings of ‘Sideshow Alley’ intimate pleasure halls offer entertainments for one to ten people; in the gorgeous ‘Pleasure Gardens’ tables, chairs and refreshments curve around the walls and spectacles surprise throughout the night; in the hidden ‘Shrine’ the grand piano plays for those in a reflective mood; and in the jewel of the Carnival crown, the hand decorated ‘Tent Of Miracles’, a new show can be seen every ten minutes. This Festival experience will linger on in your dreams long after the Carnival is over.

WARNING Nudity, Adult Concepts, Smoking & Smoke Effects, Strobe Effects, Loud Music

Please Note: Under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian

Created by Moira Finucane & Jackie SmithFeaturing the work of David Anderson, Jeanne Brown, Rachel Burke, Catherine Carmody, Shirley Cattunar, Julian Chapple, Carolyn Connors, Yvette Coppersmith, Paul Cordeiro, Maude Davey, Margaret Dobson, Cathy Drummond, Holly Durant, Madeline Farrugia, Christopher Green, Ben Harmer, Monique Harvey, The Sisters Hayes (Christina, Esther & Rebecca), Derek Ives, Caroline Lee, Toni Lamond, Heidrun Lohr, Brian Lucas, Lois Olney, Peta Murray, Marko Respondeck, Jess Perry, Harriet Ritchie, Betty Siemers, Lin Tobias, Yumi Umiumare, Azaria Universe, Timothy Webb, Darrin Verhagen

Event Information

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane

PreviewsWed 6 Oct at 7pm Thu 7 Oct at 7pm & 9pm

Festival SeasonFri 8 Oct at 6pm & 8pm Sat 9, Fri 15, Sat 16, Fri 22 & Sat 23 Oct at 6pm, 8pm & 10pm Sun 10 & 17 Oct at 4pm, 6pm & 8pm Tue 12 – Thu 14 & Tue 19 – Thu 21 Oct at 7pm & 9pm

Session open for 2 hours (last entry 45min after session starts)

Season runs until Sat 30 Oct

Full .......................................................$36.50*Concession (excl. Seniors) ......................$26.50*Student (excl. Backpacker Cards) ................. $25*All Preview Tickets ...................................$10 off

* Exchange your ticket for Carnival cash at the door. Buy more Carnival cash onsite to experience more Carnival delights


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au fortyfivedownstairs (03) 9662 9966 www.fortyfivedownstairs.comSupported by Sidney Myer Fund, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, fortyfivedownstairs, Sofitel Hotel for the Arts, City of Melbourne, Electrolight, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Viponds Paints

Image: The Sisters Hayes Photo: Jodie Hutchinson

World Premiere

Australia

“Seductive, utterly subversive and bursting at the seams with monstrous talent.” Sunday Age (on The Burlesque Hour)

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HIROAKI UMEDAAdapting for Distortion & Haptic

Australian Premiere

Japan

Digital sounds, neon-coloured lighting and minimalist movement combine to create a technologically-charged world controlled by Japanese performer Hiroaki Umeda

Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist Hiroaki Umeda is a choreographer, dancer, sound artist and lighting designer whose work is minimal and radical, subtle and violent, and very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots. He brings to the Festival two of his recent installations for body, sound and light, both created and performed by him. Adapting for Distortion and Haptic are not simply multimedia movement creations to be watched, but rather are immersive works that need to be felt and experienced. These abstractly-devised and strongly anti-narrative pieces continue Umeda’s exploration of visual perception and his preoccupation with the notion of mankind fading away with the advent of technological supremacy.

Distortion of time, change of movement and immobility are at the heart of Adapting for Distortion. Engulfed in computer generated sounds and optical effects, Hiroaki Umeda’s body seems to slowly fade away and go out of focus within the luminous lines and spirals, until it is a mere vibration, a shadow of its real self.

In Haptic, Hiroaki Umeda leaves behind computing and video projection to concentrate on the effects of light and colour. Beautiful bright hues shift and morph in relation to Umeda’s fluid movements creating an exquisite visual and sonic experience.

Choreographer & Dancer Hiroaki UmedaSound S20Adapting for Distortion Images S20, Bertrand Baudry Haptic Lighting S20, Hervé Villechenoux

WARNING Loud Music, Strobe Lighting

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The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre

Thu 14 – Sat 16 Oct at 8pm Sun 17 Oct at 5pm


Full .............................................................$45Groups (8+) .......................................... $40.50Concession ............................................$33.75Student .......................................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au M-Tix (03) 9685 5111 www.malthousetheatre.com.auProduced by S20

Supported by EU Japan Fest

Adapting for Distortion co-produced by Le Studio/Le Manège – Scène nationale de Maubeuge, Romaeuropa 2008

Haptic co-produced by Théâtre de Nîmes, Festival d’Automne à Paris

Associate production Quaternaire – Sarah Ford, Aïcha Boutella, Renaud Mesini

Images: Alex & Shin Yamagata

Hiroaki Umeda has also choreographed the movement for the opera Tomorrow, in a year.

See also P6

“Like a tin man with oil flowing freely through his veins, Umeda mirrored the pulsating score with an accumulation of motion.” New York Times

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“Akram Khan is an extraordinarily talented choreographer, one who can conjure near-miracles from the human form.” The Independent (UK)

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan is celebrated for the vitality and innovation he brings to cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary expression. His latest creation Vertical Road draws inspiration from universal myths of angels that symbolise ‘ascension’: the road between the earthly and the spiritual, the ‘vertical road’.

Since 2000 Akram Khan Company has provided the intriguing, enigmatic Khan with a platform for his increasingly diverse range of work through collaboration with artists from theatre, film, visual arts, music and literature. The exciting new dance theatre creation Vertical Road continues his ambition to explore the interface between different cultures and creative disciplines and sees this charismatic performer impart what

has been described as his distinctive mercurial movement, whimsy and wisdom into his multicultural mix of dancers.

For his long awaited Melbourne debut, Khan has assembled a cast of extraordinarily talented performers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East and has worked with long-term collaborator composer, Nitin Sawhney, who has created a specially commissioned score for this thought-provoking piece. Balancing a carefully crafted structure and innovative lighting, Vertical Road has a richly diverse quality, played out through each performer's different cultural interpretation of the human odyssey.

This exhilarating world premiere production promises a visually inspiring and spiritually profound experience, and is the perfect celebration of the 2010 Festival’s thread of spirituality, angels and our relationship with mortality.

Choreographer Akram KhanMusic Nitin SawhneyDancers Eulalia Ayguade Farro, Konstandina Efthymiadou, Salah El Brogy, Ahmed Khemis, Young Jin Kim, Yen-Ching Lin, Andrej Petrovic, Paul Zivkovich Lighting Jesper KonshaugCostumes Kimie NakanoDramaturge Ruth LittleResearch Jess GormleyTechnical Director Fabiana PiccioliRehearsal Director Su-Man Hsu

Akram Khan Company

VERTICAL ROADOriginal Score by Nitin Sawhney

World Premiere Season

Various

“Khan makes you shiver with pleasure.” The Daily Telegraph (UK)

“His choreography is flawless, gutsy and a joy to behold.” Time Out, Sydney

Event Information


Tue 19 – Sat 23 Oct at 8pm


Full ............................................................ $55Groups (8+) ...........................................$49.50Concession ............................................$41.25Student .......................................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au M-Tix (03) 9685 5111 www.malthousetheatre.com.auSponsored by COLAS

Co-produced by ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage), Sadler’s Wells London, Curve Theatre Leicester, Theatre de la Ville Paris, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Mercat de les Flors Barcelona

Supported by Arts Council England

Produced during residencies at Curve, Leicester and DanceEast, Ipswich

Producer Farooq Chaudhry

Images: Rachel Cherry (main image), Liu Yang (image opposite from bahok)

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Toneelgroep Amsterdam/NTGent

OPENING NIGHTBy John Cassavetes Directed by Ivo van Hove

“Exhilaratingly acted.Unexpectedly affecting and flat-out hilarious.” New York Times

“A captivating and theatrically complex work.” Theatermania

Australian Debut

The Netherlands

Toneelgroep Amsterdam brings new meaning to the term ‘in-your-face’ with its technological theatrical treatment of the 1977 John Cassavetes film classic Opening Night

Take a unique glimpse behind the scenes of a theatre company in crisis in Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s captivating multidisciplinary production Opening Night. With this production Melbourne Festival introduces Australia to the work of one of the greatest theatrical talents of the decade, the revolutionary director Ivo van Hove.

In this large-scale theatrical adaptation of John Cassavetes’ award-winning cinema classic about an ageing actress who confronts her own mortality after the sudden death of a young fan, we see a theatre company in the hectic lead-up to the opening night of a new play. And both on and off the stage things are not going well. Through an ingenious combination of performance and live video feed, fragments of the play alternate with rehearsals, conversations, conflicts and the leading lady’s increasingly hysterical breakdown.

Lighting and stage designer Jan Versweyveld’s artful set features a theatre within a theatre, creating a play within a play, with action taking place amongst the audience and some of the audience sitting on stage doubling as fictional spectators. Camera operators follow the actors on stage and simulcast the action and reactions on an assortment of large and small screens positioned around the performance space, a technique that creates real intimacy between the audience and performers. The effect also heightens the drama of this explosive play presented by one of the world’s most inventive and visionary theatre ensembles.

Performed in Dutch with English surtitles

Written by John CassavetesPerformed by Elsie de Brauw, Jacob Derwig, Daan van Dijsseldonk, Fred Goessens, Lien de Graeve, Servé Hermans, Hans Kesting, Hadewych Minis, Chris Nietvelt, Eelco Smits, Lien Wildemeersch Director Ivo van HoveSet & Lighting Designer Jan VersweyveldDramaturge Koen TacheletCostume Designer An d’Huys Sound Designer Marc Meulemans Video Designer Erik LintCamera Judith Hofland, Menke Visser

WARNING Cigarette Smoking (Tobacco Free), Nudity, Coarse Language

Event Information


Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct at 8pm


A Reserve Full ..............................................$75A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$67.50A Reserve Concession ............................ $56.25B Reserve Full ............................................. $60B Reserve Concession ..................................$45Student (A & B Res) ......................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auOpening Night is a co-production of Toneelgroep Amsterdam and NTGent

Images: Jan Versweyveld

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A play without actors, a performance without performers and a concert without musicians

Legendary German composer, director and multimedia maverick Heiner Goebbels invites audiences to enter a fascinating space full of sounds and images for his sonic performance landscape Stifters Dinge.

Inspired by the 19th Century romantic writer Aldabert Stifter, best known for his intricately detailed and mystical descriptions of nature, Stifters Dinge continues Goebbels’ trademark inquiry into theatrical mystery and otherness.

“Strange and captivating work. Magic.” New York Times

“Stifters Dinge: who cares what it is? It's terrific. Totally mesmerising.” The Telegraph (UK)

This astonishingly beautiful and contemplative work unfolds on a set of bare trees surrounded by industrial construction. Five pianos, stripped of their covers, are suspended sideways above the stage. Across this bizarre landscape, the pianos play, fog rises, rain falls, water bubbles, objects move mysteriously and are set in motion by robot-like apparatuses that create sound effects. Idealised paintings of nature magically appear. The score, performed in real-time and recorded, includes original music by Goebbels, selections from classical music, jazz works, and traditional chants from South America and Papua New Guinea. Recorded fragments of texts from Stifter’s novels, and excerpts and quotations from Claude Lévi-Strauss, William S Burroughs and Malcolm X are woven throughout. Each audience member will encounter these seemingly disparate ‘things’ and can let their imagination roam free to find their own meaning in this richly comprehensive and totally mesmerising work.

Composer & Director Heiner GoebbelsAssistant Matthias MohrLighting & Stage Designer Klaus GrünbergSound Willi BoppProgramming Hubert Machnik

WARNING Smoke Effects

Please Note: Latecomers will not be admitted to the performance

Event Information


Fri 8 – Mon 11 Oct at 2pm, 5pm & 8pm Tue 12 Oct at 2pm & 5pm


Full ............................................................ $55Group (8+) ............................................$49.50Concession ............................................$41.25Student .......................................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au M-Tix (03) 9685 5111 www.malthousetheatre.com.auCo-produced by Theatre Vidy Lausanne with T&M-Nanterre Paris, Schauspielfrankfurt, Berliner Festspiele - Spielzeit Europa, Grand Theatre Luxembourg, Teatro Stabile Turino

Co-comissioned by artangel, London

Image: Mario Del Curto

Australian Premiere

Germany Heiner Goebbels

STIFTERS DINGE(Stifter’s Things)

A powerful one-man show shining a spotlight on the colourful life of one of the nation’s near-forgotten treasures

Jack Charles is one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers. An Aboriginal elder who pioneered Koorie theatre in the early 1970s, he founded the first Aboriginal theatre company in Australia, Nindethana and was a television regular and the star of movies including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Jack is an actor, musician, potter and gifted performer, but in his nearly 70 years he has also been homeless, an addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria’s prisons. A member of the Stolen Generation, Jack has spent his life in between acting gigs caught in the addiction/crime/doing time cycle. And he lives to tell the extraordinary tale.

JACK CHARLES V THE CROWNStarring Jack CharlesPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ilbijerri Theatre Company

World Premiere

Australia

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Ilbijerri Theatre Company has teamed with writer John Romeril and Jack Charles himself to bring Jack’s entertaining and uplifting story to the stage in Jack Charles V The Crown. Jack’s constant and unswerving optimism, his generosity of spirit and his humanity shine through in this powerful one-man show, which tells the tale of a living legend’s colourful past, while also looking to the future where Jack is passionate and determined to help those heading down a destructive path. Jack Charles V The Crown is a very special theatre experience full of sensitivity, pathos and plenty of Jack’s own cheeky sense of fun. One of the great Australian stories. To celebrate Ilbijerri’s 20th anniversary, the company has joined forces with Bunjilaka at Melbourne Museum to present a retrospective exhibition of their work, from the breakthrough production of Stolen, commissioned in 1992, to this special 2010 Melbourne Festival event.

Based on the life of Uncle Jack Charles and spoken in his own words

Co-writers Jack Charles, John RomerilDirector Rachael Maza LongDramaturge John RomerilSet & Costume Designer Emily BarrieLighting Designer Danny PettingillMusical Director Nigel MacLean

WARNING Adult Concepts, Coarse Language, Cigarette Smoking (Tobacco Free)

Event Information


Tue 12 – Sat 16 Oct at 7.45pm Sat 16 & Sun 17 Oct at 2pm


Full ............................................................ $40Groups (8+) ................................................$36Concession ................................................ $30Student .......................................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auIlbijerri Theatre Company is supported by the Australia Council, Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne. With assistance from the Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and Arts House.

Image: Bindi Cole

Photographer Bindi Cole has also curated the Nyah-bunyar (Temple) exhibition at the Arts Centre, Gallery 1

See also P50

Supported by

2010 Melbourne Festival Patrons Circle

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A spell-binding marathon solo performance of three Beckett literary masterpieces

Samuel Beckett reinvented 20th Century drama and literature. As Waiting For Godot heralded a new way of looking at the stage, the great trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, forced us to reconsider the novel. Irish theatre company Gare St Lazare Players Ireland have adapted Beckett’s seminal fictional trilogy into a three-hour tour de force performance that vividly captures the subtlety, humour and despair of this literary masterpiece and masterfully brings the original works to life on the stage.

Regarded by many critics as the greatest living Beckett interpreter, Conor Lovett gives an astonishingly effortless performance of the novels with their wealth of Beckett's celebrated signature effects – rhetorical shapeliness, scabrous wit, poetic lyricism, shocking crudity and piercing insight. This magnificent rendition of the three works in one performance represents a rare opportunity to experience these masterpieces in the context in which they were written.

Director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett have worked together on bringing nearly 20 Beckett titles to audiences around the world. The couple’s work has been hailed for its success in making the work fresh and accessible while highlighting the humour, humanity and

integrity that is the hallmark of Samuel Beckett’s writing. The Beckett Trilogy is an engrossing and enthralling performance from a consummate theatre performer.

Director Judy Hegarty Lovett Performer Conor Lovett Text Compiled by Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett from the novels Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

WARNING Not recommended for children under 16

“Kill to get a ticket.” The Scotsman

“The result is a cold, hard jewel of a performance, an absolutely riveting experience that is worth dropping everything to encounter.” Irish Times

Event Information


Thu 14 – Sat 16 Oct at 8pm Sun 17 Oct at 1pm

3hr with interval

A Reserve Full ............................................. $55A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$49.50A Reserve Concession .............................$41.25B Reserve Full ............................................. $44B Reserve Concession ................................. $33Student (A & B Res) ......................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auThe texts were written intended to be read and are presented here with the kind permission of The Estate of Samuel Beckett and Curtis Brown Australia.

International touring with the support of Culture Ireland

Image: Dylan Vaughan

Gare St Lazare Players Ireland

THE BECKETT TRILOGYMolloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Australian Premiere

Ireland

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What happens when a convincing optimist and a committed pessimist decide to work together?

An optimist and a pessimist walk onto a stage... No it’s not the start of the joke, but rather the theatrical presentation of the quirky social research project An Anthology of Optimism created by Jacob Wren, Canadian writer and maker of eccentric performances, and Pieter De Buysser, Belgian writer, philosopher and theatre-maker.

This intriguing project asks: What sort of meaning can optimism have today in this era of heightened terrorism awareness and global warming concerns? Together these two artists, the optimist and the pessimist, set out to find the answer. They began by sending a letter to well-known authors, artists, thinkers, scientists, politicians and business identities all over the world, who in turn responded with photos, texts, songs, movies and other objects that represented optimism to them. And now it’s Melbourne’s turn, as the international responses are combined with Australia’s views to provide a fascinating and at times hilarious framework for the live presentation of An Anthology of Optimism.

The setting for this engaging and entertaining lecture-performance is simple: just Wren and De Buysser alone on stage, sharing the contributions they received with the aid of an overhead projector and using them as a prompt

for their own whimsical yet thought-provoking research into how critical optimism might function in our contemporary world.

Created by Pieter De Buysser & Jacob Wren Slides Mathilde Geens

Event Information


Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct at 7.45pm Sat 23 Oct at 5pm


Full .............................................................$45Groups (8+) .......................................... $40.50Concession ............................................$33.75Student .......................................................$25


the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.auProduced by CAMPO

Co-Produced by Linz 2009 European Capital Of Culture; Brut, Wien; Kunstenfestivaldesarts 09, Brussels; and Camp X, Kopenhagen

Images: © Phile Deprez

Pieter De Buysser & Jacob Wren/CAMPO

AN ANTHOLOGY OF OPTIMISM

Australian Premiere

Belgium/Canada

“A fruitful and amusing dialectic between opposing points of view and between two utterly likeable and engaging people.” British Theatre Guide

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Ranters Theatre

INTIMACYPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Malthouse Theatre

World Premiere

Australia

Intimacy is born in the strangest of places

Intimacy is the latest creation from the multi-award winning Melbourne-based ensemble Ranters Theatre. It begins with a man stepping out of his apartment into the chaos of a busy night. His aim: nothing more than to speak to strangers, to meet new people, to flirt with the simple differences any urban street may throw up. The result: an evening of human connection between people whose collision is as profound as it is happenstance.

Following the success of the hyper-real two-hander Holiday in 2008, Malthouse Theatre has joined with Melbourne Festival to commission this exhilarating world premiere. Intimacy extends Ranters’ unique theatrical vision through a thought-provoking exploration of what the most humble of interactions can reveal to us.

“Their interactions are so completely in the moment, so thrillingly real and beautifully realised, that you will feel like a voyeur. Privileged. Awed.” Herald Sun (on The Wall)

Devised & Directed by Adriano Cortese Text by Raimondo Cortese Set & Costume Designer Anna Tregloan Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti Sound Designer David Franzke Video Designer Keri Light Company Manager Alison Halit Co-Devised & Performed by Beth Buchanan, Paul Lum, Patrick Moffatt

Event Information

The CUB Malthouse, Beckett Theatre

PreviewsFri 1, Sat 2 & Wed 6 Oct at 7.30pm Tue 5 Oct at 7pm

Festival SeasonThu 7 – Sat 9, Wed 13 – Sat 16 & Wed 20 – Sat 23 Oct at 7.30pm Tue 12 & Tue 19 Oct at 7pm Sat 16 & Sat 23 Oct at 2pm Thu 21 Oct at 1pm


Preview/MatineeFull ............................................................ $40Groups (10+) & Seniors .............................. $34Concession (excl. Seniors) ........................... $30Student .......................................................$23

SeasonFull .............................................................$49Groups (10+) & Seniors ...............................$42Concession (excl. Seniors) ............................$37Student .......................................................$23


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au M-Tix (03) 9685 5111 www.malthousetheatre.com.auA Melbourne International Arts Festival and Malthouse Theatre Commission.

The development of Intimacy was supported by Arts House, in the CultureLAB, with the assistance of Arts Victoria

Image: Garth Oriander

Fawlty Towers meets Sartre's No Exit in the world premiere of this absurd look at life at the crossroads

If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town in a crummy two-star hotel. The service is churlish, the lift doesn’t work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But keep your expectations low, really low, and, who knows? – you might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out.

Multi-award winning writer Daniel Keene is one of the most performed Australian playwrights outside of the country. His latest work, Life Without Me is an eccentric fable about taking up residence and trying to move on. Keene creates a genteel purgatory out of a small rundown hotel with warmth, sympathy and a great deal of humour.

Director Peter EvansSet & Costume Designer Dale FergusonComposer Jethro WoodwardCast includes Brian Lipson, Robert Menzies, Deidre Rubenstein, Greg Stone, Kerry Walker

WARNING Smoke Effects, Mild Coarse Language

Event Information

The MTC Theatre, Sumner

PreviewsSat 9 & Mon 11 – Wed 13 Oct at 8pm Wed 13 Oct at 2pm

Festival SeasonFri 15, Wed 20, Thu 21 & Fri 22 Oct at 8pm Sat 16 & Sat 23 Oct at 4pm & 8.30pm Mon 18 & Tue 19 Oct at 6.30pm Wed 20 Oct at 1pm

Full season runs until Sun 21 Nov Visit www.mtc.com.au for details

2hr with interval

Sat Eve Full .............................................$83.15Mon–Fri Eve & Sat 4pm Full ....................$78.85Mon–Fri Eve & Sat 4pm Groups (10+) ... $68.25Mon–Fri Eve & Sat 4pm Concession*...... $68.25Preview & Wed 1pm Full .......................... $61.10Preview & Wed 1pm Groups (10+) ......... $54.20Preview & Wed 1pm Concession* ............$48.10Youth (Under 30) (all shows) ........................ $30

*Excludes Seniors


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au The MTC Theatre Box Office (03) 8688 0800 www.mtc.com.auMelbourne Theatre Company is a department of the University of Melbourne

Image: Earl Carter

LIFE WITHOUT MEBy Daniel KeeneProduced by Melbourne Theatre Company in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

“Daniel Keene is indisputably one of Australia’s most poetic, thoughtful and probing playwrights.” Sydney Morning Herald

World Premiere

Australia

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A fascinating and enchanting mixed media sound installation created from the genetic materials of thousands of individuals but activated by you

Within the cavernous space of the Meat Market, three microscopes sit on platforms waiting for the audience to bring them to life. Hidden within each microscope is a tiny animation, an enticing assembly of images and words that we use to describe ourselves and each other. By approaching the platforms, audience members activate their own captivating sound and light experience that is created from the viewer’s height and posture. Just as our genetic makeup determines what makes us individual, how we move as individuals affects how we experience the intriguing work epi-thet.

Inspired by an ANAT Synapse Residency with Dr Shane Grey at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, musicians and composers Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey have been working since 2008 on the sonification of research data, making it possible to hear as well as see a representation of the genetic process.

epi-thet uses data from public domain genetic databases to create sound and image. Using an original algorithm that maps the data from the genetic process to sound parameters and from simple information that is drawn from posture, a composition unique to each individual is created. The audience becomes the conductor of this extraordinary composition contemplating the exquisite beauty in science.

Created by Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey & Jesse Stevens

Event Information

Arts House, Meat Market

Tue 19 – Sat 23 Oct 1pm – 9pm

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.auSupported by ANAT Synapse Residency, Garvan Institute of Medical Research & Experimenta

With assistance from the Arts House In Space program

Image: Dean Petersen

Supported by

epi-thetMadeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey & Jesse StevensPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Arts House

en masseGenevieve Lacey and Marc SilverPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Arts House


Australia/UK

A sensual experience that explores survival in a complex and chaotic world

Audiences are invited into the heart of a spherical space where dream-like images are projected all around. A musician plays live, her solo set against an electroacoustic backdrop realised by some of the world's most respected sound artists. In the midst of this evolving world, you lounge back and immerse yourself in the exquisite sights and sounds.

Inspired by experiences and ideas based within nature, en masse is the result of a collaboration between Australian recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey and UK filmmaker Marc Silver. Part concert, part film, part installation, this unique and mesmerising Festival experience is made complete by the soulful sounds of Lacey performing live, but can also be experienced as a beautiful sonic and visual installation.

Performance by Genevieve Lacey Film by Marc SilverMusical Collaborators Steve Adam, Taylor Deupree, Christian Fennesz, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, dj olive

WARNING Loud Music, Haze & Strobe Effects, Low Seating, Extreme Black Out

Event Information

Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne

InstallationWed 20 – Thu 21 Oct 1pm – 6pm Fri 22 – Sat 23 Oct 1pm – 4.30pm

Live PerformanceTue 19 – Sat 23 Oct at 6.30pm & 8pm Fri 22 & Sat 23 Oct at 5pm

30min no interval

Installation FREE

Live PerformanceFull .............................................................$25Concession ................................................ $20


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au Arts House (03) 9322 3713 www.artshouse.com.auSupported by Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria and City of Melbourne

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Major Festivals Initiative managed by the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Adelaide Festival and Sydney Festival. Developed in the CultureLAB.

Produced by Arts House, a City of Melbourne contemporary arts initiative.

Image: Famous Visual Services

Supported by

World Premiere

Australia

“en masse was a hypnotic blend of music, sound and film, experienced while laying on lounges in a darkened room. Bliss.” The Weekend Australian

“Lacey is an inspiring performer who lights up the stage with her fevered cascades of notes and soulful lyricism.” Sydney Morning Herald

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Adès @ ANAMPresented by The Australian National Academy of Music in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Thomas Adès directs musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music in a program of his own music and of music close to his heart.

Adès Les Baricades Mistérieuses Couperin Les Baricades Mistérieuses Adès Three studies from Couperin Rameau Dardanus: Suite Couperin L’Apotheose de Corelli Adès Chamber Symphony

Conductor & Harpsichord Thomas AdèsPerformed by Orchestra of the Academy

Event Information

Australian National Academy of Music, South Melbourne Town Hall210 Bank St, South Melbourne

Tue 12 Oct at 7pm


Full ................................................. $53.95Concession .................................... $28.95


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au

Pateras & AdèsPresented by The Australian National Academy of Music in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Michael Kieran Harvey, Anthony Pateras and musicians of the Academy perform Thomas Adès’ Living Toys and the world premiere of String Quartet by Pateras. Visit www.anam.com.au for repertoire details.

Event Information

Australian National Academy of Music South Melbourne Town Hall210 Bank St, South Melbourne

Thu 21 Oct at 7pm


Full ................................................. $53.95Concession .................................... $28.95



Thomas Adès & the Calder QuartetDescribed by the New Yorker as “one of the most imposing figures in contemporary music” Thomas Adès is renowned as both a composer and performer. For this concert he joins innovative US string group, the Calder Quartet, who have a growing reputation for stretching the boundaries of classical music. This delightful musical program features Adès performing his Piano Quintet, which was initially commissioned by Melbourne Festival.

Adès ArcadianaAdès Darknesse VisibleAdès Three Mazurkas

Stravinsky Souvenir d’une marche bocheStravinsky Valse pour les enfantsStravinsky Piano-Rag-MusicNancarrow Three Canons for URSULAAdès Piano Quintet

Piano Thomas Adès Violin Benjamin JacobsonViolin Andrew BulbrookViola Jonathan Moerschel‘Cello Eric Byers

Event Information

Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

Sun 10 Oct at 6pm


A Reserve Full ............................................. $50A Reserve Groups (8+) ................................$45A Reserve Concession .............................$37.50B Reserve Full ............................................. $40B Reserve Concession ................................. $30Student (A & B Res) ......................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre (03) 9699 3333 www.melbournerecital.com.auImage: Maurice Foxall

The Calder Quartet will also perform a solo concert on Mon 11 Oct at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

See also P32

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In a first for Melbourne Festival, one of Britain’s greatest living composers undertakes a residency with three very special concerts set to delight lovers of fine music.

Thomas Adès regularly works with the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies and festivals. For this Festival event Adès conducts the internationally renowned Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing some of his most acclaimed work. The program includes the violin concerto Concentric Paths, written for, and performed here by, award-winning violinist Anthony Marwood, and the recent In Seven Days Piano Concerto with Moving Image, an exquisite multimedia piece for piano (played by Nicolas Hodges), orchestra and video screen. A collaborative work between Thomas Adès and video artist Tal Rosner, the piece is described by the artists as a video-ballet in seven movements that follows the Genesis tale of creation. The visuals and the music tell the story in a set of abstract variations, each new element – light/darkness, sea/sky, heavenly bodies, plants, creatures – represented in a stunning sequence of musical and visual creations.

Adès Overture from ‘The Tempest’Sibelius Orchestral Suite #2 from ‘The Tempest’Adès Violin Concerto: Concentric Paths

Adès/Rosner (visuals) In Seven Days Piano Concerto with Moving Image

Melbourne Symphony OrchestraConductor Thomas AdèsPiano Nicolas Hodges Violin Anthony MarwoodVideo Artist Tal Rosner

Event Information


Fri 15 Oct at 7.30pm


A Reserve Full ............................................. $85A Reserve Groups (8+) ...........................$76.50A Reserve Concession .............................$63.75B Reserve Full ............................................. $68B Reserve Concession ..................................$51Student (A & B Res) ......................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre (03) 9699 3333 www.melbournerecital.com.auImage: Tal Rosner

UK/Australia

Thomas Adès & Melbourne Symphony OrchestraPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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“Treasured idol of the classical new music scene.” Daily Telegraph (UK)

“One left the hall lost in a kaleidoscope of colour, touched by an exquisitely decorative experience.” The Sunday Times (UK)

Whether they’re performing with Thomas Adès, party rocker Andrew W K or appearing on David Letterman, USA’s Calder Quartet is blazing new ground

Inspired by the innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet is renowned for performing traditional quartet repertoire as well as partnering with modern composers, emerging musicians and performers across genres.

The quartet members were originally drawn together by their love of Austro-German composers like Haydn and Beethoven but have since developed long-standing relationships with contemporary composers such as Terry Riley and Christopher Rouse as well as Thomas Adès, whose music they have performed and recorded to great acclaim.

While maintaining their roots in the classics, the Calder Quartet have expanded their repertoire in recent years to include more contemporary music, new commissions and collaborations. Music lovers are in for a real treat with this special solo show.

Schubert String Quartet No 15 in G Major

Stravinsky Three Pieces for String QuartetJanácek String Quartet No 2 Intimate Letters

Violin Benjamin JacobsonViolin Andrew BulbrookViola Jonathan Moerschel‘Cello Eric Byers

Event Information


Mon 11 Oct at 8pm


A Reserve Full ............................................ $50A Reserve Groups (8+) ...............................$45A Reserve Concession ............................$37.50B Reserve Full ............................................ $40B Reserve Concession ................................ $30Student (A & B Res) ..................................... $25


CALDER QUARTET

Australian Debut

USA

“Only the stars are the limit, as the Calder takes its place as one of America's most satisfying – and most enterprising – quartets.” Los Angeles Times

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Australian Art OrchestraSOAK + THE HOLLOW AIRPresented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Australian Art Orchestra in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

The Australian Art Orchestra is a unique ensemble of improvising musicians. The diverse group is committed to performing new Australian music and brings to the Festival two new multimedia works, including the world premiere of Soak, in a concert to excite contemporary music lovers.

Soak is a live music and film experience that slowly unfolds through compositional elements influenced by artists such as Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, Brian Eno, Radiohead, Dust Brothers and Miles Davis. Add to this a visual component manipulated by film artist Louise Curham in real time using multiple projectors and screens, and you have an aural and visual exploration of sound that breaks down distinctions between musical genres and incorporates elements of ambient music, electronica, contemporary art music, jazz and rock.

The Hollow Air features a collaboration curated by Philip Slater between members of the Australian Art Orchestra and shakuhachi player Riley Lee and incorporates sound projection and real time digital manipulation.

Performed by Australian Art OrchestraThe Hollow Air Curator Phillip SlaterGuest Performer Riley Lee (Shakuhachi)Soak Composer Alister SpenceFilm Artist Louise Curham

Event Information


Sat 9 Oct at 8pm


A Reserve Full ..............................................$62A Reserve Concession ..................................$57B Reserve Full ..............................................$52B Reserve Concession ..................................$47C Reserve Full ............................................ $38C Reserve Concession ................................ $35


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre (03) 9699 3333 www.melbournerecital.com.au

World & Australian Premiere

Australia

Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre (03) 9699 3333 www.melbournerecital.com.auPhoto: Tyler Boye

The Calder Quartet will also perform with Thomas Adès on Sun 10 Oct at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

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Seventh Heaven

Looking for divine inspiration this Festival? Well, the art may provide this, but this year we’re also giving you the chance to mingle with celestial Festival artists and enjoy the nectar of the gods at our divine lounge venue Seventh Heaven.

Seventh Heaven is the 2010 Festival’s pre- and post-show haven for audiences and artists. Grab a drink, meet up with friends and kick back in the specially designed area in and around the Arts Centre Curve Bar after a jam-packed evening of entertainment or prior to getting amongst the Festival action.

Event Information

the Arts Centre, Curve Bar

Fri 8 – Sat 23 Oct Fri & Sat 4pm – 3am Mon – Thu 4pm – 1am Closed Sun


Image: Carla Gottgens

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A Matter of Life and Death

A.R.A.B. (Anti Racism Action Band Youth Ensemble)NORTHERN TRAXPresented by Anti Racism Action Band in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Body percussion, belly dance, spoken word, krump, hip hop, jerk, dance hall, parkour, instrumental composition, vocal harmony and video morph and distort as the crew from Anti Racism Action Band deliver uplifting, confronting and interactive performances, based on their own lives in Melbourne’s Zone 2, to city commuters.

Northern Trax is a series of performance installations where cultural tradition harmonises, collides and fuses with contemporary youth culture. See this electrifying 200-strong ensemble from 50 cultural backgrounds let loose on the escalators, stairwells, platforms and underground subways of Flinders St Station. Take part in one of the nightly secret installations that start at the Platform Artists Space at Flinders St Station or join the Northern Trax Finale on Saturday 23 Oct, a huge moving installation starting at Signal.

A.R.A.B is a Victorian Arabic Social Services program that began in 2004 as a creative response to the racial vilification of young Arabic people in Melbourne’s north. Since then, this exciting ensemble has performed to over 70,000 people and toured everywhere from the Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre to the Gotham Comedy Club New York.

For full performance details for Northern Trax please visit www.a.r.a.b-vass.com from 1 October.

Program & Production Manager Marline ZaibakArtistic Co-Director Kate GillickArtistic Co-Director & Media Design Jeremy Angerson Composer & Musical Director Irine VelaDance Artists Melissa Cristina, John Grey, Deon Nuku, Cat Sweeney Rap Artist & MC Phil Pandongan

Northern Trax Random Installations

Escalators, stairs, platforms and underground subways at Flinders St Station

Mon 18 – Sat 23 Oct

FREE

Northern Trax Secret Installations

Meet at Degraves Lane (entrance to Platform Artist Spaces)

Tue 19 – Fri 22 Oct at 7pm

$5

A.R.A.B (03) 9359 3670

Northern Trax Finale

Meet at Signal, Northbank, behind Flinders St Station

Sat 23 Oct at 7pm

$5

A.R.A.B (03) 9359 3670Supported by City of Melbourne and Arts Victoria

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POP-UP PROJECT Join us for a very special Melbourne Festival experience as we reveal the extraordinary rhythm of the everyday

Have you always wanted to take part in the Melbourne Festival? Well here’s your chance. You or your group can get involved and help create an exciting and surprising Festival event. The Pop-Up Project is a playful new initiative set to infiltrate the city on Saturday 16 October. And we’re looking for participants from all over Melbourne to jump on board and make this special one-off event come to life.

Join the Pop-Up Project Squad, take part in a series of workshops in the lead-up to this year’s Festival and create delightful collisions and unexpected happenings in the secret spaces of our city.

Register yourself or your group online at www.melbournefestival.com.au to be part of the Pop-Up Project.

Event Information

Various sites around the city

Sat 16 Oct

FREE

Register at www.melbournefestival.com.au to join the Pop Up Project SquadA collaboration between one step at a time like this, Stephanie Lake and you

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Artists In ConversationThe daytime Melbourne Festival Artists In Conversation series allows you behind the scenes access into the ideas and inspiration of the artists involved in this year’s Festival. Join moderator Corrie Perkin for a series of intimate discussions on personal themes in the work, art and lives of our Festival artists.

Sat 9 Oct at 1pm Restless imagination: crossing boundaries and forms Featuring Heiner Goebbels (composer/director, Stifters Dinge)

Tue 12 Oct at 1pm Discover some of the secrets of the Festival Program Featuring Brett Sheehy, Vivia Hickman and artists from the 2010 Melbourne Festival

Thu 14 Oct at 1pm Reconciling Indigenous spirituality with contemporary lifeFeaturing Bindi Cole and artists from Nyah-bunyar (Temple)

Mon 18 Oct at 1pm Mental landscapes: intimate theatre on stageFeaturing director Judy Hegarty Lovett, performer Conor Lovett (The Beckett Trilogy) and Adriano Cortese (Ranters Theatre, Intimacy)

Thu 21 Oct at 1pm The exquisite beauty in scienceFeaturing Ralf Richardt Strøbech (Hotel Pro Forma, Tomorrow, in a year), Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey (ep i-thet) and Dr Shane Grey (Garvan Institute of Medical Research)

Fri 22 Oct at 1pm Songs for the end of days: songwriters and their personal journey with music Featuring artists from Seven Songs to Leave Behind

EVENT INFORMATION

Federation Square, BMW Edge

Sat 9, Tue 12, Thu 14, Mon 18, Thu 21 & Fri 22 Oct at 1pm

1hr

FREE


Wheeler Centre Discussions: From Joie de Vivre to Deadly Intent Over six evenings the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne's new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas comes to the Festival with big conversations about big questions. Discussion of ideas never felt so much like a matter of life and death.

Mon 11 Oct at 6pm Ethics and MoralityA panel of philosophers and ethicists unpick the ethical decisions and moral judgements that surround life.

Wed 13 Oct at 6pm Belief and SpiritualityPeople of faith (and people without) come together to reflect on how their beliefs shape their attitudes to the afterlife.

Thu 14 Oct at 6pm The Written DeathSome of our finest writers discuss tackling death and mortality on the page: how do they tread the line between the universal and the individual experience?

Mon 18, Wed 20 & Thu 21 Oct at 6pm Spotlight SessionsThese three sessions shine the spotlight on three high-profile writers and thinkers, their work and their attitudes to life and death.

EVENT INFORMATION

Federation Square, BMW Edge

Wheeler Centre Panel DiscussionsMon 11, Wed 13 & Thu 14 Oct at 6pm

FREE

Wheeler Centre Spotlight SessionsMon 18, Wed 20 & Thu 21 Oct at 6pm

Full ............................................................ $20Concession .................................................$12

Not eligible for Discount Packages

www.wheelercentre.com

Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Wheeler Centre

This series of lectures and artist discussions focuses on some of the big issues in life, art and ideas. Join us for considered conversation from the spiritual to the corporeal, from the personal to the philosophical.

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After appearances around the world with The Black Arm Band and roles in Jindabyne, Australia and The Sapphires, the mesmerising Ursula Yovich brings her soulful one-woman cabaret show Magpie Blues to the Beck’s Festival Bar. This moving musical account of growing up in the Northern Territory with a mother from Arnhem Land and a Serbian father features a mix of Yovich’s own new songs and musical influences from her past (including a killer medley of blockbuster hits from the 1980s).

Drawing upon her unique cultural background, Magpie Blues is inspired by Ursula Yovich’s totem, the magpie, a songbird whose black and white feathers reflect the black and white heritage of Yovich herself. Supported by her four-piece band, Yovich tells a story infused with sadness, love, separation and dislocated cultural identity. Magpie Blues is certainly not all blue. It’s an entertaining musical adventure about following dreams, about belonging everywhere and nowhere, and ultimately about finding a unique and powerful voice.

Event Information

the Forum Theatre

Mon 11 – Wed 13 Oct at 8.30pm


Full ............................................................ $30Groups (8+) ................................................$27Concession ........................................... $22.50


Image: Kurt Sneddon

UrsUla YovIch Magpie Blues

“One of the most powerful performers on the Australian stage.” Weekend Australian

“A rich, complex and engaging experience that reveals the depth of her extraordinary talent. An evening to remember.” Adelaide Advertiser

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Beck’s Festival Bar transforms Melbourne’s iconic Forum Theatre into a house of worship for a series of performances designed to respond to themes of Shamanism, cult bands and music as religious experience.

Presented over seven nights throughout the Festival, the program reveals an underlying rhythm divine, which links contemporary, alternative music making from around the world. From the omnivorous, free-ranging aural play of Japan’s Boredoms, to the extreme power of Sri Lanka’s preeminent metal band Stigmata and the psychedelic surf rock of Dengue Fever, this series draws out the cathartic experience music provides for makers and lovers alike.

Please Note: Entry to the venue is restricted to persons over the age of 18 or persons under the age of 18 who are accompanied by their parent or legal guardian (one guardian per person required).

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Event Information

the Forum Theatre

Sat 9 Oct Thu 14 – Sat 16 Oct Thu 21 – Sat 23 Oct Doors open 9pm

ALL TICKETS $20



Image: Tin & Ed

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S A T 9 O C T

B O R E D O M S J a p a n

For more than two decades, Japan’s iconoclastic experimental music unit, Boredoms, has redefined words like ‘fringe’ and ‘frontier’. Formed in 1986 in Osaka by EYE, the band has become known around the world for their noise, chaos, tribal experimentation, remixing, trance-inducing feats of rhythmic intensity, line-up changes, collaborations, and doing whatever they want regardless of trends and fashion. For the Festival the latest Boredoms incarnation brings intense and otherworldly drumming sounds with this special Melbourne version of their legendary Boadrum performance.

K E S B A N D A u s t r a l i a

Supporting Boredoms is the ever-changing, cerebral all-instrumental art-rock indie outfit Kes Band. Former Bird Blobs bassist and a contributor to the Melbourne quartet Mum Smokes, Karl Scullin, has carved himself a handsome niche as Kes, a clearing house for his varied musical pursuits. The latest Kes Band line up features a high-energy, aggressive sound with prominent instrumental interludes and will be a one-off special show for the Festival.

B U M C R E E K A u s t r a l i a

Relocated Canberra freakoids Bum Creek have been making amazing musical weirdness for the last five years. They now live in Melbourne and turn every live show into a triumphant lurching mess of synth squiggles, kraut percussion and vocal gibberish.

Image: Boredoms

S T I G M A T A S r i L a n k a

Extreme metal ensemble Stigmata are set to become the first ever Sri Lankan band to tour Australia. Until the late 1990s Sri Lankan popular music consisted of film music, Hindi pop and imitations of western pop. That is until Stigmata and their provocative, powerful sound burst onto the scene in 2003. Growing up in Colombo after years of civil war, sourcing instruments and rehearsal space was a difficult and expensive task. With few live music venues in the city, Stigmata single-handedly built a scene that now produces some of south-east Asia's most promising young metal bands.

B L A R K E B A Y E R / B L A C K W I D O W A u s t r a l i a

Blarke Bayer is Ben Andrews (My Disco) and Robert MacManus (Grey Daturas, Monarch) is Black Widow. Ascending from this sacred earth under a full moon on 31 October 2006, the gods gave birth to these experimental psych lords, an instrumental drum and guitar duo who re-create the genius hypnosis of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii.

Image: Stigmata

T H U 1 4 O C T

B O R E D O M SK E S B A N D , B U M C R E E K

S T I G M A T AB L A R K E B A Y E R / B L A C K W I D O W

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S A G E F R A N C I S U S A

Adored by many, reviled by a few, but never ignored and always essential, US rapper Sage Francis has emerged as the reigning agent provocateur of hip hop. Inspired at a young age by the revolutionary sounds of Public Enemy, Francis first caused a stir in 1996 with his self-circulated mix tapes and has since developed into a fearless social critic. His extraordinary rhyming skills are used to explore such unconventional and wide ranging topics as sexual identity, death, mental illness, corporate greed and most recently religion.

D E X T E R A u s t r a l i a

For the past decade four-time DMC Australian champ Dexter has constantly challenged the perception of DJing and turntablism. His love of raw sound and dance, alongside his collection of samples of Caribbean folk, Indigenous Asian-Pacific music, Middle Eastern jazz and North African rhythms, ensures he creates unprecedented sounds. His party sets drop the old with the new, the classics with the obscure, with each record seamlessly bleeding into the next, building up into an atmosphere of joy and madness.

H O R R O R S H O W A u s t r a l i a

Horrorshow are two 21-year-old inner west Sydneysiders: Adit produces the music and Solo handles vocals. Together they bring the energetic optimism and anxiousness of post-school pre-mortgage times to life, with truly vivid poetics. Their lush and evocative samples and flowing rhymes have ensured they’ve built up a loyal and expanding fan base in a very short time.

Image: Sage Francis by Anthony Saint James

F R I 1 5 O C T

D E N G U E F E V E R U S A / C a m b o d i a

Dengue Fever's psychedelic take on the Cambodian pop sounds of the ‘60s makes them a unique rock'n'roll success story and has left critics rummaging through the thesaurus looking for new superlatives to describe their sound. Started by two American brothers in 2001, the addition of Cambodian songstress Chhom Nimol ensures a pop fusion that retains its Cambodian roots while forging its own psychedelic sound. The band’s experimental surf sounds and spaghetti western twang have seen them featured in a number of film and television shows including City of Ghosts, Broken Flowers, True Blood and Weeds.

T H E B R E A K A u s t r a l i a

In a union to delight music fans, Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey have joined with bass player Brian Ritchie of US group Violent Femmes to form the new surf rock outfit The Break. With rolling toms and reverb on full throttle, The Break are set to take music lovers on a trip to the outer limits of surf, beyond the break, in a high octane performance that is powerful, dynamic and a whole lot of fun.

J O H N N I E A N D T H E J O H N N I E J O H N N I E S

A u s t r a l i a

With wild go-go, surf and experimental beatnik beats direct to you from Vegas via California and Collingwood, Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies kick off this Festival surfing safari. Lead by Pope Johnnie Paul II on electric guitar and layered with Hammond organ played in hot pants, these cosmic surf riders will transport you to an exotic rock’n’roll dance party.

Image: Dengue Fever

S A T 1 6 O C T

S A G E F R A N C I SD E X T E R , H O R R O R S H O W

D E N G U E F E V E RT H E B R E A K , J O H N N I E A N D T H E J O H N N I E J O H N N I E S

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L O W U S A

Since 1994, US band Low have released a steady stream of critically acclaimed albums that blend minimalist soundscapes and the subtle beauty of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker's vocal harmonies. Described as a soundtrack for post-traumatic shock, the band's live performances have induced a variety of responses from triumphant applause to silent religious adulation. Returning to Australia for a special one-off performance, these stalwarts of the American independent music scene will drench the Forum with their trademark perpetual reverb.

P I K E L E T A u s t r a l i a

Starting out as a hardcore kid and a drummer with serious chops in local bands such as Baseball and True Radical Miracle, Evelyn Morris’ debut album Pikelet was decidedly un-hardcore, made with accordion, a floor tom and loop pedals. Performing as Pikelet, her second album Stem was recorded with producer Casey Rice (Tortoise, Sea And Cake, Liz Phair) and is an incredible expansion of vision. Now a dynamic four-piece live band, Pikelet brings a cosmic space-prog edge that infiltrates Morris' wide-eyed style with mind-expanding results.

P O N Z U I S L A N D A u s t r a l i a

Inspired by utopian visions of an exotic technopolis, composer/producer Bradley Elias created tropical synth-pop project Ponzu Island. Elias and his cohort of eight technologically diverse instrumentalists meld exotica with oriental pop melodies, lush chords and live electronics for a sound to send audiences on a FantAsian voyage into the future.

Image: Low

T H U 2 1 O C T

T H E D R O N E S A u s t r a l i a

With a sound all their own, The Drones deliver an aural assault like few bands can. Inspired by a multitude of artists and musical genres including Hank Williams, Townes van Zandt, Black Flag and Suicide, The Drones have evolved into something that at times sounds like alt-country, dirge riddled blues, garage punk or straight-ahead rock‘n'roll.

Live, The Drones create a melancholy wrestle between violent guitars and front man Gareth Liddiard’s incendiary voice as it lights up his angular poetry.

P. K . 1 4 C h i n a

Making their Australian debut is one of the most influential bands on the Chinese indie scene. P.K.14 occupies a space in Chinese music that might be analogous to that of Talking Heads or Television in the New York of the 1970s. In their native Mandarin they sing of disaffected Chinese youth, but their pared down sounds, explosive energy and passion certainly need no translation. As Time Magazine put it after their sell-out 2009 US tour: “Loud, raw and searching – theirs is the sound of modern China.”

T H E T W E R P S A u s t r a l i a

Loveable Melbourne scallywags The Twerps make incredibly warm-hearted pop music, low on flash but high on feeling. They hark back to ‘50s rock’n’roll, ‘90s lo-fi, and ‘80s New Zealand pop, but the big beautiful mess they make of their influences is all their own.

Image: The Drones by Tony Mott

L O WP I K E L E T , P O N Z U I S L A N D

F R I 2 2 O C T

T H E D R O N E SP. K . 1 4 , T H E T W E R P S

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S A T 2 3 O C T

M A R I A C H I E L B R O N X U S A

LA-based punk band The Bronx, bring their alter ego, Mariachi El Bronx to Melbourne. Embracing the other enduring soundtrack of southern Californian life, the band touches on many facets of traditional Mexican mariachi music, including trumpet, multiple guitars and silver studded charro outfits. While Mariachi El Bronx started as a means of turning the electric goes acoustic performance garbage on its head, the band soon realised they had enough material for a full length album. Known for their blistering live shows their latest incarnation, while not quite as chaotic, is still punk at heart.

E A G L E & T H E W O R M A u s t r a l i a

Eagle & the Worm is the brain child of Jarrad Brown, who has spent the last ten years collaborating with a number of bands including the Incredible Dead Goons, Custom Kings, Joe Neptune, Jordie Lane Band, Your Animal and The Hondas. The group recently recorded its debut album with Aria nominee Steven Schram. Their live show as an eight-piece band has received rave reviews including being described as "refined and chaotic with flashes of ‘70s pop orchestra arrangements and dreamy summerdelica".

T H E U K E L A D I E S A u s t r a l i a

The Ukeladies, crooners, swooners, musical gold miners, and back-up singers de jour for many a Melbourne artist, expand from their delicate two-piece into a six-piece cocktail outfit especially for the Festival. The group specialise in long forgotten Hawaiian inspired tunes from the 1940s and ‘50s, so expect the gentle lapping of waves, swaying palm trees, suns setting and moons rising as you settle back with a drink or two into this charming musical hammock.

Image: Mariachi El Bronx

As part of the Beck’s Festival Bar series, Tin & Ed will apply their unique brand of careful yet chaotic installation and sculpture to the many nooks, crannies, archways and windows of the Forum Theatre. This new exhibition Holy-Grams reveals the many facets of holiness and worship in pop culture, underground musical heroes and iconic artists through a series of shrines.

The Melbourne-based design duo of Tin Nguyen and Edward Cutting has a seemingly endless thirst for experimentation with new mediums that has taken them on playful adventures through illustration, collage, photography, motion, installation and sculpture. Winners of the Qantas Spirit

of Youth Awards, the duo has worked on many large-scale commissioned projects as well as self-initiated works. They recently had their first solo show, A Relative Distance, at Lamington Drive in Melbourne.

Responding to the themes of Shamanism, cult bands and more broadly spirituality, running throughout this series, Tin & Ed lovingly put together a collection of handmade shrines built on layers of relics, found objects, mementos and offerings to be viewed in the context of a dark theatre with the live soundtrack of Boredoms, Stigmata, Sage Francis, Dengue Fever, The Drones, Low, P.K.14, Mariachi El Bronx and many more.

Event Information

the Forum Theatre

Sat 9 Oct Thu 14 – Sat 16 Oct Thu 21 – Sat 23 Oct Doors open 9pm

Holy-Grams can be viewed during all performances at Beck's Festival Bar.

Valid ticket required for entry.


S A T 9 - S A T 2 3 O C T

M A R I A C H I E L B R O N XE A G L E & T H E W O R M , T H E U K E L A D I E S

H O L Y - G R A M ST I N & E D

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BILL

Fire Woman and Tristan’s AscensionPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival, Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Pioneering American artist Bill Viola has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art. For over 35 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces and works for television broadcast. His video installations – total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound – employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. His next major commission is the creation of two permanent altar pieces for St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

For the 2010 Melbourne Festival, in partnership with Kaldor Public Art Projects, St Carthage’s Catholic Church in Parkville is turned into a video art shrine complete with the latest technology, surround sound and enveloping operatic narrative. Shown in a continuous loop, the two works, Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension, combine for a 20 minute visual and aural experience that extends Viola’s lifelong engagement with the human condition into ancient themes of life, love and death.

These two immersive installations are derived from Viola’s creation for Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde directed by Peter Sellars. Now separated from the opera, the stunning installations feature mythical and mystical apparitions set to their own new soundtrack, and can be experienced in all their glory in the sacred surrounds of St Carthage’s.

“Viola’s videos are not only mind blowing in concept, they are stunningly beautiful.” Vogue Australia

Event Information

St Carthage’s Catholic Church 123 Royal Pde, Parkville

Fri 8 – Sat 23 Oct Mon – Sat 7.30pm – 10pm (last entry 9.30pm) Closed Sun

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.auWith support from The Yulgilbar Foundation

Images: (left) Bill Viola Fire Woman, 2005Video/sound installation, 11.12min Performer: Robin Bonaccursi Photo: Kira Perov

(right) Bill Viola Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall), 2005Video/sound installation, 10.16min Performer: John Hay Photo: Kira Perov

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Bill ViolaTHE RAFTPresented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Experience video artist Bill Viola’s interpretation of The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault as part of the Festival’s celebration of this renowned artist’s work. The Raft (2004) shows a group of men and women of various races and socio-economic backgrounds suddenly being knocked to the ground by a huge, high-pressure jet of water. Water flies everywhere, clothing and bodies are pummelled, faces and limbs contort in stress and agony against the cold, hard force. Then, as suddenly as it arrived, the water stops, leaving behind a band of suffering, bewildered, and battered individuals.

The action in The Raft is recorded in high-speed film and unfolds in extreme slow motion to reveal subtle nuances of the light and colour in the explosive impact of the water and the individual expressions and gestures of the figures in the face of an overwhelming onslaught. Described by the artist as “an image of destruction and survival”, this powerful and extremely moving work is a symbol of hope in the difficult times we find ourselves.

“Viola’s filmic eye channels light like a Caravaggio brushstroke.” Australian Financial Review Magazine

Artist Bill Viola Onscreen Performers Sheryl Arenson, Robin Bonaccorsi, Rocky Capella, Cathy Chang, Liisa Cohen, Tad Coughenour, Tom Ficke, James Ford, Michael Irby, Simon Karimian, John Kim, Tanya Little, Mike Martinez, Petro Martirosian, Jeff Mosley, Gladys Peters, Maria Victoria, Kaye Wade, Kim Weild, Ellis Williams

Event Information

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Gallery 2

Thu 7 Oct 2010 – Sun 20 Feb 2011 10am – 6pm

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.acmi.net.auImage: Bill Viola The Raft, 2004Video/sound installation, 10min Photo: Kira Perov

BILL VIOLA IN CONVERSATIONPresented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Kaldor Public Art Projects in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

As part of the 2010 Melbourne Festival’s Bill Viola celebration, this In Conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists discuss his remarkable work.

Viola’s Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension can be experienced at St Carthage’s Church, The Raft is showing at ACMI and Ocean Without a Shore is a permanent installation at NGV International.

Event Information

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas

Fri 8 Oct at 6.30pm


Full ...................................................... $14Concession ............................................$11ACMI Members ..................................... $10


ACMI Box Office (03) 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.auImage: Kira Perov

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From the cradle to the grave! ACCA’s major exhibition Mortality takes us on life’s journey from the moment of lift off to the final send off, and all the bits in between. Curated by Juliana Engberg to reflect the Festival’s visual arts themes of spirituality, death and the afterlife, this trans-historical event includes metaphoric pictures and works by some of the world’s leading artists.

Exhibiting artists include:

Tacita Dean, an acclaimed British artist who works in film and drawing and has shown at Milan’s Fondazione Trussardi and at DIA Beacon, New York.

Anastasia Klose, one of Australia’s most exciting young video artists whose works also include performance and installation.

TV Moore, an Australian artist who completed his studies in Finland and the United States and who has shown extensively in Sydney, Melbourne and overseas.

Tony Oursler, a New York-based artist who works in a range of media and who has exhibited in the major institutions of New York, Paris, Cologne and Britain.

Giulio Paolini, an Italian born artist who has been a representative at both Documenta and the Venice Biennale.

David Rosetzky, a Melbourne-born artist who works predominantly in video and photographic formats and whose work has featured in numerous Australian exhibitions as well as New York, Milan and New Zealand galleries.

Louise Short, an emerging British artist who works predominately with found photographs and slides.

Anri Sala, an Albanian-born artist who lives and works in Berlin. He has shown in the Berlin Biennale and the Hayward, London.

Fiona Tan, an Indonesian-born artist, who lives and works in Amsterdam. Tan works with photography and film and has shown in a number of major solo and group exhibitions, including representing the Netherlands at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Bill Viola, one of the leaders in video and new media art who has shown widely internationally and in Australia.

Gillian Wearing, one of Britain’s most important contemporary artists and a Turner Prize winner who has exhibited extensively internationally.

Curator Juliana Engberg

Event Information

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 111 Sturt St, Southbank

Fri 8 Oct – Sun 28 Nov Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm Sat – Sun & Public Holidays 11am – 6pm Closed Mon

FREEACCA advises this exhibition requires approximately two hours for viewing. Please check the ACCA website for screening times of Tacita Dean’s Presentation Sisters.

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.accaonline.org.auACCA is supported by Australia Council, Arts Victoria and City of Melbourne

Image: David Rosetzky, Nothing like this, DVD, 2007, Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

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As Peggy Lee would say, ‘Is that all there is, is that all there is’.

Scottish artist and Turner prize nominee, Nathan Coley will erect his famous message sculpture Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens on the ACCA Forecourt. The sign evokes religious roadside architecture conjoined with retro fairground aesthetics. Its message is open to a range of readings, both reassuring and unsettling, but is ultimately no salve for our existential angst.

Event Information

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Forecourt111 Sturt St, Southbank

Thu 7 Oct – Dec 24 hours a day

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.accaonline.org.auCommissioned for the Folkestone Triennial 2008 A commission by ACCA in collaboration with the City of Melbourne's Public Art Program

Image: Nathan Coley, Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, 2008 Scaffolding and Illuminated textPhoto: Thierry Bal

Australian Premiere

UK

MORTALITYPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

After a Libretto by Tony MacGregorPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival, Wax Sound Media and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

What happens when the German artist Gerhard Richter and the jailed journalist turned terrorist Ulrike Meinhof are placed in the same room?

The latest performance work from artist David Chesworth is an evocative exploration of the limits of representation and direct action.

Richter/Meinhof-Opera has its origins in the controversial painting series 'October 18, 1977' by Gerhard Richter. The paintings depict scenes surrounding the apparent suicides of jailed members of the notorious Baader/Meinhof Group, responsible for a deadly campaign to overthrow the West German establishment. Derived from archival newspaper photographs, the paintings caused a sensation when first exhibited in Germany in 1989.

Drawing on the writings of both Richter and Meinhof and records of actual events, this intimate performance artwork is set to a series of compelling soundscapes by Chesworth.

Richter/Meinhof-Opera entangles art with politics, the real with the ritualised and the personal with the State.

WARNING Adult Themes

Please Note: Seating is limited

Event Information

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Foyer

Thu 14 & Fri 15 Oct at 7pm and 8.30pm Sat 16 Oct at 8pm and 9.30pm

45min no interval

All Tickets ....................................................$25


Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 www.melbournefestival.com.au M-Tix (03) 9685 5111 www.m-tix.com.au www.richter-meinhof-opera.comSupported by Arts Victoria

Image: AAP/AP

David Chesworth RICHTER/MEINHOF-OPERA

World Premiere

Australia

Nathan Coley HEAVEN IS A PLACE WHERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENSPresented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Various

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NYAH-BUNYAR(TEMPLE)Curated by Bindi ColePresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Arts Centre

For the 2010 Melbourne Festival, emerging Indigenous artist Bindi Cole has curated an ambitious exhibition exploring contemporary Aboriginal spirituality in an urban world. Nyah-bunyar (a Wathaurung word meaning ‘temple’) takes a fresh look at notions of spirituality, religion, ritual and death through a broad range of works from both established and emerging Indigenous artists.

Nyah-bunyar explores the complexities of Aboriginal spiritual beliefs that have long been misunderstood by non-Indigenous Australians. The Aboriginal belief system, which upholds and values ancestral beings, sacred sites, art, ceremony, ritual, totems, values, lore and social structures, continues to have significance in the lives of Aboriginal people today, even for those living in urban areas where the decimation of culture and spirituality is more strongly felt. These spiritual beliefs underpin the values and choices of urban Aboriginal people, and this exhibition examines how spirituality, religion, ritual and death can be reconciled when so much appears to have been lost.

From politically charged works engaging with deaths in custody and mortality to the contemporary re-imagining of a traditional funeral ceremony, Nyah-bunyar is a bold and unique exhibition.

Artists Tony Albert, Daniel Boyd, Maree Clarke, Vicki Couzens, Fiona Foley, Denis Nona, Zane Saunders, Yhonnie Scarce

Event Information

the Arts Centre, Gallery 1

Fri 8 – Sun 24 Oct 9am – Late

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.auImage: (left) Yhonnie Scarce, What They Wanted 2006Blown Glass with twine Image courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects

Supported by

Inspired by rumours of weapons of mass destruction and secret sites in Iraq, American photographic artist Taryn Simon focusses her lens on the hidden and inaccessible places in her own country.

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2006) takes the viewer behind closed doors to uncover some extraordinary things inside places usually hidden from the public’s view. Ranging across the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion, Simon’s photographic subjects include glowing radioactive capsules in an underwater nuclear-waste storage facility, a Braille edition of Playboy, a death-row prisoners' exercise yard, an inbred tiger, corpses rotting in a Forensic Research Facility, and a Scientology screening room.

Shot over four years, mostly with a large-format view camera, the images in this fascinating exhibition are in turn ethereal, foreboding, deadpan and cinematic. In examining what is integral to America's foundation, mythology and daily functioning, the Index provides a surprising map of the American mindset and creates a vivid portrayal of the contemporary United States.

Event Information

Centre for Contemporary Photography404 George St, Fitzroy

Official Opening Thu 14 Oct at 6pm

ExhibitionFri 15 Oct – Sun 12 Dec Wed – Fri 11am – 6pm Sat & Sun 12noon – 5pm Closed Mon & Tue

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.ccp.org.auAn American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar is an Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, touring exhibition.

Taryn Simon is represented by Gargosian Gallery, New York.

Image: Taryn Simon, White Tiger (Kenny), Selective Inbreeding, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and Foundation, Eureka Springs, Arkansas

TARYN SIMONAn American Index of the Hidden and UnfamiliarAn Institute of Modern Art touring exhibition presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Centre for Contemporary Photography

NYAH-BUNYAR DISCOVERY AT ARTPLAYPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and ArtPlay

Bring the family to discover more about Aboriginal culture at the Nyah-bunyar Discovery at ArtPlay. Explore the ritual and importance of traditional Aboriginal mourning ceremonies with Koorie artists Maree Clarke, Vicki Couzens and Nyah-bunyar curator Bindi Cole. Join the artists for an insider’s tour of the Nyah-bunyar exhibition at the Arts Centre, then walk to ArtPlay to participate in a contemporary ceremony designed to give a greater understanding of the strength and healing properties of traditional Aboriginal spiritual beliefs and stories. These discovery activities promise a very special experience for families to share.

Participating Artists Maree Clarke, Vicki Couzens with Bindi Cole

WARNING Not recommended for children under 5

Event Information

ArtPlay Birrarung Marr

Sat 16, Sun 17, Sat 23 & Sun 24 Oct at 10am & 1.30pm

2hr

All Tickets ....................................................$10


ArtPlay (03)9664 7900 www.artplay.com.auCo-produced by City of Melbourne

Image: Vicki Couzens, Moorraka Koorramook, 2010Image courtesy of the artist

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Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Gertrude Contemporary

Featuring work by seven major international artists, Dying in Spite of the Miraculous reveals the shadowy outlines that bleed between worlds, where artists become inseparable from their haunting of a site or a story. Co-curated by the Festival and Gertrude Contemporary, the exhibition explores film’s potential as an allegory for the interplay between real time and the illusory, as actors blur their characters with themselves, and sites resonate with accumulated history.

Combining the intrigue of real life events born from trauma and psychosis with ritual and magic, Dying in Spite of the Miraculous presents a restless fusion of the celestial and the real. Bas Jan Ader and Jeremy Blake both disappeared, presumed drowned, while exploring sadness and psychosis in their work. The myths and superstitions surrounding occultist Aleister Crowley and killers Jean-Claude Romand and Charles Manson are the subject of works by Joachim Koester, Saskia Olde Wolbers and Justin Lieberman. Joachim Koester and Ulla von Brandenburg investigate a curious collection of architectures, from the ghoulishly muraled rooms of Crowley’s magical community in Sicily, to Le Corbusier’s failed utopian experiment Villa Savoye. Jeremy Blake’s video work summons the spectres of the Winchester Mystery Mansion built by Sarah Lockwood Pardee, as a gift to the ghosts that haunted her. In all of these works the celestial coexists with the out-take and the certain becomes ethereal.

Working in collaboration with architect Johan Van Schaik, Gertrude Contemporary’s two gallery spaces will be transformed into a dematerialising labyrinth, mirroring the way the works blur the distinction between self and subject.

Jeremy Blake (USA) presented work in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials, and his work also features as the abstract sequences in the film Punch Drunk Love.

Ulla von Brandenburg (Germany) has exhibited widely including in the 2009 Venice Biennale, the 2008 Torino Triennale and at Tate Modern, London.

Bas Jan Ader (Netherlands) exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York, ‘Prospect ’71’ Düsseldorf, and in numerous solo exhibitions.

DYING IN SPITE OF THE MIRACULOUS

For The Solo Projects, Melbourne-based artists Jensen Tjhung and Sean Loughrey each construct a room within a room to create intense and immersive viewing experiences.

Through researching and collating information on the psychology of fractured belief systems, places of worship in philosophy and mythology, Tjhung creates a large-scale monument reflecting the dark forces of the Australian psyche from the deep suburbs to the outback.

Loughrey’s new work, titled Fiat lux – Let There Be Light – Again, utilises projection, both inside and outside a prefabricated constructed and furnished room or shed. As in previous works, this new project reflects upon the work of Samuel Beckett. While the title pronounces a repeated beginning, the contrary underlying philosophical concerns are questions of existence and the end of “things” as a character in a Beckett play might say.

Event Information

VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery40 Dodds St, Southbank

Official Opening Thu 7 Oct at 6pm

ExhibitionFri 8 Oct – Sat 6 Nov Tue – Sat 12noon – 5pm Closed Sun & Mon

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.vcam.unimelb.edu.auImages: Jensen Tjhung (top image) The Hell, 2009Installation at Hell Gallery

Sean Loughrey (bottom image) Two Triangles, 20 Windows (Possible Things Project 2) 2006Fluorescent nylon (Ripstop) installed on windows of the Cowan Building, Trinity College, University of Melbourne part of Trinity Nine, Ocular Lab artists at Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Photo: Christian Capurro

THE SOLO PROJECTSSean Loughrey and Jensen TjhungPresented by Margaret Lawrence Gallery in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

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Russian collective AES+F work with photography, video, sculpture and mixed media. Since 1987, they have interwoven imagery relating to modern technology, Hollywood cinema, fashion photography, advertising, death, religion, the British Royal Family, mass media, popular culture and youth obsession throughout their work.

The Feast of Trimalchio is an interpretation of the witty but melancholy fiction ‘Satyricon’

by the Roman poet Petronius. In the ancient version Trimalchio’s feast was portrayed as the ideal celebration that Trimalchio imagined for his own funeral. In the AES+F 21st Century version, an orgy of consumerism reflects on the contemporary state of Russia and indeed the world. Created from over 75,000 photographs, the complete work is a nine-channel panoramic media that made its celebrated debut at the 2009 Venice Biennale. For the Festival, Anna Schwartz Gallery features a set of three expansive photographic tableaux. These captivating images of a temporary hotel paradise portray opulence and excess overshadowed by a dark uneasiness.

AES+F are Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky & Vladimir Fridkes

WARNING Full Frontal Nudity, Adult Concepts

Event Information

Anna Schwartz Gallery 185 Flinders Lane

Thu 7 – Sat 23 Oct Tue – Fri 12noon – 6pm Sat 1pm – 5pm Closed Sun & Mon

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.annaschwartzgallery.comImage: Courtesy the artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne & Sydney

AES+FTHE FEAST OF TRIMALCHIOPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and Anna Schwartz Gallery

Melbourne Exclusive

RussiaVarious

Melbourne Exclusive

Joachim Koester (Denmark) was a 2008 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize and exhibited for the 2005 Venice Biennale Danish Pavilion.

Justin Lieberman (USA) has exhibited at galleries and museums in New York, Israel, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Switzerland, and London.

Mel O'Callaghan is an Australian born, Paris and Berlin-based artist whose film, video, photographic and sculptural installations have been exhibited in Australia and overseas.

Saskia Olde Wolbers (Netherlands) was the winner of the Beck’s Futures award in 2004 and the Bâloise Prize at Basel Art Fair 2003 and has exhibited extensively internationally.

Curators Emily Cormack, Alexie Glass-Kantor, Simon Maidment, Brett Sheehy

Event Information

Gertrude Contemporary 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

Official Opening Fri 8 Oct at 6pm

ExhibitionFri 8 Oct – Sat 6 Nov Tue – Fri 11am – 5.30pm Sat 11am – 4.30pm Closed Sun & Mon

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.au www.gertrude.org.auSupported by Minifie Nixon Architects

Image: Saskia Olde Wolbers Placebo 2002 video for projection Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London

World Premiere

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THE HAWKER'S SONG Sue McCauley, Keith Deverell, Srey Bandol, Meas SokhornPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival, City of Greater Dandenong and Signal

Street hawkers, singing plaintive songs designed to sell their wares, are an important part of life in Phnom Penh that is fast disappearing. The streets no longer bustle with the sounds of the bicycle carts and the sellers’ songs are not heard as often. After decades of war and political strife, the citizens of the capital are being propelled by urban development to move quickly into a globalised future. The Hawker's Song focuses on themes of memory, loss and urbanisation. Inspired by the rich cultural tradition of orality, exchange and commerce that appears to be dying in this race towards ‘modernisation’, the work highlights global concerns around the death of the local, in the face of capital and technological progression.

Renowned Australian and Cambodian artists have collaborated on The Hawker’s Song cultural exchange project, creating a video and sound installation that celebrates the precarious survival of this unique aspect of Cambodian life. The components of this work are projected in three locations: Signal on the banks of the Yarra River, a disused ticket box on the Springvale Railway Station and the window of The Laundrette, Springvale. Poetic video portraits of hawkers plying their trade are accompanied by exquisite sound compositions. Hawker calls and ambience


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UP CLOSE:CAROL JERREMS WITH LARRY CLARK, NAN GOLDIN AND WILLIAM YANGPresented by Heide Museum of Modern Art in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival

Up Close traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems, and situates her work alongside that of other photo-based artists from the 1970s and 1980s: Larry Clark and Nan Goldin from New York, and William Yang from Sydney.

Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, each artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and their surroundings. The exhibition exposes the fragility of life and flirts with the spectre of mortality, as the artists’ cameras delve into the often self-destructive lives of their fringe-dwelling subjects.

Up Close features an extensive display of Jerrems’ photographs, films and items drawn from her archive, including newly discovered prints and previously unseen out-takes from Kathy Drayton’s film, The Girl in the Mirror (2005). These are complemented by Clark’s images of marginalised youth, including from his Tulsa portfolio; Yang’s celebratory images of Sydney’s gay scene in the 1970s; and Goldin’s iconic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a photographic slide work chronicling the lives of her friends, family and lovers.A 260-page book on Carol Jerrems with a chapter devoted to each of her contemporaries – Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and William Yang – is co-published by Heide Museum of Modern Art and Schwartz City to accompany the exhibition.

Guest Curator Natalie King

WARNING Adult Themes, Nudity

USA/Australia

BEHIND THE LENS: UP CLOSE ON FILMPresented by Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Heide Museum of Modern Art

Get a glimpse of the photographers behind the camera with these two documentaries about two of the artists featured in Heide Museum of Modern Art’s Up Close exhibition.

Girl In A Mirror Kathy Drayton, 2005, Rated M

Kathy Drayton’s award-winning film offers a vibrant portrait of the counterculture of 1970s Sydney and Melbourne as seen through the eyes of the iconic Australian photographer Carol Jerrems.

The screening is introduced with a short talk by Natalie King, guest curator of Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, and followed by a Q & A with the film’s director Kathy Drayton, chaired by Natalie King.

Sadness Tony Ayres, 1999, Rated M

A moving and unforgettable filmic adaptation of William Yang’s acclaimed stage performance, Sadness, as told by celebrated Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water).

The screening is introduced with a short talk by Jason Smith, Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art, and followed by a Q & A with the film’s director Tony Ayres and artist William Yang, chaired by Jason Smith.

Event Information

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas

Sun 17 Oct at 3.30pm

2hr 15min

Please note there will be a 25min break between the two films

Full .......................................................... $14Concession ...............................................$11


ACMI Box Office (03) 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.auImage: Carol Jerrems, Vale Street, 1975National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant, 1982 © Ken Jerrems & the Estate of Lance Jerrems

This year’s Melbourne Festival is sure to tempt arts lovers from around Victoria to head to the city for some of the incredible events on offer. And we’re also offering regional areas an artistic taste of the Festival with the Gare St Lazare Players Ireland performance of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett's novella, First Love.

In a supremely funny performance Conor Lovett, one of the world's greatest interpreters of Beckett's work, plays on the theme often expressed by Beckett that "nothing is funnier than unhappiness". This engaging monologue can be seen at Warrnambool, Warragul and Bendigo.

Event Information

The Capital – Bendigo’s Performing Arts Centre

Tue 19 Oct at 8pm

(03) 5434 6100 www.thecapital.com.au

Warrnambool Entertainment Centre

Thu 21 Oct at 8pm

(03) 5559 4999 www.entertainmentcentre.com.au

West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul

Sat 23 Oct at 8pm

(03) 5624 2456 www.wgac.org.au

Regional Touring

FESTIVAL OUT OF MELBOURNE

from the streets of Phnom Penh have been interwoven with recordings made in Melbourne of expatriate Cambodians remembering the calls of days gone by. During the Festival visiting Cambodian artists Srey Bandol and Meas Sokhorn will hold visual art workshops at Signal with young people of Cambodian backgrounds from the Springvale area.

Artists Keith Deverell (Australia/UK), Sue McCauley (Australia), Srey Bandol (Cambodia), Meas Sokhorn (Cambodia) Composer Corey Sands (Australia)

Event Information

Signal Northbank, behind Flinders St Station

Springvale Railway Station, Ticket Box

The Laundrette 5 Sandown Rd, Springvale (opp Springvale Railway Station)

Fri 8 – Sat 23 Oct

Dusk till late

Springvale Launch at The LaundretteWed 13 Oct at 6.30pm

FREE

www.melbournefestival.com.auCo-produced by Dana Langlois (JavaArts) and Sue McCauley (Greyspace)

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts, the Belgrave Group, City of Melbourne, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Greyspace and JavaArts

Visual Arts Program Supported by

Melbourne Exclusive

Event Information

Heide Museum of Modern Art7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen

Sat 31 Jul – Sun 31 Oct Tue – Sun 10am – 5pm Closed Mon

FREE

www.heide.com.auImages: (top) Robert Ashton, Carol Jerrems, Prahran 1970 Courtesy the artist © Robert Ashton

(bottom) Larry Clark, Untitled,1979 Purchased 1980 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra © Larry Clark Image courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

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2010 Patrons Circle

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Melbourne Festival Patrons are generous individuals and businesses whose donations give audiences the opportunity to enjoy the best international art that can only be experienced during the Festival. The Patrons Circle is our primary means of acknowledging their kind support.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Festival please telephone Leith Condon, Private Giving Manager, on (03) 9652 8651 or email [email protected]

Melbourne Festival warmly thanks the following individuals and organisations, together with a number who choose to remain anonymous, for their generous support of the 2010 Festival.Diamond PatronsCarrillo Gantner AO & ZiYin Gantner

Ruby PatronsAnnamila Pty Ltd

Sapphire PatronsDaniel & Danielle Besen Eva Besen AO & Marc Besen AO Albert & Debbie Dadon Cassy Liberman Carol & Alan Schwartz The Brenda Shanahan Charitable Foundation Peter Yates

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Elizabeth H Loftus Anna Lozynski Pamela Macklin Tony Macvean Andrew Maryniak Diane Masters Susan Negrau Lady Potter AC Rae Rothfield Jane Ryan Maria Ryan Katherine Sampson Dr Jan Schapper Dahle Suggett A Tobin & C Toh Leonard Vary Catherine Walter AM Barbara Ward-Ambler Pinky Watson Ian A Watts Maria Weight Janet Whiting Lyn Williams AM Gael Wilson Vic Zbar

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Patron in ChiefHis Excellency The Governor of Victoria, David de Kretser AC

PatronThe Right Hon. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Robert Doyle, City of Melbourne

PresidentCarrillo Gantner AO

Vice PresidentJohn WH Denton

TreasurerSimon Jones

DirectorsLouise Adler AM Berry Liberman Simon McCall Corrie Perkin Peter Yates

ExecutiveArtistic DirectorBrett Sheehy

General Manager & Head of ProgrammingVivia Hickman

ProgrammingProgram ManagerMike Harris

Visual Arts CoordinatorSimon Maidment

Festival Club ProducerHannah Fox

Artistic Associate – Special Projects Steven Richardson

Associate Producer – Special Projects Kate Ben-Tovim

Contracts CoordinatorJennifer Gulbransen

Assistant to Artistic DirectorLuke McKinnon

Executive Assistant to the General ManagerAnita Fiorenza

DevelopmentManager – Development & Corporate RelationsSusan Negrau

Sponsorship Manager (until July 2010)Paul Myers

Private Giving ManagerLeith Condon

Development CoordinatorMaylise Dent

Finance & AdministrationFinance & Administration ManagerDiane Shannon

Assistant AccountantNely Tang

Accounts AssistantJessica Willason

Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications ManagerLauren Bialkower

Publications ExecutiveAndi Lawson-Moore

Marketing CoordinatorKristy Doggett

Graphic DesignerBoruk Gradman

Audience Development CoordinatorKylie Eddy

TicketingTicketing Services ManagerSarah Coffey

PublicityPublicity ManagerPrue Bassett

Senior PublicistChrissie Vincent

Festival Club Publicity Angela Henley

Publicity AdministratorSophia Sourris

OperationsProduction & Operations ManagerDonna Aston

Technical ManagerAdam J Howe

Operations AdministratorFiona Rakimov

Logistics AdministratorDavid Gardette

Systems & Special Projects Coordinator (until June 2010)Petrina Soh

Production CoordinatorAaron Hock

Manager, Arts Centre EventsPeter Labza

Production Coordinator, Arts Centre EventsCarolyn Emerson

Outdoor Projects CoordinatorKelly Harrington

Artist Liaison CoordinatorZohar Spatz

Risk ManagementBill Coleby

AcknowledgementsAdrien Aderhold, Mark Allan, APRA, Astrid Bovell, Nick Carroll, Christine Chan, Deluxe Coachlines, Robert Collier, Sam Cooke, Jane Crawley, Eli Erez, Caroline Farmer, Dominic Forde, Darren Golding, Peter Green, Sue & Alex Hampel, Kelly Higginbotham, Glen Hirst, Tom Howie, Penny Hutchinson, Jason Ireland, Rob Irwin, Louise Jeffreys, Jo Juler, Eleni Koronakos, Eva Kutka, Hal Leonard, Penny McCabe, Jennifer McDonnell, David McDonald, Jason Marriner, Joy Murphy, Adrian Nandapi, Kerry Noonan, Katherine Norman, Gideon Obarzanek, Fiona Ostoja, Tania Owen, Darren Paine, Jason Read, Paul Rigby, Kevin Robotham, Helen Schleiger, Leo Schofield, Chrissy Sharpe, Kirsten Siddle, Alistair Spalding, Lyndal Hunt at Stage & Screen, Frank Stoffels, Tom Supple, Graeme Trott, Dexter Varley, Rod Ward, Michael Whitehead

2010 Festival Identity & Program Guide DesignFamous Visual Services

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Melbourne Festival respectfully acknowledges the customs and traditions of the people of the Kulin Nation.

Special ThanksThe following companies and productions acknowledge the support of

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Carnival of Mysteries (Creative Development) CCP en masse epi-thet The Hawker’s SongIlbijerri Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company

A.R.A.B. – Northern Trax Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Carnival of Mysteries (Creative Development) CCP en masse Ilbijerri Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company Ranters Theatre – IntimacyRichter/Meinhof-Opera

A.R.A.B. – Northern Trax Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Carnival of Mysteries (Creative Development) en masse epi-thet The Hawker’s SongIlbijerri Theatre Company Nathan Coley – Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever HappensNyah-bunyar Discovery at ArtPlayRanters Theatre – Intimacy

Staff & Acknowledgements Access Information

Melbourne International Arts Festival is Committed to Improving Access for all People. Access symbols have been used in this guide to indicate services and facilities available at Festival events. It is important that ticketing staff are notified of your requirements at the time of booking to ensure that suitable seating is allocated or other necessary arrangements can be made.

Melbourne International Arts Festival provides some tickets at discounted prices for people with access needs through the n-able ticketing service. Contact the Festival office on (03) 9662 4242 or [email protected] for more information.

EASE members can also book tickets through the EASE Ticket Service on (03) 9699 7636 or [email protected]

Patrons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Assistive ListeningThis symbol indicates that sound amplification systems are available for people who are hard of hearing. A hearing system is available in the Arts Centre, providing coverage to all seats via headphones or neckloops through an FM signal. Please request a unit from the venue staff. At other venues Ampetronic Induction Loops are available to patrons with a hearing aid via the

“T” setting on their device. For more assistance please ask the venue staff.

Visual Symbol The visual symbol provides an indicator for the level of visual elements in a performance to assist in determining if the event is accessible for audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing.

No music/sounds or dialogue, or event is captioned or Auslan-interpreted

May have music/sounds in the background, or may be partly captioned (or surtitled) or scripts/descriptions are given to the audience before the event on request.

Auslan Sign InterpretingAUSLAN is the major language used by the Australian Deaf community.

The Festival may provide AUSLAN interpreting on request – see boxed information.

Patrons who are Blind or have Low Vision

Audio DescriptionAudio description is a narration of the visual elements of a live theatre performance for persons with low or no vision. Through the use of a small radio receiver and earpiece, patrons can listen to concise descriptions of costumes, stage settings, actions, expressions and gestures as they are transmitted live in between the dialogue.

The Festival may provide audio description on request – see boxed information.

Physical AccessEvery effort has been made to ensure that Melbourne International Arts Festival events are accessible for people who use wheelchairs or have limited mobility.

Wheelchair AccessIf this symbol is not displayed, access may be limited. Please contact Melbourne International Arts Festival for more information. The Festival acknowledges that attendance at free and non-allocated seating events may be more difficult for people with limited mobility. If you require assistance at an event without allocated seating please contact our n-able ticketing service on (03) 9662 4242 or [email protected]

Patrons with limited mobility may require assisted access by venue staff at the following venues:

• Gertrude Contemporary • the Forum Theatre • fortyfivedownstairs • St Carthage’s Catholic Church

Please contact staff on arrival should such assistance be required.

Companion Card Some people with a disability require the assistance of a companion or carer to access venues and events. Melbourne International Arts Festival offers a second ticket at no cost to people who possess a Companion Card and who purchase tickets for Festival-controlled events through Ticketmaster or venue box offices (Not available for internet bookings).

Carer Card The Carer Card has been established to provide recognition, understanding and support for unpaid carers throughout Victoria. Melbourne International Arts Festival recognises Carers in our community by offering Carer Card holders a 25% concession to most Festival performances. Tickets must be purchased through Ticketmaster or venue box offices (not available for internet bookings) and the Carer Card must be presented at the venue.

Auslan Interpreting and Audio Description Services

Auslan Sign Interpreting

Audio Description

To assist the Festival in planning our AUSLAN and Audio Description activities we ask you to make a request for these services.

The procedure for requesting AUSLAN or Audio Description can be found at www.melbournefestival.com/access

For further information on this procedure you can also contact Melbourne International Arts Festival on (03) 9662 4242 or [email protected]

The deadline for requests is 20 August 2010. Requests do not require payment. Some terms and conditions apply.

Having trouble reading the small print?To request a large-print version of event descriptions or an audio version please call (03) 9662 4242

Information about accessible parking and public transport in the City of Melbourne is available at www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/CommunityServices/DisabilityServices. This includes:

• wheelchair accessible toilets and telephones • public TTY phones • disability designated car parking spots • accessible off street parking • train stations • accessible pathways • taxi ranks • public seating • street gradients

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Booking InformationHow to BookIn PersonVisit any Ticketmaster outlet from Wednesday 14 July or the Festival Ticketing & Information Booth in Federation Square open Monday 4 – Saturday 23 October 10am – 6pm daily.

Tickets for events at the following venues can also be purchased at the relevant venue box office from Wednesday 14 July:

the Arts Centre The CUB Malthouse Melbourne Theatre Company Melbourne Recital Centre Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) fortyfivedownstairs

Please check each venue’s website for box office locations and opening hours.

Please Note: the Arts Centre no longer operates as a Ticketmaster outlet. Only tickets for events at the Arts Centre can be purchased from the Arts Centre Box Office.

By Telephone Ticketmaster: Call 1300 723 038 or from outside Australia +61 3 9694 4566

Tickets for events at the following venues can also be purchased by calling the relevant venue box office.

the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 The CUB Malthouse +61 3 9685 5111 Melbourne Theatre Company +61 3 8688 0800 Melbourne Recital Centre +61 3 9699 3333 ACMI +61 3 8663 2583 fortyfivedownstairs +61 3 9662 9966 Arts House +61 3 9322 3713

By Fax Fax Booking Form to Melbourne International Arts Festival Bookings on (03) 9650 0099 or from outside Australia +61 3 9650 0099

Via our Website Visit www.melbournefestival.com.au and you will have two booking options.

You can click through to the Ticketmaster or venue website to purchase tickets online, or fill out the Festival’s online booking form to order your Discount Package or Matinee/Twilight Package. Once our booking office has received your order we will contact you for your credit card details.

Please Note: Discount Packages and Matinee/Twilight Packages are only available by filling in the Festival’s online booking form or telephoning Ticketmaster and cannot be bought online through the Ticketmaster website.

By Mail Post Booking Form to: Melbourne International Arts Festival Bookings PO Box 10 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC 8009

Terms and ConditionsFees and Charges Tickets to Festival events are sold by a variety of ticketing agents, each with different booking fees and ticket processing charges. For the convenience of Festival patrons, prices for events listed in this brochure are inclusive of these charges for over the counter bookings (with the exception of tickets purchased over the counter at The CUB Malthouse, which will incur a $1.50 per ticket booking fee). Where tickets are booked by telephone, mail, fax or internet, an additional cost will be incurred and will vary from a per-transaction charge to a per–ticket charge depending on which agent is selling the ticket.

Refunds and Exchanges Melbourne International Arts Festival regrets that it is not possible to refund completed bookings. Exchanges are only permitted to another performance of the same event. Any exchanges must be made at the original point of sale.

Program Details Program details are correct at the time of printing but are subject to change where necessary and without notice. Please check the website for updates.

Booking Exceptions All ticketed events listed in this brochure can be purchased through Ticketmaster, except for the following:

• A Matter of Life & Death: Wheeler Centre Spotlight Sessions (page 34) is only available through the Wheeler Centre www.wheelercentre.com

• Bill Viola In Conversation (page 47) is only available through the ACMI Box Office (03) 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.au

• Behind the Lens: Up Close On Film (page 54) is only available through the ACMI Box Office (03) 8663 2583 www.acmi.net.au

• Northern Trax (page 35) is only available through A.R.A.B. (03) 9359 3670

• Nyah-bunyar Discovery at ArtPlay (page 51) is only available through ArtPlay (03) 9664 7900 www.artplay.com

• Seven Songs to Leave Behind (page 8) unless purchased as part of a Discount Package is only available through the Arts Centre 1300 182 183 www.theartscentre.com.au

Concessions Unless otherwise indicated on an individual event page concession prices apply to persons who are aged 14 years and under, 3RRR subscribers, students (including International Student cardholders), Youth Hostel Association members (YHA), all international backpacker cardholders, Media Entertainment and Alliance members (MEAA), full pensioners, Seniors Card holders, Victorian Carer Card holders, welfare benefit recipients and the unemployed.

Proof of concession eligibility is required at point of sale and upon entering venues.

Companion Cards are honoured, see page 71 for details.

Performance Restrictions In consideration of performers and other patrons at indoor Festival performances please note that the Festival reserves the right to exclude latecomers at certain events or to admit only at a suitable point in the performance.

The use of mobile telephones, audible paging devices and alarm or chiming watches is not permitted.

The use of cameras and other recording equipment constitutes a breach of copyright and is strictly prohibited.

Discounts & Packages

From 1 Sep See More and SaveBuy 3, 4 or 5 events that qualify for a Discount Package and save 10%. Buy 6 or more events and save 15%.

Group Discounts – Book a group of eight or more and save If you book for a group of eight or more to many of our shows, you receive 10% off the ticket price. To be eligible for the Group Discount for MTC’s Life Without Me and Malthouse Theatre’s Intimacy you must purchase ten or more tickets.

Matinee/Twilight Package – See 3 or more matinees or early evening performances for only $30 eachThe following performances have this special price:

• Adapting For Distortion & Haptic Sun 17 Oct at 5pm

• An Anthology of Optimism Sat 23 Oct at 5pm• The Beckett Trilogy Sun 17 Oct at 1pm• The Blue Dragon Sat 9 Oct at 2pm• come, been and gone Sun 10 Oct at 5pm• Intimacy Sat 16 Oct at 2pm & Thu 21 Oct at 1pm

• Jack Charles v The Crown Sat 16 & Sun 17 Oct at 2pm

• Life Without Me Wed 13 & Wed 20 Oct at 2pm, Sat 16 & Sat 23 Oct at 4pm

• Stifters Dinge Fri 8 – Tue 12 Oct at 2pm and 5pm

Hurry – only a limited number of seats are available at this special price.

Students and Backpackers – Experience the Festival for just $25Limited tickets for most events are specially priced for students, including international student cardholders, Youth Hostel Association members (YHA) and all holders of international backpacking cards.

For events with more than one price reserve, the student discount may be limited to B and C Reserve seats.

See individual listings for details of which events qualify for the $25 ticket price. Where the $25 ticket price does not apply, students are eligible for the concession price.

School GroupsThe Festival offers discounted tickets to secondary school groups. These tickets can only be purchased through the Festival and are for school groups with accompanying teachers.

For more information about school groups, email: [email protected] or download our Schools Brochure at www.melbournefestival.com.au/education

EARLY BIRD OFFER – AVAILABLE UNTIL 31 AUGUSTBuy 3, 4 or 5 events that qualify for a Discount Package before 31 August and save 15%. Buy 6 or more events before 31 August and save 20%.

Discount Packages Terms and ConditionsDiscount Conditions The Discount Package and Group Discount apply to full price tickets only. For events with more than one price reserve, discounts apply to A Reserve seats only.

All tickets must be purchased at the same time to qualify for the discount. Tickets must be purchased in person, by telephoning 1300 723 038 or by mail or fax to attract the discount. Alternatively discounts can be ordered by filling out the Festival online booking form available at www.melbournefestival.com.au Tickets purchased online via the Ticketmaster website do NOT attract the discount.

The Discount Package does not apply to the following events:

• A Matter of Life & Death: Wheeler Centre Spotlight Sessions

• Behind the Lens: Up Close on Film • Bill Viola In Conversation • Nyah-bunyar Discovery at ArtPlay • Regional Touring• Richter/Meinhof-Opera

Matinee/Twilight Package Conditions You must purchase at least one ticket to three applicable matinees or early evening performances to qualify for the discount. All tickets must be purchased at the same time. No further discounts apply to the Matinee/Twilight Package price and tickets purchased at this price do not count towards a Discount Package when purchasing additional events. Matinee/Twilight Package tickets must be purchased in person, by telephoning 1300 723 038 or by mail or fax. Alternatively Matinee/Twilight Package tickets can be ordered by filling out the Festival online booking form available at www.melbournefestival.com.au. Tickets purchased online via the Ticketmaster website do NOT Attract the Matinee/Twilight Package discount.

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Step 3 PaymentPlease do not post cash

Cheque

Please make payable to: Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Ltd

Booking OptionsBy MailPost Booking Form to: Melbourne International Arts Festival Bookings PO Box 10, Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 8009

By FaxFax Booking Form to (03) 9650 0099 or from outside Australia to +61 3 9650 0099

In PersonVisit any Ticketmaster outlet from 14 July

By TelephoneCall Ticketmaster on 1300 723 038. From outside Australia call +61 3 9694 4566

Via InternetThere are two ways to book through our website www.melbournefestival.com.au

Multiple show discounts and packages can be booked by filling out the online booking form. Alternatively you can click through to the Ticketmaster website to book tickets.

Please note: Discounts and packages are not available through Ticketmaster’s online booking system.

ExceptionsSome events will not be available through these booking methods. Please check booking details for individual events.

Discounts & PackagesSee more and save

Buy 3, 4 or 5 eligible events and save 10%. Buy 6 or more events and save 15%. Matinee/Twilight Package also available, see page 72 for full details.

Early Bird Offer – Available until 31 August

Buy 3, 4 or 5 eligible events before 31 August and save 15%. Buy 6 or more events and save 20%.

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MelbourneTheatre Company,Sumner Theatre

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Arts House,North Melbourne Town Hall

Sidney MyerMusic Bowl

Off the Map LocationsAustralian National Academy of MusicSouth Melbourne Town Hall, 210 Bank St, South Melbourne Melways MAP 2K C2

Centre for Contemporary Photography404 George St, Fitzroy Melways MAP 2C C7

Gertrude Contemporary200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy Melways MAP 2C C11

Heide Museum of Modern Art7 Templestowe Rd,Bulleen Melways Map 32 E5

The Laundrette 5 Sandown Rd, Springvale Melways Map 80 A9

St Carthage’s Catholic Church123 Royal Pde, Parkville Melways MAP 2B B4

Springvale Train StationLightwood Rd, Springvale Melways Map 80 A9

For further parking information please visit www.secureparking.com.au

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Pg Event Venue Fri 8 Sat 9 Sun 10 Mon 11 Tue 12 Wed 13 Thu 14 Fri 15 Sat 16 Sun 17 Mon 18 Tue 19 Wed 20 Thu 21 Fri 22 Sat 23

FREE & OUTDOOR2 Grupo Puja! – K@osmos Alexandra Gardens 9pm 9pm 9pm3 Halo St Kilda Rd Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk Dusk

OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE22 Heiner Goebbels – Stifters Dinge (Stifter's Things) The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5pm6 Hotel Pro Forma – Tomorrow, In A Year the Arts Centre, State Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

DANCE18 Akram Khan Company – Vertical Road The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm16 Hirokai Umeda – Adapting for Distortion & Haptic The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 5pm4 Michael Clark Company – come, been and gone the Arts Centre, State Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 5pm

THEATRE24 An Anthology of Optimism the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 5/7.45pm23 Jack Charles v The Crown the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2/7.45pm 2pm26 Life Without Me: By Daniel Keene The MTC Theatre, Sumner 8pm 8pm 8pm 2/8pm 8pm 4/8.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 1/8pm 8pm 8pm 4/8.30pm27 Ranters Theatre – Intimacy The CUB Malthouse, Beckett Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2/7.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 1/7.30pm 7.30pm 2/7.30pm10 Robert Lepage – The Blue Dragon the Arts Centre, Playhouse 8pm 2/8pm 6pm 8pm 8pm25 The Beckett Trilogy the Arts Centre, Playhouse 8pm 8pm 8pm 1pm20 Toneelgroep Amsterdam – Opening Night the Arts Centre, Playhouse 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pmMUSIC 31 Adès @ ANAM Australian National Academy of Music 7pm 7pm32 Calder Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall 8pm29 en masse Performance Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall 6.30/8pm 6.30/8pm 6.30/8pm 5/6.30/8pm 5/6.30/8pm12 John Cale – When Past & Future Collide the Arts Centre, State Theatre 7.30pm8 Seven Songs To Leave Behind the Arts Centre, Sidney Myer Music Bowl 7.30pm

33 Soak + The Hollow Air Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall 8pm31 Thomas Adès & Calder Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall 6pm30 Thomas Adès & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall 7.30pm36 Ursula Yovich – Magpie Blues the Forum Theatre 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pmMUSIC at BECK’S FESTIVAL BAR38 Boredoms with Kes Band & Bum Creek Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm41 Dengue Fever with The Break & Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm43 The Drones with P.K.14 & The Twerps Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm42 Low with Pikelet & Ponzu Island Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm44 Mariachi El Bronx with Eagle & the Worm & The Ukeladies Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm40 Sage Francis with Dexter & Horrorshow Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm39 Stigmata with Blarke Bayer/Black Widow Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pmEXPERIENTIAL 48 David Chesworth – Richter/Meinhof-Opera- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 7/8.30pm 7/8.30pm 8/9.30pm29 en masse Installation Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall 1–6pm 1–6pm 1–4.30pm 1–4.30pm29 epi-thet Arts House, Meat Market 1–9pm 1–9pm 1–9pm 1–9pm 1–9pm14 Finucane & Smith's Carnival of Mysteries fortyfivedownstairs 6/8pm 6/8/10pm 4/6/8pm 7/9pm 7/9pm 7/9pm 6/8/10pm 6/8/10pm 4/6/8pm 7/9pm 7/9pm 7/9pm 6/8/10pm 6/8/10pm2 Grupo Puja! – K@osmos Alexandra Gardens 9pm 9pm 9pm

22 Heiner Goebbels – Stifters Dinge (Stifter's Things) The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5/8pm 2/5pm35 Northern Trax Various * * * * * *35 Pop-Up Project Various *VISUAL ARTS53 AES+F – The Feast of Trimalchio Anna Schwartz Gallery 12–6pm 1–5pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 1–5pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 12–6pm 1–5pm46 Bill Viola – Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension St Carthage's Catholic Church, Parkville * * * * * * * * * * * * * *47 Bill Viola –The Raft Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Gallery 2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *48 David Chesworth – Richter/Meinhof-Opera- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) 7/8.30pm 7/8.30pm 8/9.30pm52 Dying in Spite of the Miraculous Gertrude Contemporary * * * * * * * * * * * *48 Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Forecourt 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr 24hr45 Holy-Grams Beck's Festival Bar, Forum Theatre 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm53 Jensen Tjhung and Sean Loughrey – The Solo Projects VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm49 Mortality Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) * * * * * * * * * * * * * *50 Nyah-bunyar (Temple) the Arts Centre, Gallery 1 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *51 Taryn Simon – An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) * * * * * * * *55 The Hawker's Song Signal, Springvale Station & The Laundrette, Springvale * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *54 Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang Heide Museum of Modern Art * * * * * * * * * * * * * *FILM54 Behind the Lens: Up Close on Film Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas 3.30pmTALKS AND FORUMS34 A Matter of Life & Death Artist Conversations Federation Square, BMW Edge 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm34 A Matter of Life & Death Wheeler Centre Discussions Federation Square, BMW Edge 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm47 Bill Viola In Conversation Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas 6.30pm13 John Cale – Noises in my Head the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio 7.45pmWORKSHOPS51 Nyah-bunyar Discovery at ArtPlay ArtPlay 10am/1.30pm 10am/1.30pm 10am/1.30pm

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