 | FRENCH SONGBIRD PERFORMS FIRST TIME IN BRISBANE - Selling out some of the world’s top venues including a 17,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, French songbird Belle Du Berry and Australian multi-instrumentalist David Lewis will perform their acclaimed blend of classic French cabaret and American jazz for the first time in Brisbane at the Judith Wright Centre on Friday 3 September 2010. |
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| CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED JAZZ BAND PREMIERES NEW MUSIC FOR HOME CROWD - Fresh from a successful UK tour and drawing comparisons with EST, The Necks and Radiohead, critically acclaimed jazz trio Misinterprotato returns home to premiere music from their highly anticipated fourth album, The Gentle War, at the Judith Wright Centre from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 August 2010. Delicate classical melodies collide with gritty rock and exuberant rhythms in The Gentle War, taking listeners on a journey from the snow-covered, cobbled streets of Europe to the scorching heat of an Australian summer. |
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| SEDUCTIVE BLEND OF DANCE AND JAZZ SERVES UP PERFECT NIGHT OUT - Red rose petals rain down on a lady poised on a white bed. Snow falls on a young traveller who pines for her lover. One man tries to capture his alter ego in a corridor; another knits himself an identity from a giant ball of multi-coloured yarn. These are just some of the lingering snapshots that emerge in the dark fantasy world of While Others Sleep, a seductive blend of dance and jazz that will premiere at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts from Thursday 12 to Saturday 21 August 2010. For the first time Expressions Dance Company (EDC), Judith Wright Centre and acclaimed jazz trio Misinterprotato join forces to present an intimate cabaret-style show of sensual physicality and revealing tales of eccentricity and hidden identities. |
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| BRISBANE BRACES FOR ROCK’N’ROLL CABARET DEBAUCHERY - Brisbane should brace for a “wild ride of rock and roll cabaret debauchery” says acclaimed spoken word artist and vocalist Ghostboy, who will perform alongside Golden Virtues with a guest appearance by Martin Martini in Swallow and Exit at the Judith Wright Centre on Friday 6 August 2010. |
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| AWARD WINNING JAZZ TRIO BRING A BIT OF SOUTH AMERICA TO BRISBANE - Brisbane audiences will be transported to South America and beyond when Melbourne's internationally renowned Ben Winkelman Trio ignite the Judith Wright Centre stage with their energetic jazz tunes on Friday 30 July 2010. The award winning piano trio will perform new music from their third album, Odysseys (Jazzhead), with original compositions that relish in the romantic and energetic, from Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music to stride piano, Argentinean tango and classical. |
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| AWARD-WINNING BRISBANE SONGSTRESS RETURNS TO THE STAGE WITH INTIMATE SOLO PERFORMANCE - Following the recent success of the critically acclaimed new Australian musical Handle With Care in April, the Judith Wright Centre is thrilled to partner once more with celebrated Australian composer Megan Shorey. Shorey returns to the Judith Wright Centre next month for Just Like Breathing, an intimate and honest concert performance of some of the world’s newest contemporary works coupled with Shorey’s best known repertoire and previews of forthcoming works. |
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| MASTER INSTRUMENTALISTS JOIN FORCES IN BRISBANE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY - Regarded as one of Australia’s greatest experimental musicians, internationally acclaimed pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks) will launch his fifth solo studio album Play Scar as part of the Judith Wright Centre Syncretism series on Thursday 15 July 2010. |
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| FILL UP ON LAUGHS, SONG AND DANCE WITH MOUTH-WATERING NEW CHILDREN’S MUSICAL WOMBAT STEW - Hundreds of Brisbane children are set to flock to the Judith Wright Centre this July to sink their teeth into the delectable new Australian musical Wombat Stew. |
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| JUMP IN BED WITH MADONNA AT THIS YEAR’S REELDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts is thrilled to host the 6th ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival this July, the largest event celebrating the collision of art, dance and film in Australia. |
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| GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATED IRISH BAND TO PLAY AT THE JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE - What do you get when you put five madcap Irish musicians in a recording studio? A Grammy nominated album. The Judith Wright Centre is thrilled to present 2010 Grammy nominated 5-piece Irish band Beoga, direct from sell-out performances at major festival throughout Europe and the USA. |
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| FRENCH CABARET STAR PLAYS BRISBANE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY - The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts is thrilled to announce the inclusion of French cabaret star Caroline Nin in next month’s Brisbane Cabaret Festival program. Nin is a classic femme fatale – sexy, infectious, and so very French. |
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| AUDIENCE TO ADVENTURE INTO MUSIC WONDERLAND - Audiences will adventure into a music wonderland when the new theatre work Music of the Unexpected makes its world premiere at the Judith Wright Centre from Tuesday 30 November to Saturday 4 December 2010. |
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| “PLAY OF THE YEAR” COMES TO BRISBANE - Hailed as “play of the year” by The Sunday Age, Tom Holloway's award winning Red Sky Morning will make its Brisbane premiere at the Judith Wright Centre from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 October 2010. |
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| GROUNDBREAKING BLEND OF DANCE AND JAZZ IS “STRIKING” - Audiences will be treated to a “striking” blend of contemporary dance and jazz when the groundbreaking world premiere of While Others Sleep plays Judith Wright Centre from Thursday 12 to Sunday 22 August 2010. |
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| WOMBAT STEW PHENOMENON TO SWEEP BRISBANE - Thousands of Brisbane children are set to flock to an Australian musical adaptation of the famous children’s book Wombat Stew at the Judith Wright Centre from Tuesday 20 to Friday 23 July 2010. |
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| FESTIVAL HIT SERVES UP DELICIOUSLY WICKED CIRCUS CABARET EXTRAVAGANZA - Direct from critically acclaimed seasons at the Adelaide Fringe, Woodford Folk and Brisbane Festivals comes Briefs, an all-male circus cabaret extravaganza playing at the Judith Wright Centre from Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 May 2010. Briefs Producer and Performer Fez Faanana says audiences can look forward to a “deliciously wicked and thoroughly entertaining” blend of circus, burlesque and theatre in a night of skill, strength, flesh and fun. |
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| SCOTTISH FOLK ICON TO PERFORM FOR FIRST TIME IN OZ - Embarking on his first Australian tour, Scottish post-folk icon Alasdair Roberts will perform music from his latest critically acclaimed album, Spoils, at the Judith Wright Centre on Saturday 8 May 2010. Listed by The Wire as the fourth best record of 2009, Spoils (on the Drag City label) has been described by The Guardian as “a mix of lively jigs and dense fable” that “deftly intertwine ancient and modern”. |
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| GUITAR VIRTUOSO TO LAUNCH NEW SOLO ALBUM - Internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist James Sherlock will launch his first solo album alongside Brisbane’s renowned ten-piece jazz ensemble West End Composers Collective at Judith Wright Centre on Friday 7 May 2010.Audiences can expect to be taken on a sonic journey of transfixing sounds and beautiful melodies when James Sherlock performs 11 tunes from his new self-titled solo album (released on the back of Pinnacles Music). |
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| AWARD WINNING DANCE THEATRE WORK COMES TO BRISBANE - Direct from a successful international tour and sell out seasons at Sydney and Adelaide Festivals, Force Majeure’s award winning dance theatre work, The Age I’m In, plays the Judith Wright Centre from Tuesday 4 to Wednesday 5 May 2010. |
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| AMERICAN MUSIC MAESTRO RETURNS TO OZ - Internationally acclaimed world music virtuoso and slide guitarist Bob Brozman will embark on his next Australian tour, including a one-off Brisbane performance at Judith Wright Centre on Thursday 29 April 2010. |
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| RENOWNED INDIE BANDS TO PERFORM MUSIC OF BOB DYLAN, JIMMY HENDRIX, NICK CAVE, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND MORE - Following the sell-out success of Murder Ballads Chapter One, a collection of renowned indie bands will come together to perform music by the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix, Nick Cave and Bruce Springsteen for Murder Ballads Chapter Two at Judith Wright Centre on Friday 23 April and Saturday 24 April 2010. |
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| ARIA AWARD WINNING BAND TO PLAY NEW MUSIC FOR BRISBANE - ARIA Award winning band Zulya and the Children of the Underground, who are embarking on a national tour to launch their new album, Tales of Subliming, will perform at the Judith Wright Centre on Sunday 11 April 2010. |
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| WORLD RENOWNED CHILEAN ARTIST TO SERANADE BRISBANE - Direct from Chile, where he has been lending physical aid and performing at benefit concerts in the wake of the country’s devastating earthquake, world-renowned singer songwriter Nano Stern will play the Judith Wright Centre for one-night-only on Wednesday 7 April 2010. Performing in Brisbane for the first time, Nano Stern is touring Australia to launch his third self-produced album, Los Espejos, which was ranked #3 by Rolling Stone Chile in their top 100 albums for 2009. |
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| NO ONE CAN SING AND PLAY THE TRUMPET AS WELL AS NEILSEN - Lauded by the likes of James Morrison and Dale Barlow and likened by critics to Chet Baker, jazz singer and trumpet player Neilsen Gough will perform for one-night-only on Saturday 20 March 2010. |
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| NEW MUSICAL CELEBRATES BEAUTY AND B*TCH OF BEING A WOMAN - Audiences will be offered a “first-class ticket to the world inside a woman’s head” when Handle with Care premieres at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane from Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 April 2010. |
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| WORLD MUSIC SUPERGROUP TO PERFORM IN BRISBANE - Brisbane audiences will be treated to an “intoxicating” fusion of Indian, Australian and African world music when virtuosic trio Djan Djan launches its new self-titled album at Judith Wright Centre on Friday 19 March 2010. |
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| STATE BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND SLEEP INSPIRES NEW ART - Inspired by the transitional ‘hypnagogic’ state between wakefulness and sleep, renowned local artist Tom Hall brings his latest installation and performance, The Past Will Betray, to the Judith Wright Centre from Thursday 18 to Thursday 25 March 2010. |
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| CIRCA’S INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED WORK MAKES AUSTRALIAN DEBUT - Direct from critically acclaimed seasons in Germany, Edinburgh and London, Brisbane’s own contemporary circus ensemble Circa will perform their new self-titled show for the first time in Australia at Judith Wright Centre on Wednesday 3 March 2010. |
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| CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DRAMA UNFOLDS AGAINST INTRICATE PORCELAIN SET - Unfolding against an intricate porcelain set, Donna Cameron’s critically acclaimed theatre work The Flowering will return to the Brisbane stage when it plays Judith Wright Centre from Wednesday 10 – Saturday 13 February, 2010. |
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| TIMEART TO HEADLINE NIGHT OF INTRICATE SOUND AND VISION - Internationally acclaimed electronic improvisational outfit TIMEART will immerse Brisbane audiences in a night of intricate sound and vision when they headline Syncretism at Judith Wright Centre on Thursday 28 January 2010. |
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| THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT AUSTRALIAN SINGLES REVEALED - Anyone who’s ever dreamt of perfect love but woken up hung over and naked in a stranger’s bed is invited to laugh along when a new Australian comedy, Often I Find That I Am Naked, plays The Garden of Unearthly Delights at Adelaide Fringe Festival from Friday 12 to Sunday 28 February 2010. |
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| JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE CELEBRATES NEW QUEENSLAND WORK IN 2010 PROGRAMME - Three world premieres of new Queensland works and an array of Australian music, dance and theatre performances were unveiled at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts 2010 Highlights Launch on Friday 27 November 2009.Judith Wright Centre Director Ruth Hodgman says the 2010 programme reflects a new direction for the Brisbane arts venue, which will focus on presenting and producing new Queensland work that engages the wider community. |
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| BREAK-DANCERS AND THEIR SPECTATORS GET ONE LAST CHANCE - Break-dancers and hip hop enthusiasts have one last chance this year to compete in and check out the monthly break-dance competition, Judy Breaks, at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Friday 11 December 2009. Raw Dance Company General Manager Jess Chambers (the sister of So You Think You Can Dance winner Jack Chambers) says Judy Breaks has become "Brisbane’s hottest competition for break-dancers". |
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| JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE TO CELEBRATE NEW QUEENSLAND WORK AT 2010 HIGHLIGHTS LAUNCH - Three world premieres of new Queensland works and an array of Australian music, dance and theatre performances will be unveiled at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts 2010 Highlights Launch on Friday 27 November 2009. Judith Wright Centre Director Ruth Hodgman says the 2010 programme reflects a new direction for the Brisbane arts venue, which will focus on presenting and producing new Queensland work that engages the wider community. |
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| INTERNATIONAL TRIO PERFORMS IN AUSTRALIA FOR FIRST TIME - Touring Australia for the first time and starring Brisbane’s own multi award-wining pianist and composer Sean Foran, international trio Vehere will perform for one-night-only at Judith Wright Centre on Saturday 19 December 2009.Audiences can expect to be “mesmerised” by the gentle vocal melodies and emotive ballads of Vehere says pianist Sean Foran, who joins Belgian clarinet player Joachim Badenhorst and Norwegian vocalist Kari Bleivik. |
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| DIRECT FROM NEW YORK, LONDON AND EDINBURGH COMES TOM TOM CREW - Direct from selling out 21 consecutive shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and seasons in New York, London, Sydney and Adelaide, Tom Tom Crew will premiere in Brisbane at Judith Wright Centre from Wednesday 25 November until Saturday 12 December 2009. |
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