Saturday, January 19, 2008

Eugene - ART!

It has been a weekend of Sydney Festival for Kim and I. Started yesterday with a free event at Darling Harbour called Water Fools. Being free we were early to get good seats. Being raining, we also got wet. So sitting for 2 hours plus for the delayed show to start did not left us in the best mood but the show was fun and impressive nonetheless and the weather was nice enough to give us no rain for the duration of the performance.

This morning we got up extra early to trek out to Martin Place to see if we could score some Tix for Nix, a promotion Sydney Festival has on to encourage more people attending these things rather than paying the $50-80 prices that is standard for each show. We rock up about half hour before the booking office opens and line was already quite extensive such that, by the time it got to us, everything was sold out down to our 4th (and last) choice, Mortal Engine.

So have just got back from that and have got to recommend those still in Sydney to go see it. It is a contemporary dance piece but the visual and audio elements were amazing and were much more engaging than the usual subjective chaos that is contemporary dance. Signal and noise; light and shadow - amazing show.

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