Greetings CarriageWorks friend,
CarriageWorks is currently showcasing two unmissable seasons of dance so it’s the perfect time to experience Australia’s leading movers and shakers all in the one venue!
ATYP’s VX18504 opened last week to a very warm and charmed audience, showing off a very talented ensemble of young performers. There are only a few performances left, so don’t miss out. Read the VX18504 review in The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Dance Company’s World Premiere of Rafael Bonachela’s 360 Degrees opened this week. We’ll be posting all the news and reviews on our website as they roll in, so stay in touch!
Also this month, CarriageWorks is offering you the chance to get your hands on earlybird tickets for the return season of Force Majeure’s The Age I’m In. See the special offer below for all the details.
Plus tickets for the new musical extravaganza, Risky Lunar Love are now on sale. The show features choreography by John O’Connell (Academy Awards, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge) as well as live new music from Machine Gun Fellatio. Get in early, tickets are bound to walk out the door.
MIKE PARR | FREE EXHIBITION
ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
The inaugural exhibition of Anna Schwartz Gallery Sydney presents a solo project of photographs, documenting the performance works of Mike Parr from 1971 - 2008.
DATES NOW UNTIL 16 AUGUST
OPENING TIMES TUES - FRI 11AM - 7PM | SAT 1 - 7PM
VENUE ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY AT CARRIAGEWORKS
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VX18504 | CREATED BY ATYP + MERYL TANKARD
PRESENTED BY ATYP AND CARRIAGEWORKS
In this exuberant and thought-provoking blend of theatre and dance, Meryl Tankard explores the origins of conflict in our society, from childhood cruelty and backyard brawls to the ravages of war. This new production will be performed by Australia's leading theatre company for young people, atyp, with visual imagery by artist, Regis Lansac.
Read the VX18504 review in The Sydney Morning Herald
DATES NOW! UNTIL 2 AUGUST
TICKETS $22 / $18 + BF
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360 DEGREES | WORLD PREMIERE BY RAFAEL BONACHELA
PRESENTED BY SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY
Born in Barcelona, award winning London-based choreographer, Rafael Bonachela has been described by ID Magazine as among "the hottest of international talent." Rafael describes himself as a movement junkie and the exploration and experimentation of pure movement is his motivation.
SEASON NOW UNTIL 16 AUGUST
TIMES 8PM | SATURDAY TWILIGHT PERFORMANCES AT 4PM
TICKETS A RESERVE $59/$53 | B RESERVE $48/$43 | SATURDAY TWILIGHT PRICES A RESERVE $53/$49 | B RESERVE $43/$38
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THE BLAND PROJECT
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
Directed by visual artist/performer Alan Schacher, founder of the infamous Gravity Feed, The Bland Project is a contemporary movement work performed within a video landscape.
DATES 7 – 9 AUGUST AT 8PM
MATINEE 9 AUGUST AT 5PM
TICKETS $30/$25/$20 + BF/$15 STUDENT RUSH THURS
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ECR
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
ECR. is a new installation commission by Sydney-based visual artists Marley Dawson and Christopher Hanrahan. Working at the intersection of conceptual art, performance and raceway culture, Dawson and Hanrahan transpose an operable dirt-bike track into CarriageWorks.
OPENING 7 AUGUST 6PM
DATES 8 AUGUST–6 SEPTEMBER
TIME 8PM
ARTIST TALK SAT 9 AUG AT 3PM
PERFORMANCES WITH SPECIAL GUESTS EACH SAT 7PM
TICKETS $30/$25/$20 + BF/ $15 STUDENT RUSH WEDS AND THURS
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BERNADETTE WALONG’S groundUP!
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
Bernadette Walong returns to Sydney with a new dance work inspired by Indigenous Australian and New Guinean serpent creation stories – The Rainbow Serpent and Water Snake.
DATES 14–16 & 20–23 AUGUST 8PM
MATINEE SAT 23 AUGUST 5PM
TICKETS $30/$25/$20 + BF/ $15 STUDENT RUSH WED & THUR
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LIVE WORKS | WORKSHOPS, TALK EVENTS & PERFORMANCES
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
Experience a series of intimate events in and around the vast spaces of CarriageWorks, created by an extraordinary line-up of artists making work at the intersections of visual arts, sound and performance cultures. Expect to participate… to be intrigued, enthralled, provoked.
LIVEWORKS MEMBERS SHOWS: Peter Fraser’s Tarkovsky’s Horse; Linda Luke’s Borderlines; Aphids’ miniature percussion work Underground; Panther’s offsite work This is not a playground; PACT’s Speech Givers; Nalina Wait’s Dual; version 1.0 & Paul Dwyer’s Bougainville Photoplay Project; plus works-in-progress by Rosie Dennis and Martin del Amo and more.
FREE EVENTS: Duncan Speakman & Will Jarrett’s Audio Walks around the neighbourhood; Roza Ilgen’s In My Shoes and more.
WORKSHOPS Data Visualization – an introduction to scientific visualisation tools and techniques run by David Rye, Steve Scheding, & Mari Velonaki from the Centre for Social Robotics; and TalkWrite – Thinking, Talking & Writing About Your Art run by RealTime’s Keith Gallasch and Virginia Baxter. We currently invite applications for these workshops so please call Kristal on 02 8571 9107 for more info.
DATES 29 AUGUST–7 SEPTEMBER
BUY YOUR LIVEWORKS $50 MEMBERSHIP NOW!
CALL KRISTAL ON 02 8571 9111 (LIMITED NUMBERS AVAILABLE)
CIVIL | PACITTI COMPANY (UK)
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
Robert Pacitti travelled to New York in 1996 to spend time with author and raconteur, Quentin Crisp, and produce a new work taking Crisp's infamous autobiography The Naked Civil Servant as its starting point. CIVIL uses live performance, film, slides, original sound materials and music to explore issues of liberty and disobedience.
DATES 29–30 AUGUST
MATINEE 23 AUGUST 5PM
TIME 8PM
TICKETS $30/$25/$20 + BF
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NIGHT TIME #6 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
7 x 7 minute works from artists across all disciplines, curated by Rebecca Conroy and Rosie Dennis.
DATES 31 AUGUST
TIME 7PM
TICKETS $15 + BF
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FINALE | PACITTI COMPANY (UK)
PERFORMANCE SPACE @ CARRIAGEWORKS
For Finale the UK’s acclaimed Pacitti Company joins forces with 12 of Sydney’s inspired performance makers, to bring you one from the heart. Based on Emile Zola’s text 'Thérèse Raquin' Finale is a visceral performance work full of sexual obsessions and jealous distractions, played out against the hypnotic repetitions of a minimalist soundwork.
DATES 5 – 7 SEPTEMBER
TIME 8.30PM
TICKETS $30/$25/$20 + BF
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RISKY LUNAR LOVE
PRESENTED BY 504 PRODUCERS
Possessing an un-earthly blend of sci-fi sass, Risky Lunar Love is the most hilarious tiki-sci-fi musical on earth! Featuring music by 3K Short from Machine Gun Fellatio, a night of singing, dancing and seed-stealing destruction awaits when a sexy alien invader manipulates the desires of two rival science-fiction writers in a bid to destroy our planet!
DATES 18 SEPTEMBER – 4 OCTOBER
PREVIEW 15 SEPTEMBER 8PM $29
TIMES TUES - FRI & SUN AT 8PM, SAT AT 5PM & 9PM.
TICKETS $55/ $45/ $30 + BF
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SYDNEY CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL
CARRIAGEWORKS
In the October school holidays, Sydney Children’s Festival rocks into CarriageWorks and transforms every corner of this immense building into an artistic playground for Sydney children aged 5 – 15. Mark it on your calendar now - block out the whole holidays! There are loads of performances, workshops and free activities for every child to get stuck into.
THE PETTING ZOO
Meet Erth’s awesome prehistoric creatures, from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants. Ancient life-like dinosaurs are alive and mostly friendly (!) in this fun, educational and unique performance event that will delight children of all ages. BOOK NOW
JUNGLE FEVER
You’ll want to run away with the circus after Aerialize’s new circus show, Jungle Fever, a wild adventure tale inspired by characters from The Jungle Book and Tarzan. Aerialize’s highly skilled youth and professional circus performers will astound you as they swing and swoop from the rafters, and wow you with their daring trapeze, acrobatics and clowning - and then try it yourself in the circus skills workshops. BOOK NOW
DATES 27 SEPT – 11 OCT SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
TIMES MON – FRI 10AM – 4PM (CLOSED SUNDAY)
TICKETS The Petting Zoo and Jungle Fever $16 / Group +10 $13.50 / Family $60
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THE AGE I’M IN | SPECIAL EARLYBIRD OFFER!
FORCE MAJEURE AND CARRIAGEWORKS
Force Majeure’s sold-out season of The Age I’m In received audience and critical acclaim during its premiere at Sydney Festival 2008. Force Majeure’s distinctive dance-theatre language is brought to life by five generations of diverse Australians, fused with state of the art audio visual technology. The Age I’m In highlights how predictable and surprising our opinions and experiences really.
EARLY BIRD TICKET OFFER $25 adult / $20 conc. Available for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday performances at 8pm. Book through Ticketmaster before 31 August.
CARRIAGEWORKS ARCHITECTS WIN MAJOR AWARD
CarriageWorks' Architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer were the recent recipients of the Architecture Award for Public Buildings, as well as the top Greenway Award for Heritage at the Australian Institute of Architects’ NSW Architecture Awards. The Jury said:
“The Eveleigh Carriage Workshops are of national cultural significance as part of the largest intact, high quality workshop site from the steam era in Australia. It has now been opened to the public in a creative new way. This landmark site has been given new life without forsaking the old - its 1888 industrial heritage clearly evident through the retention of nearly all the significant fabric and equipment extant at the time of adaptation.”
Read more information about the NSW Architecture Awards
Read more info about CarriageWorks' Architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
GALLIPOLI SPECIAL OFFER FROM SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
Drawn from letters, diaries, contemporary reportage, film footage and official documents, Gallipoli features the STC Actors Company on stage with the third year acting students of NIDA.
Sydney Theatre Company is offering CarriageWorks friends the chance to win a double pass to Gallipoli at Sydney Theatre, Friday 1st August at 8pm.
TO WIN Email marketing@carriageworks.com.au with your full name, contact details and ‘Gallipoli’ in the subject heading.
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ARABIAN NIGHT SPECIAL OFFER FROM GRIFFIN STABLEMATES
Part fairy tale, part noir thriller and part nightmarish adventure, this theatrical freefall tells the story of two lovers, a beautiful insomniac, a voyeur and a caretaker, whose lives become intertwined one hot summer night…
Griffin Stablemates is offering CarriageWorks friends the chance to win a double pass to Arabian Night.
TO WIN Email with your full name to newsletter@griffintheatre.com.au and quote “I had a weird dream”.
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