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Ambitious and promising
The Jerusalem Post (Israel) 7 Oct 2008
This year, the influential Dance magazine named Benoit Swan-Pouffer's five-year-old Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet as one of 25 US companies to watch. Its 16 dancers move with ease between classical ballet and the most contemporary and cutting edge dance. The company's stated mandate is to explore joyfully the endless possibilities of movement by showcasing the talents of the world's leading choreographers.
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Country Jewish giant
The Jerusalem Post (Israel) 7 Oct 2008
Think Jews and country music and you'll probably come up with Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping frontman of the iconoclastic Texas Jewboys, who is also a humorist, mystery novelist and failed but flamboyant candidate for Texas governor.
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Hybrids of my reality
The Hindu (India) 7 Oct 2008
T.V. Santhosh’s canvases work by taking control of misrepresented truth so that the viewer is forced to bring his/her interpretations while engaging with the images. A conversation with the artist whose exhibition is currently on at the Avanthy Contemporary gallery, Zurich.
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‘I’m a very insecure actor’
The Hindu (India) 7 Oct 2008
With a variety of roles under her belt, Sharmila Tagore now takes the next step: a film in a language she does not know.
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Art Away Day
Moscow Times (Russia) 7 Oct 2008
Timur Novikov was an avant garde artist and the spiritual leader of the St. Petersburg art scene before his death in 2002. Now he is a tourist attraction.
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Not Just Hollywood
The Moscow Times (Russia) 7 Oct 2008
The American Film Festival is coming to Russia for the third time. The event runs for five days and brings a wealth of offerings for filmgoers to choose from.
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Flying high on the wings of friendly critics
The Daily Star (Lebanon) 7 Oct 2008
An award-winning movie can be a puzzling thing. It's not that the films are themselves puzzling (though at times they are), nor the fact that they receive festival recognition. It's simply odd sometimes that a given film is greeted with the ballyhoo that it is.
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No sexy centerfolds in new Iranian paper launched by Ahmadinejad ally
The Daily Star (Iran) 7 Oct 2008
No sexy centerfolds in new Iranian paper launched by Ahmadinejad ally.
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- Writing & Publishing
Boxes, stories and string, but not enough depth to write home about
The Daily Star (Lebanon) 7 Oct 2008
'Music Box' just scratches the surface of female Lebanese domesticity.
Lost in Translation? A Swede’s Snub of U.S. Lit
New York Times (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
If you’re John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo or Joyce Carol Oates, you don’t have to worry about whether the phone bill has been paid. You won’t be getting the call from Stockholm next week.
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Importing a passion for poetry
The Guardian (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
If we could read the poets that move huge audiences elsewhere in the world, would it wake up our own?
Govt agrees to art royalty re-sale plan
The West Australian (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
Struggling visual artists will receive a boost from the federal government through a new royalty resale scheme.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Jon Cattapan's Valley Nights a multi-layered work on 'mad' locationArticle
Courier Mail (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
JON Cattapan's massive work Valley Nights is as vibrant, colourful and multi-layered as the place that inspired it.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Dancenorth dancers on tour with Underground production
Courier Mail (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
UNDERGROUND, the latest Dancenorth production to tour Brisbane, was born after Gavin Webber was inspired by Tokyo's vending machines.
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Opera Queensland explores cyber bullying and Beethoven
Courier Mail (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
OPERA Queensland's 2009 season will be nothing if not eclectic, offering a youth opera on cyber bullying to a debut production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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- Music
Outrage at Beaconsfield mine tragedy musical
ABC Online (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
A musical satirising the Beaconsfield mine disaster has been slammed as insensitive by a Tasmanian mayor.
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Decision on controversial artwork postponed
ABC Online (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
A Hobart City Council committee has deferred making a decision on a controversial structure proposed for Blinking Billy Point at Lower Sandy Bay
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
- Design
Old-style trouper and a rock of the theatre
The Australian (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
LAURENCE Olivier called it hand-touching: the tradition of theatre whispered down from the great Shakespearean actors of centuries past to future generations. It still happens on the modern stage and it is one of the things that theatre people remember most about the musical-theatre star Rob Guest, who suddenly died yesterday.
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Taking a closer look at Indonesia
The Australian (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
WHAT do most Australians know about Indonesian art? What role do the arts play in the picture they present of contemporary Indonesia? Not much, perhaps.
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- Visual Arts & Crafts
Robert Helpmann: the great servant of movement remembered
The Australian (Australia) 7 Oct 2008
WHEN Robert Helpmann strode into the rehearsal room at the Sadler's Wells Ballet in London, Ninette de Valois took note. "This unknown young man impressed me with a strange sense of power," the doyenne of dance later recalled. "Here, possibly, was an artist of infinite range."
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