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Welcome to a bumper holiday edition of RealTime featuring extensive reviews of two critically important festivals, OzAsia (image above Yui Kawaguchi) and Climate Century; treasurable reflections on writing for RealTime by Richard Murphet and Gail Priest; and a look at how Australia’s Indigenous dance scene is set to change as new companies emerge.

After a year of consolidating our massive archive, RealTime will formally close in April 2019 when the National Library of Australia and UNSW Library launch our entire print output online on the NLA’s Trove. We’ve also been working hard at the preservation of our much admired website. See our new feature, Special Editions, which includes digitised copies of RealTime team coverage onsite of the 1996 (Kosky) and 1998 and 2000 (Archer) Adelaide Festivals and the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) 1997, plus Tributes to RealTime, messages collected in December 2017 when we announced the end of 24 years of non-stop publishing.

To all of our readers, writers, funders and the members of our wonderful Board (Tony MacGregor, John Davis, Julie Robb, Urszula Dawkins, Phillipa McGuinness), we wish you a happy and safe holiday season and a creative 2019, Virginia, Keith, Assistant Editor Katerina Sakkas and Online Producer Lucy Parakhina.

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OZASIA 2018 PERFORMANCE: MORE THAN CULTURAL DIPLOMACY        Deeply engaged by five works in a bracing festival, Ben Brooker writes of their evocations of “displacement, the unsettling of body and being by the effects of colonisation, technology and environmental disruption.”
OzAsia
MY REALTIME YEARS: ART, WRITING & TERROR           At a time when “politics takes no notice” of art, Richard Murphet looks back with passion to the revelatory works he wrote about for RealTime, with a sense of community and a freedom to engage beyond the parameters of ‘reviewing.’
On Having No Style
NOTES FROM THE SOUND UNDERGROUND           Reflecting on her emergence as a writer on (and practitioner of) sound art over two decades, Gail Priest maps a wonderful constellation of artists, events, reviews, video interviews and phases in the development of a diverse and now pervasive artform.
Serious TALK TALK
BLACK DANCE, BLAKDANCE, COMPANIES & CULTURE
In a 2009 interview Bangarra’s Stephen Page worried about the absence of other Indigenous dance companies. In 2018, Jeremy Eccles speaks with BlakDance’s Merindah Donnelly, surveying key players, emerging companies and the politics of funding.
Serious TALK TALK
CLIMATE CENTURY: COUNTERING APOCALYPSE       In acts of radical imagining, performances in Climate Century, produced by Vitalstatistix, place their audiences inside fantasias that evoke imminent doom and surreal alternatives, writes Ben Brooker.
Nicola Gunn
OZASIA 2018:
FEMALE BODIES & BEING

Five artists with international reputations — Chiharu Shiota, Kawita Vatanajyankur,  Anida Yoeu Ali, JeeYoung Lee and Yee I-Lann — thrillingly engage audiences “with a primary focus on performance and on the female body as a site of self-understanding and self-realisation,” writes Chris Reid.
Extended Play
CONTRIBUTOR PROFILE: RICHARD MURPHET
Richard has worked in theatre for over four decades, as actor, director, playwright and teacher (for a quarter of a century at the Victorian College of the Arts). He wrote about theatre for RealTime from 1996 to 2007.
Van Hout
TRIBUTES TO REALTIME:
A COLLECTION

When it was announced in December 2017 that RealTime was drawing to a close, we received 100s of messages expressing sorrow and applauding the magazine’s achievements. We’ve gathered these in one document to become part of our archive.
Return to Escape from Woomera
BANGARRA AT 20:
CIRCLE OF CONNECTION
As Bangarra stages a tribute to the late David Page this week, we return to Jeremy Eccles’ 2009 interview with brother Stephen Page who delivers frank observations about sustaining culture, dealing with protocol challenges, skin politics and his role as elder.

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