RealTime E-dition 6 December 2017

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This week we’re foregrounding dance with reports from Cleo Mees and Nikki Heywood on the Interchange Festival. Produced by Sydney choreographic laboratory Critical Path, it focused on issues of identity, ability and intercultural exchange via forums, workshops, dialogue with international artists and performances, including one by Bhenji Ra [image above]. At Campbelltown Arts Centre, in a brief sold-out season, Angela Goh premiered her intriguing new work about the female body, Scum Ballet, and is soon off to New York in early 2018 to present her 2016 work Desert Body Creep at PS122’s Coil Festival. At PACT, emerging choreographer Thomas E S Kelly and dancer Taree Sansbury premiered Shifting > Shapes, an intense account of physical transformation, performed alongside Fishhook’s FEMMENACE. Also this week, Gail Priest responds to Pipilotti Rist’s luxuriantly immersive retrospective, Sip My Ocean, at the MCA. In our next edition, the last for 2017, we’ll look back at some of the best shows and events of 2017. See you then. Keith & Virginia

INTERCHANGE FESTIVAL: THE START & THE END OF THE BODY Matters of site, proximity, language, alchemical states, excess and ritual constellate around the body in Nikki Heywood's report on the Interchange festival's final day of workshops, talks and forums.

JOLT'S MUSICAL MYTH-MAKING While appreciating the experimentation and sense of joy that JOLT brings to the field of sound-based performance, Elyssia Bugg is uncertain of the capacity of the ensemble's new works to fully engage her.

THE MUTABLE BODY In strikingly expressive productions in PACT's program of new works from emerging artists, Thomas E S Kelly and Taree Sansbury evoke the drama of shape-shifting in Aboriginal culture and Fishhook face female fears head-on.

SERIOUS FANTASIST The retrospective of Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist at the MCA immerses Gail Priest in magical worlds that merge nature and the everyday where grace and beauty find a home, but what more is there to the Rist vision?

FEMALE MAGIC Angela Goh's Scum Ballet is a haunting, ritualistic assemblage of strange tasks and images realised with conviction by five performers who build a world of female power and magic, writes Keith Gallasch.

INTERCHANGE FESTIVAL:
THE POLITICAL BODY
Cleo Mees reports from Critical Path's Interchange Festival on The Political Body, a day of intensive discussions, forums, talks and workshops that engage with culture, identity, ability and how to make change through dance.

THE LOOP: LOUISE BOURGEOIS ON THE INSIDE A superb writer, American visual artist David Salle, responding to a MoMA exhibition, declares Bourgeois' evocation "of the female body as having an inside might be her greatest legacy".

DETENTION FROM THE INSIDE
Behrouz Boochani and Aras Kamali Sarvestani's must-see, darkly revealing 90-minute film, Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, shot inside the Manus Island detention centre is screening in Sydney and Melbourne next week.

UNMISSABLE VIDEO ESSAY
A highlight of this year's RealTime video commissions is Conor Bateman's revelatory account of the way director Kirsten Johnson and her editor structured Cameraperson from decades of footage Johnson shot for leading documentarians.

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