Enmore Theatre, October 7 6.5/10 Were flamenco dance a mating ritual it would surely be the world’s most elaborate, seeing off an exotic bird or two. Here the dancers were Charo Espino and Angel Munoz, who each had their particular strengths. With Espino it was the arching shapes and jutting…
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FRONTIER LULLABY (cdbaby.com/Artist/AlesaLajana) 7.5/10 This was eight years in the making, with Alesa Lajana wandering Australia, researching post-invasion interaction between blacks and whites. The lunar right and their shrill apologists will hate it. They prefer using terms like “black armband view of history” to sweep away inconvenient truths about atrocities.…
Foundry 616, October 10 8/10 Back in the halcyon 1970s and ’80s, before Donald Trump had been invented and when all was more or less well with the world, Sydney hosted one of the planet’s most thriving live music scenes; one that fostered a phenomenally successful music export industry. Exceptional…