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The Australian Jewish News – jewishnews.net.au
Friday, September 16, 2011
Six-metre tall sculptures of demonic
infants created by the Russian art
collective AES+F will adorn the city
streets during the Melbourne Festival.
Artistic feast
from the world stage
Leading performers from around the world in the fields of theatre, music, dance and art will star in
the annual Melbourne Festival next month. Dany Gocs looks at some of the Jewish performers
who will be taking part in the event.
T
HE farewell performance by
Chunky Move artistic director
Gideon Obarzanek is one of the
highlights of the Melbourne
Festival that gets under way next month.
And Israeli-born dancer Hofesh
Shechter returns to Australia for the festival with his first full-length work, the critically acclaimed Political Mother, while
the Malthouse Theatre stages Ganesh
Versus the Third Reich, an avant-garde
production from Back to Back Theatre
about a Hindu god with the head of an
elephant who confronts Hitler to seek the
return of the swastika symbol.
Festival artistic director Brett Sheehy
describes this year’s event as the “most
international” of festivals, with artists
from many countries including Israel,
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South Africa, Russia, China and India.
“Our theme of coming together, of
finding what unites us across cultures,
includes works which celebrate what
can be achieved through unity,” he
explains.
Melbourne-based Jewish choreographer Obarzanek, who is retiring as artistic director of Chunky Move after 15
years in the position, is well known for his
genre-defying dance productions.
In Assembly, Chunk