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Healing through dance
NEWS.com.au – Jun 2, 2007
It encases that precise moment in a time capsule. "Rings’s approach to the subject transcends blame – she sees her work as part of the healing process. "What really moved me about making this piece is the resilience of the people that even atomic devastation didn’t break their connection to the land. It’s extremely inspiring to younger people like me. It’s about acknowledging that these things have happened but let’s make sure that they don’t happen again. "X300 forms part of a double bill in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s forthcoming performance True Stories. The other is a piece by Elma Kris a newcomer to the choreographic scene who has been with the company since 1997… It’s extremely inspiring to younger people like me. It’s about acknowledging that these things have happened but let’s make sure that they don’t happen again. "X300 forms part of a double bill in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s forthcoming performance True Stories. The other is a piece by Elma Kris a newcomer to the choreographic scene who has been with the company since 1997. Her work Emeret Lu meaning "very old things" is inspired by dances from Murray Island in the Torres Strait. It’s an exuberant celebration of a community’s joy in the rain wind and the hunt. True Stories is one in a long line of performances by Bangarra Dance Theatre that offer a refreshing approach to subjects with a deep historical and cultural resonance.
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Washington Post – Jun 2, 2007
New theater shows feature B-boys who in Korea sometimes combine their syncopated hip hop beats with traditional Korean folk percussion to fuse new with old. At a three-day international dance battle that ends Sunday B-boys from around the world praised the attention in South Korea saying it was almost unheard of anywhere else today. The Korea Tourism rganization city government and major companies sponsored the competition. "Korea is definitely leading the way" said Joe "Jorawk" Stolte 24 a member of the "Massive Monkees" crew from Seattle. "It’s really dope that the government here supports B-boy culture. "B-boys trace their origin to the Bronx in New York in the late 1970s when they performed their stylized movements at street parties during the intense sections of hip hop songs referred to as the "break.
Raging bulldust
NEWS.com.au – Jun 2, 2007
"For the first six months he lost every fight. Then he drew one then never lost. We’d taught him some footwork and he used to dance and dazzle ‘em. When he was finished he hung his boots up in the Country Club Hotel in akey and one by one sorted out these locals who used to bash him at football and around the town. "Steve Aczel Australia’s youngest amateur light heavyweight at 16 youngest professional light heavyweight at 19 and an Empire champion still hangs out with Brophy looks after the challenger’s corner. He’s fought in the tent he’s fought around the world. "But I’m a tent-boxing groupie… He weighs in around 85 kilos stands 183cm tall in his fancy jeans and looks fit. There’s still a cigarette dangling from his lips and he looks like a young Robert Mitchum squinting through the haze. After another show break for beers and toilet Pretty Boy Floyd comes out hard and gives Macca a workout. Brophy stops this one when the challenger gets a cut under the eye cajoles another would-be from the crowd and Pretty Boy polishes him off with sharp style. And now for the last bout of the night – it’s Leon Robbo versus Kid Valentine. Been dying for this all night.