The 2025 Sydney Festival, curated by Olivia Ansell, promises a diverse and captivating program encompassing music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and First Nations experiences.
From kaleidoscopic knitted playgrounds to cowbell-juggling acrobats, from a queered Filipino ghost story, to a Weitou bridal lament, a song-powered Siegfried & Roy biopic, floating glowing whales, a Wild West pioneer town and First Nations music, conversation, cabaret and stories, the 2025 Sydney Festival ’s arts smorgasbord, the fourth and last curated by outgoing festival director Olivia Ansell, licks every summer taste.
欢迎登陆 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 30-April 13) is the largest exhibition of internationally acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei seen in Australia. A retrospective, with two new commissions, its immersive world features films, photography and large-scale installations that traverse a faithfully recreated 1950s Beijing cinema, a heart-rending time-space tale, a retro disco spectacle, remnants of beloved Cantonese yum-cha restaurant Marigold and esteemed Sydney locals performing hip-hop dance moves.(Clark Park, Lavender Bay, Jan 18-19) with the air filled by music performances from composer and multi-instrumentalist William Barton, vocalist and violinist Véronique Serret, saxophone, clarinet and beatbox duo NoSax NoClar, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ VOX and Chamber Singers, oud-virtuoso Joseph Tawadros and his percussionist brother James, and tabla maestro Maharshi Raval.(Palm Grove, Darling Harbour, Jan 4-25) as the sky scraping members of Sydney Trapeze School twirl, fly and teeter with panache.(Jan 11-12, Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company) a cabaret show and personal tribute about the lifelong, and life-changing, effect of seeing Tina Turner perform live at the Darwin Amphitheatre in the Northern Territory in 1993, and how it helped shape a young First Nations boy’s lif
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