This week's host was Ralph Mclean.
Dance, theatre and regular featured in Yartz. They return only rarely, but The Trocks are a very special dance troupe. Beginning as fun for winding-down ballet dancers in boho corners of New York City in 1974, the Trocks now take their extraordinary skill and artifice and humour to locations around the world.
We had the chance to catch up with Christopher Hampton, an Australian dancer who is now a fully fledged Trock.
Earlier this year, we found Gabrielle Nankivell at Melbourne's cutting edge dance venue DanceHouse rehearsing for a short season. We caught some rehearsal work as well as meeting Gabrielle.
It's November, it's Melbourne so therefore it's La Mama Theatre's annual Exploration Season. Week after week, three night exposures of new and developing work are featured in the grand ole dame of Melbourne's experimental theatre.
One of the most regular contributors to La Mama and the Explorations Season is Lloyd Jones. Lloyd met up with Ralph Mclean to explain the idea of the season as well as how it's done.
By contrast, Beng Oh is directing Porcelain a second time around. Starting out as a production at La Mama, it was being remounted at The Dog Theatre in Footscray prior to accepting an invitation to an arts festival in Canberra.
News was back! Martin Schoo was there to dish it up to us. For Picks of the week, we had Cry of the Marwig, Shooting Balibo and Happy Times--with Fiona Jordan, Scott Gooding, Misha Adair and Bernard Caleo.
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