By Kathleen Smith Questions of embodiment frequently crop up in this current post-pandemic moment. There’s tension between the newly urgent drive to digital and the inescapable fact that we live in bodies that are not machines, that need connection and company. We look to technology for better or longer lives, flesh enhanced with gadgets or
By Kristen Lawson Josephine Baker: singer, dancer, actor… spy? The American star is best known for headlining the Folies Bergère in the Roaring Twenties and walking her pet cheetah through the streets of Paris on a diamond collar. It seems impossible for someone so recognizable to carry out covert operations, yet that is exactly what
By Deborah Jones A conventional production would have been the safe way to go when staging the first Swan Lake in West Australian Ballet’s 70-year history. Artistic director Aurélien Scannella had other ideas. His company is based in Perth, a city strung along the Swan River in Noongar country. How might local Aboriginal stories and