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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985

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The Warumpi Band ‘Black Fella, White Fella’ — Powderworks

Tharunka · Monday 14 October 1985 · page 23

The Warumpi Band have been playing around the ‘country’ for quite a while now: from the back of Alice Springs to the glamorous heights of the Sydney Trade Union Club. Black Fella, White Fella marks a…

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THEATRE Stilettoes, satire and a bit of scandal Scandals, a cabaret not in the Weimar tradition, showing at the Belvoir Street Theatre until November 5, thence Melbourne

Tribune · Wednesday 16 October 1985 · page 11

Scandals is advertised as a cabaret in the Weimar tradition. If that is the case, why were only the women…

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Israeli flag dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 October 1985 · page 27

Senior Bellevue Hill public school students perform a traditional Israeli flag dance in the school grounds. Maurice Belleli, of the Belleli National Dancers, is a regular guest teacher at the school. He also teaches…

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Theatre Times Katz — another tale!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 October 1985 · page 30

The world-wide success of Andrew LloydWebber’s musical, Cats, has led to a…

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Theatre Times Another revival, another hit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 October 1985 · page 15

There was a time when the firm of J.C. Williamson, top of the live theatre hoop in Australia and New Zealand, was disparagingly referred to as The Revivalists…

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THEATRE Teenage idolism revisited

Tribune · Wednesday 23 October 1985 · page 11

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, showing at the Ensemble Studios Rep Theatre, 269 Miller…

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New works for dance company

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 October 1985 · page 21

Graeme Murphy, artistic director and chief choreographer for the Sydney Dance Company, has created two major new works for his company of 19 dancers…

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The Arts New Habimah season THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 October 1985 · page 31

THE NATIONAL Theatre, Habimah, opened the season with much ado immediately after Rosh Hashana: three new productions on…

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Theatre Times Famed wit lives in Q’s new play

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 October 1985 · page 21

The Penrith Q Theatre’s production of The Parker Pen, devised and played by Pamela Morrissey and Kate Richter, does some service to one of the outstanding literary personalities (we won’t say “great writers”) of a…

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Slum gets a new face The Jerusalem Post's Abraham Rabinovich describes the transformation of two buildings in a distressed Jerusalem neighbourhood. Aliza Auerbach took the pictures

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 October 1985 · page 32

IT IS the last place in Jerusalem one would expect to find romance - a grim, battleship-grey neighbourhood that still looks like the…

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Opera House Bach concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 October 1985 · page 23

Young Australian pianist, Sarah Grunstein, will make her Opera House debut next month in a series of three recitals playing the complete J.S.Bach…

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THEATRE Witty dialogue and intricate structures The Real Thing, a play by Tom Stoppard. Sydney Theatre Company at the Drama Theatre Sydney Opera House

Tribune · Wednesday 30 October 1985 · page 11

As the play begins, Max sits alone in a lounge room, building a house of cards. Charlotte arrives home,…

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THEATRE Overwhelmed by domestic drama A Touch of Silk, a play by Betty Roland. State Theatre Company of South Australia at the Playhouse, Festival Centre Adelaide

Tribune · Wednesday 30 October 1985 · page 11

What makes me decide to WW see a particular play? In the case of Betty Roland's A Touch of Silk, there were a number…

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Theatre Times Real Thing Is Real Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 October 1985 · page 14

So impressed were we by the quality of the physical production, the directing, the acting and the play itself that as soon as the interval lights went up, we had to nudge our columnist neighbor and ask how it stacked up against the…

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For Abc Concerts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 October 1985 · page 15

Soviet-born Israeli violinist, Boris Belkin, heads the list of ABC concert artists for 1986. Other Jewish artists to…

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Bernstein leidt concerten van Concertgebouworkest

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 1 November 1985 · page 4

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Theatre Times Nida wins with vintage comedy hit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 November 1985 · page 15

The last time we saw the current crop of final year Nida students on stage, they gave an exciting account of an horrific trilogy, The Greeks…

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Talented pianist’s Bach concert at Sydney Opera House

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 November 1985 · page 39

Whereas Johann Sebastian Bach completed the 48 preludes and fugues of his The Well-tempered Clavier towards the end of his life, early in her musical career an Australian pianist, Sarah Grunstein, performs the work at…

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Volley-ball

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 November 1985 · page 16

L'opération "commando" du volleyball français est déjà une réussite. an avant le "Mondial" en France, volleyeurs tricolores, vainqueurs,…

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In a melancholy mood THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 November 1985 · page 42

THE ACRE Festival Alternative Theatre, as in previous years, is now supplying the general public with some interesting performances. The…

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