This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Zahra Newman’s five-star Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Stephanie Lake’s exuberant Manifesto, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, and The Song Company at Trinity College Chapel.
DANCE Stephanie Lake’s Manifesto returnsA transcendent tribute to Billie Holiday,You need no small measure of audacity to channel a star as original as Holiday, and prodigious vocal and acting talent to be able to transfigure the art of impersonation from cheap trick into miraculous resurrection. Zahra Newman pulls off a rare feat. Lady Day lives again in this tour de force.
Conventional wisdom would have you believe Billie Holiday inimitable, so I’m not sure how Newman does it, but then, no explanation could fully account for the inspiration the star found in life’s cruelties, either. “If you can’t be free,” as Dove’s ode to her ends, “be a mystery”.rose instantly from their seats to applaud this most extravagant excursion into effervescence.is a work for nine dancers and nine drummers.
It’s a propulsive, headbanging tour de force. The dancers in their white rags – designed by Paula Levis – respond with explosive jump turns that corkscrew in midair and power kicks. They punch and shake and dive headlong across the stage. It’s a performance that is nothing if not spirited. There are two downbeat solos for dancer Samantha Hines that open moody gaps in the hour-long performance, around which the rest of the work builds. In these moments Hines is choked and suffocated, gripping her throat and caught in the vertical death of tensed muscle.is that although much of the choreography has the vivacity of and charm of populist spectacle, the dramaturgy is not as intricately shaped or as consistently energised as it might be. After an hour, it all seems a bit samey.
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