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Image courtesy of https://vanessawest.com.au/the-puccini-effect As the saying goes, behind every great man there is a great woman. In the case of Giacomo Puccini, however, that sentiment may be more accurately expressed in the plural. Celebrated as one of history’s greatest opera composers, Puccini gifted the world enduring masterpieces such as La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, works that continue to captivate audiences more than a century after their creation. Yet whil

All images courtesy of Dancenorth Australia Melbourne-based choreographer and director Alisdair Macindoe brings his innovative contemporary dance work Plagiary to Townsville for a limited three-night season. The production might be likened to a sophisticated and thought-provoking reimagining of Simon Says, with an AI-generated narrator delivering real-time prompts to the performers through earpieces, who must respond immediately with movement and choreography that has not bee

Going into this show, I’ll admit I wasn’t particularly familiar with Luca Brasi’s catalogue. To prepare, I spent some time diving into If This Is All We’re Going to Be, the album at the centre of their current tour celebrating its 10-year anniversary. Around the time Luca Brasi first started appearing on Triple J, I was gradually making the switch to commercial radio, where the soundtrack of my own youth was easier to find and my young kids were less likely to encounter the o