Festival Director: Lindy Hume
In Lindy Hume’s first year as Festival Director, Sydney Festival opened with another spectacular Festival First Night. This time the Domain stage was headlined by Al Green, in his first ever Australian performance, along with The Black Arm Band featuring Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter and Dan Sultan.
From the classics to the avant-garde, Circa 1979: Signal To Noise celebrated the unique and influential period when post-punk, new wave, experimental and early electronic styles of music cultivated in a thriving underground scene, heard on Sydney-based labels M Squared and Volition. Germany's prestigious theatre company Schaubuhne Berlin won audiences with Hamlet (pictured above) and Fabulous Beast enraptured with Giselle.
Bringing talks to the forefront, The Scope connected audiences in animated and provocative conversations with a dynamic mix of artists, academics, leaders, thinkers and dreamers. Part think-tank, part performance and part lecture.
FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT
Nigel Jamieson, Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill & The Hillbillies, The Manganiyar Seduction, The Black Arm Band, Hidden Republic, Al Green
THEATRE
Hamlet
Schaubuhne Berlin
Six Characters in Search of an Author
By Luigi Pirandello
In a new version by Rupert Goold & Ben Power
Directed by Rupert Goold
Headlong
Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms
By Igor Stravinsky
The Sydney Symphony and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Conducted by Joana Carneiro
Directed by Peter Sellars
Chorus Director: Brett Weymark
The Manganiyar Seduction
Roysten Abel
Ruhe
Muziektheater Transparant
The Fence
Urban Theatre Projects
DANCE
Giselle
Fabulous Beast
Tempest: without a body
Lemi Ponifasio
MAU
Dark Matters
Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM
Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Balé de Rua
CABARET
Smoke and Mirrors
Directed by Craig Ilott
Created by Craig Ilott and iOTA
ABOUT AN HOUR
Oedipus Loves You
Pan Pan Theatre
Music Alive: Zeeko
One Small Step
Oxford Playhouse
Happy as Larry
Shaun Parker & Company
Love Lost In The British Retail Industry
Isy Suttie
Hugh Hughes in…360
Hoipolloi
Party
The Invisible Dot
Tim Key: The Slutcracker
The Invisible Dot
MUSIC
A.R. Rahman
Al Green
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & Black Joe lewis and the Honeybears
Breakestra, J-Rocc (Beat Junkies) & Space Invadas
Camera Obscura, Slow Club & Popfrenzy DJS
Diotima String Quartet
Dirty Three & Laughing Clowns
DJ Yoda's National Video Vacation & DJ Sampology
FBi Night: The Very Best, Radioclit & Ro Sham Bo DJS
Fink
Fractured Again
Ensemble Offspring
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear & The Middle East
John Cale
Laura Marling
Leonard Bernstein's Candide
Australia Opera And Ballet Orchestra
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Medeski Martin & Wood
Neko Case
Patrick Watson
Rogue's Gallery
Hal Willner
Seckou Keita Quintet
Severed Heads, The Reels & Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) DJ Set
Sharon Shannon Band
The Books
The Handsome Family
Toumani Diabate
Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra
Trevor Jackon, Yen (live) & Future Classic DJS
Vieux Farka Toure, The Mess Hall & Dan Sultan
Winterreise
Schubert/Muller
Wonderful Town with The Sydney Symphony
Sydney Symphony
TALKS
Signal to Noise Sessions
Tom Ellard (Severed Heads), Andrew Penhallow (Volition Records), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Roger Grierson (Thoughts Criminals)
The Scope: 5th Pacific Thought Symposium - Bringing Forth the Ancestors
Lemi Pontifaso
The Scope: Are We Happy Yet?
Dr Geoff Gallop
The Scope: Keynote 2010 - Crisis, Catharsis, Renewal
Sydney Festival and ABC Radio National
The Scope: Microscope - Festival Artists in Conversation with Caroline Baum
Thomas Ostermiei/Lars Edinger (Hamlet), Roysten Abel (The Manganiyar Seduction), Lynette Wallworth, Michael Keegan-Dolan (Giselle), Guy Coolen (Ruhe)
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
Olafur Eliasson
Edge of Elsewhere
Campbelltown Arts Centre, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Bear Witness
Invisible By Night, Evolution of Fearlessness and Duality of Light
Lynette Wallworth
FAMILY
Barely Contained
Circus Oz
Optimism
Malthouse Melbourne
The Arrival
Red Leap Theatre
AUSTRALIA DAY
AAMI Ferrython
