Festival Director: Fergus Linehan
The 2007 Sydney Festival kicked off with a sky borne symphony when seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, taking off at sunrise to fly across the West of the city, in Sky Symphony.
Sydney Festival’s season of performances launched Carriageworks’ Bay 17, an 800 seat multi-purpose venue. The Famous Spiegeltent was also erected in Hyde Park North for the first time. Performers included La Clique, The Necks, Kaki King, Clogs, M Ward, Bossa Nova Hot Club, Joanna Newsom and E.S.T.
More international talent performed with The Gate Theatre Dublin performing a season of Beckett with First Love performed by Ralph Fiennes, Eh Joe starring Charles Dance and I’ll Go On performed by Irish actor Barry McGovern.
Family specific entertainment entered the program with EnergyAustralia Global Family Weekend at Darling Harbour, featuring five special events for children, all for free, with dance, music and animation.
THEATRE
Eh Joe
Gate Theatre Dublin
Performer: Charles Dance
First Love
Gate Theatre Dublin
Performer: Ralph Fiennes
I'll Go On
Gate Theatre Dublin
Performer: Barry McGovern
Lost And Found Orchestra
The Stomp Company
Uncle Vanya
Maly Drama Theatre Of St. Petersburg
Director: Lev Dodin
Crackers?
The World Famous
The Adventures Of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie And Little Ragged Blossom
Company B Belvoir, Windmill Performing Arts
A new musical by John Clarke and Alan John
Adapted from a series of books by May Gibbs
Directed by Neil Armfield
Small Metal Objects
Back To Back Theatre
Seemannslieder
Christoph Marthaler/ZT Hollandia/Ntgent
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Yohangza Theatre Company
DANCE
Telophaza
Batsheva Dance Company
By Ohad Naharin
Kaidan A Ghost Story
Meryl Tankard and Taikoz
Zero Degrees
Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony Gormley, Nitin Sawhney
Mamootot
Batsheva Dance Company
By Ohad Naharin
Devolution
Australian Dance Theatre
By Garry Stewart and Louis-Philippe Demers
Kamuyot
Batsheva Ensemble
By Ohad Naharin
CIRCUS
La Clique
ABOUT AN HOUR
White Cabin
Akhe Russian Engineering Theatre
The Space Between
Circa
Kiss Of Life
Chris Goode
Our Brief Eternity
The Holy Body Tattoo
Flow
Will Power
Structure & Sadness
Lucy Guerin Inc
Taylor Mac
Mousson
Compagnie Au Cul Du Loup
MUSIC
Beck's Festival Bar: Barcelona Sounds
Macaco, The Pinker Tones
Beck's Festival Bar: Crazy Penis
Beck's Festival Bar: Future Classic Night
Jazzanova, Clara Hill, DJ Fitchie, The Resurrectors, Jamie Lloyd, Nathan McLay, Somatik
Beck's Festival Bar: Léo
Beck's Festival Bar: Ugly Duckling
Beck's Festival Bar: Urban Latino
Batucada Sound Machine
Beck's Festival Bar: Violent Femmes
Bossa Nova Hot Club: The Brazilian Lounge
Marcos Valle, João Donato, Roberto Menescal
Clogs
E.S.T.
Jazz In The Domain - Noite Brasil
Oscar Castro-Neves, Airto Moreira
Joanna Newsom
Kaki King
Lou Reed's Berlin
M Ward
Madeleine Peyroux
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Noite Brasil in Prince Alfred Park
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac: In Concert
Symphony In The Domain - From Barber To Bernstein
Sydney Symphony
Conductor: Charles Hazlewood
The Necks
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
Centre Pompidou Video Art: 1965-2005
Junk Theory
Big hART
Sky Orchestra
Luke Jerram, Dan Jones
FILM
Fourteen Storeys + Stickybricks
I'm Your Man
Mariners And Musicians + Lou Reed: Rock And Roll Heart
Movies In The Overflow
TALKS
Eat Drink Talk Art
AUSTRALIA DAY
NAB Ferrython
FAMILY
The World Of Animation
Music Of The World
The Beat and Dance
