Arts

Buzz branches out

Gemma Yates-Round as Anna in <em>Goodbye Jamie Boyd</em>. Photographer: Heidrun Lohr

JUST being a teenager is so often fraught with delight and dread, with problems that seem insoluble and tend to take over one’s life. more »

Ballet "a special delight"

Jayne Smeulders in <em>La Sylphide</em>. Photographer: Jon Green

APPROPRIATELY making its Australian debut on May 17, Norway’s National Day, the WA Ballet production of La Sylphide, by little-known Norwegian composer Herman Severin Lovenskiold, is a special delight. more »

Station photographer steps forward

Alan Arazo with <em>Station</em>

THORNLIE resident Alan Arazo will soon hold a solo photographic exhibition at the Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne. more »

Potholes no barrier to "promised land"

John Conway. Photographer: Andrew Ritchie

WHEN Community last caught up with funnyman John Conway, he spoke about the downside of a life dedicated to laughs. more »

Briton bound to WA

Artist Becky Blair at a friend’s home in North Fremantle preparing for her 10th anniversary exhibition at Gadfly Gallery. Photographer: Martin Kennealey

ENGLISH artist Becky Blair’s first trip visit to Perth in 1996 began with a road trip from Sydney, and a skewed vision of how far apart the two cities actually were, to see a friend she had made while backpacking. more »

Traditional sylph-meets-Scotsman tale

West Australian Ballet artistic director Aurelien Scannella (centre) with Brooke Widdison-Jacobs (centre foreground) and fellow dancers at WA Ballet Centre, Maylands.

LIKE many little girls, Brooke Widdison-Jacobs grew up dreaming about becoming a ballerina but it wasn’t until she was 12 years old that she realised pursuing a career in professional dance was possible. more »

REVIEW Death of a Salesman

John Stanton, Ben O

POOR Willy Loman, a lifetime striving to get to the top of the hill, never quite making it and now rapidly sliding down. more »

Beauty with a helping of horror

Geoffrey Drake-Brockman with the first Coppelia robotic ballerina. Photographer: Andrew Ritchie

LIKE a mad scientist concocting a potion with equal spoonfuls of splendour and horror, artist Geoffrey Drake-Brockman has been crazily busy at work in his Nedlands Perth laboratory, or rather, studio. more »

Mad but serious

Fremantle artist Megan Anderson. Photographer: Andrew Ritchie

DOG owners are an oddly beguiling breed. more »

Portrait of the artist as a (less) young man

Miles NoelFragile States opens in Carlisle on May 4. Photographer: Andrew Ritchie ' />

ONE’S own mortality would surely be the last thing on the minds of most 20-somethings. more »

Salesman brought to life

Josh McConville as Biff Loman, John Stanton as Willy Loman, Caroline McKenzie as Linda Loman and Ben O

IT is regarded as one of the great American plays of the 20th Century and has reduced grown men to tears. more »

Festival ups the ante

Quadriple J: Comedy fesitval director Jo Marsh with comedians Jeff Hewitt (Leeming), John Robertson and Josh Makinda

BRACE yourselves, Perth – a swarm of comedians is about to take over the city and nothing and nobody is off-limits. more »

Show of support

Pamela White with some of her works

A SISTERHOOD of more than 20 women will exhibit their watercolour artworks in Canning Vale this month, led by their teacher Pamela White. more »

Big win for emerging playwright

Yirra Yaakin actors, from left, Shakara Walley (25, Girrawheen), Ian Wilkes (23, Greenwood) and Amy Smith (26, Medina). Photographer: Marcus Whisson

FROM little things, big things grow. more »

Online chat hatched

Carla Adams. Photographer: Elle Borgward

CREATIVITY has always been her forte and for Lynwood artist Carla Adams, the days of creating artwork with paintbrushes and spray cans have been put on hold for a more modern approach. more »

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