WOW at Festival 2018
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Turbine Pl<strong>at</strong>form<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 12.40pm (20 mins)<br />
Sudha Manian — Indian Sitar Player<br />
Deeply rooted in Indian Classical Music traditions, Sudha Manian<br />
started her training in music and dance <strong>at</strong> the age of nine with<br />
her gurus in Hyderabad, India. As a solo artist in Australia, Sudha<br />
considered one of the finest sitar players in Queensland, has<br />
performed traditional Indian Classical Music on a number of<br />
pl<strong>at</strong>forms and collabor<strong>at</strong>ed with diverse artists to compose,<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>e and perform.<br />
Turbine Pl<strong>at</strong>form<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 8.30pm (2 hours)<br />
Up L<strong>at</strong>e — Femioke<br />
Feminist karaoke, inclusionary and celebr<strong>at</strong>ory, a space for all<br />
feminist identifiers, especially young women and non-gender<br />
identifying individuals to sing and be heard. Take the shackles off<br />
your feet so you can dance because Oops!…we did it again, and<br />
FEMIOKE is back! Are you going to tell us wh<strong>at</strong> you want, wh<strong>at</strong> you<br />
really, really want? Is it R-E-S-P-E-C-T and no scrubs? Pick up the<br />
mic and sing your favourite feminist anthems or take back misogynist<br />
songs. Emceed by local karaoke desper<strong>at</strong>e and avid feminist, Amy-<br />
Clare. Hai Si Ja, hold tight! Originally premiered <strong>at</strong> Metro Arts<br />
Turbine Pl<strong>at</strong>form<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 5.15pm (45 mins)<br />
Fan Girls<br />
Turbine Pl<strong>at</strong>form<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 6.10pm (50 mins)<br />
Ruckus Slam — Who Run’s The World?<br />
A 13-year-old girl told Yve Blake th<strong>at</strong> she would ‘slit someone’s<br />
thro<strong>at</strong> to be with the man I love’. She was talking about Harry<br />
Styles. Award winning The<strong>at</strong>remaker Yve Blake will present<br />
a selection of songs from ‘FANGIRLS’, a brand-new musical<br />
inspired by interviews with hundreds of teenage fangirls. It’s a<br />
story of young women, the stories we tell them, and the ways we<br />
underestim<strong>at</strong>e them — with a sound world th<strong>at</strong> is best described<br />
as a ‘Beyonce Concert meets Rave meets Church’. Yve’s here to<br />
tell us wh<strong>at</strong> she found, wh<strong>at</strong> a twelve year old girl taught her<br />
about womanhood, and why Fangirls are her heroes.<br />
Turbine Pl<strong>at</strong>form<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 11.30am (20 mins)<br />
Yuki Taniguchi — Butoh Dancer<br />
A spellbinding performer, Yuki Taniguchi’s<br />
artistic journey began in Japan with an interest<br />
in the power of sound and movement. Trained<br />
in Japan in Butoh <strong>at</strong> Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio<br />
under Kazuo’s son, Yoshito Ohno she has been<br />
sharing this unique Japanese dance the<strong>at</strong>re form<br />
through workshops and performances since<br />
coming to Australia in 2010.<br />
Turbine Studio<br />
Sunday 2pm (2 hours)<br />
Doing Dancing<br />
New Farm Park<br />
S<strong>at</strong>urday 2.45-3.45pm<br />
The Beautiful Game<br />
Football as we know it is descended from an unruly<br />
medieval game in which one entire village pitted<br />
itself against another. The Beautiful Game takes us<br />
back to these wild roots in an exuberant roaming<br />
spectacle. Fe<strong>at</strong>uring armour, an oversized football,<br />
and bike-riding referees, this performance sees<br />
women and non-binary people step onto the<br />
footy pitch, ready to do wh<strong>at</strong>ever it takes for a<br />
common goal. This project has been cre<strong>at</strong>ed by<br />
Snapc<strong>at</strong>, a cre<strong>at</strong>ive collabor<strong>at</strong>ion between the<br />
Australian artists Renae Coles and Anna Dunnill<br />
and presented as a part of Co-MMotion: Brisbane<br />
City Council’s Temporary Art Program <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Ladies to the front. Wh<strong>at</strong> can you do with two minutes on the mic?<br />
A slam is an open mic competition where anyone with a poem,<br />
rap, story, or grocery list they want to share get their time to shine.<br />
Judged by randomly selected audience members it is a rowdy and<br />
high energy event, where anything can happen and everyone gets a<br />
say. Only original m<strong>at</strong>erial. Just your voice and a stage. One of the<br />
largest slam events in Australia, come and w<strong>at</strong>ch Brisbane’s wildly<br />
popular Ruckus Slam run this female-only edition.<br />
Famous feminist Gertrude Stein asks ‘Wh<strong>at</strong> are the personal and<br />
cultural histories of your body?’ Doing Dancing uses Steins text<br />
with Australian dancers and real-time digital projection of the<br />
dancers in the space. Walk around the performance to view the<br />
motion and multiple interpret<strong>at</strong>ions of the text. Sit still and view<br />
the sculptural form<strong>at</strong>ions of bodies. This dur<strong>at</strong>ional performance<br />
reflects on feminism and the potential movement of the female<br />
body. Fe<strong>at</strong>uring Rhiannon Newton (dancer, choreographer) and<br />
Benjamin Forster (acclaimed visual artist) performing with local<br />
Queensland dancers.<br />
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