Melbourne Festival

Arts and Culture Editor Maxim Boon has poured over this year's program of cultural delights. Here are his top tips of the best from the fest.

Teodora Casetellucci’s choreography and the dancers' performances are authentic and engaging.

The three panellists were intelligent, charismatic and thoughtful arts facilitators and it was an absolute pleasure to sit and hear them talk about their experiences.

The heavily existential subject matter is magnified by celebrating her discomfort on stage and the audience is attracted to her extreme ordinariness.

Very now, very Chunky, very bloody good.

While some of the language may pass over their heads, the sheer joy they experience at the visual and tactile nature of the house prevents them taking much else in anyway.

The forced combination of two art forms produced an overall piece of which no one interpretation will be the same. A lesson in the ambiguity of meaning.