Don't Miss These Must-See Shows At Sydney Festival

Dance

Spectra

Dancenorth
Featuring sets by revered Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima, this danced dialogue between Japanese and Australian culture fuses a yearning physicality with sophisticated interactive technology.

When & Where
11 — 15 Jan, Seymour Centre

Inheritor Album

Company 605
How does our past influence our future? Find out as the streets hit the stage in this fresh fusion of urban and contemporary dance, galvanised by dynamic projected animations and throbbing electronic sounds.

When & Where
15 — 19 Jan, Carriageworks

Blood On The Dance Floor

Ilbijerri Theatre Company
Jacob Boehme's achingly beautiful, fiercely entertaining and surprisingly uplifting dance theatre solo explores the complexities of being HIV positive, gay and Indigenous. You'll laugh, cry and feel profoundly touched.

When & Where
21 — 25 Jan, Carriageworks

Theatre

SHIT

Dee & Cornelius
Patricia Cornelius is one of the country's most extraordinary (and sadly neglected) playwrights. Her defiant, raging portrait of discarded women on the fringes of society, directed by theatre firebrand Suzie Dee, is one of the most relevant and important new Australian works of recent years.

When & Where
17 — 21 Jan, Seymour Centre

Which Way Home?

Ilbijerri Theatre Company
Writer-performer Katie Beckett hits the open road in this touching story of a father and daughter reconnecting with each other, their pasts and their culture as they road-trip home to country.

When & Where
11 — 29 Jan, Belvoir

Home Country

Urban Theatre Projects
Home is where the heart is. Or is it where you lay your hat? Aboriginal Elder Uncle Cheeky guides you through a multi-level exploration (in a multi-level car park) of what it means to be home in our multicultural world.

When & Where
11 — 22 Jan, Colo Lane Car Park

Circus & Cabaret

Humans

Circa
How far can a human body be pushed, stretched, contorted or weighed down? This stripped-back show discards the bells and whistles of the stage to expose and explore the physical and mental limits of our species.

When & Where
13 — 19 Jan, Spaghetti Big Top

Briefs: The Second Coming

The Briefs Factory
Hold on to your corsets huntys: the boys are back in town. If you see just one gender-fuck subversive cabaret show this year, make it this beautiful, bold and bearded celebration of queer fabulousness.

When & Where
6 — 22 Jan, Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent

Retro Futurismus

Davey, Barton, Lumb & Blake
It's cabaret Jim, but not as we know it. Welcome to the weird, wonderful and possibly wired world of B-movie electro-feminist cabaret. Think Peaches meets Barbarella via Marina Abramovich and Dita Von Teese.

When & Where
24 — 29 Jan, Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent