Vivacity Event Categories
Sydney Festival 2010
Sydney Festival 2010 kicks off with soul legend Al Green headlining Festival First Night. This is just the opener for three thrilling weeks of music, dance, family entertainment, theatre and visual arts.
Just some of the acts rolling into town are Hamlet, Giselle and Oedipus (in a number of guises), followed closely by Grizzly Bear and a cast of rogues (including Marianne Faithfull and Tim Robbins) on the Opera House forecourt …Throw in the Festival’s three free massive outdoor concerts at The Domain and you have a summer of spectacular entertainment.Plus, don’t miss the exclusive free outdoor concert at Parramatta Park by AR Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer of Slumdog Millionaire, and a cast of Bollywood dancers and musicians.
Photography credit - Symphony in the Domain: Trent O'Donnell.
Barely Contained
Dates:
30 December 2009 - 26 January 2010
Venue:
Tumbalong Park
'Fast, funny and sexy… [Circus Oz is] guaranteed to bring out the awed inner child in the grumpiest adult.' - The Australian Internationally acclaimed, and undeniably Australian, Circus Oz returns to Sydney with two hours of exuberant physica ...
Lynette Wallworth
Dates:
7 - 24 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
Sydney artist Lynette Wallworth's three installations are intense, immersive experiences. Wallworth makes skillful use of video and responsive technologies to create deeply emotional and human experiences. Acclaimed around the world as individual pi ...
Hamlet
Dates:
8 January 2010, 10 January 2010, 11 January 2010, 12 January 2010, 14 - 16 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Theatre
'Hamlet rages and blows across the stage, a Gollum on ecstasy, a mama’s boy, spoiled brat, an exploding nerd, who takes his feigned madness so far that it becomes his undoing.' - Süddeutsche Zeitung If you think you've seen Hamlet ...
Optimism
Dates:
8 - 9 January 2010, 11 January 2010, 13 January - 14 February 2010
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
'A rollicking good night.' - The Glasgow Herald Turning a quizzical eye to the woes of the heart, and reeking with scandal and scurrilous vice, this production transforms Voltaire’s classic satire of enlightened insanity, Candide, into ...
Festival First Night
Dates:
9 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney city streets and parks
Sydney’s city centre is transformed into an epic theatre of music, spectacle and surprise with Sydney Festival’s opening event – Festival First Night. Start in the afternoon with family-friendly entertainment in Hyde Park, headline ...
The Arrival
Dates:
10 January 2010, 11 January 2010, 13 January 2010, 13 January 2010, 14 January 2010, 15 January 2010, 15 January 2010, 16 January 2010, 17 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
'From the beginning, The Arrival held its audience in a state of rapture and curiosity.' - The Herald (NZ) What drives so many people to leave behind everything they know to journey alone to a land where the future is unknown? This question ...
Beck's Festival Bar
Dates:
11 - 30 January 2010
Venue:
Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Be the first to experience the new look Beck’s Festival Bar when it returns to the historic Hyde Park Barracks Museum this summer. An eclectic line-up with some of the world’s best live bands and DJs converge in Sydney for 14 night ...
A.R. Rahman
Dates:
16 January 2010
Venue:
Parramatta Park
Sydney is transformed into Bollywood for a night like no other, when Indian superstar A.R. Rahman takes to the stage for this free outdoor spectacular. Rahman, two-time Oscar winner for his work as composer and songwriter on the film Slumdog ...
John Cale
Dates:
16 January 2010
Venue:
Enmore Theatre
'A pioneer who refuses to stop innovating.' NME Founding member of seminal experimental rock band The Velvet Underground, John Cale’s work has had a major influence on Australian avant garde music and art. Musician, singer, songwriter, produc ...
Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra - Summer Sounds in The Domain
Dates:
16 January 2010
Venue:
The Domain
with Vieux Farka Touré 'A jubilant polyrhythmic party of percussion, electric guitars, and Diabaté’s 21-stringed instrument showering notes like a musical waterfall.’ - The Village Voice Toumani Diabaté’ ...
Edge of Elsewhere
Dates:
16 January - 7 March 2010
Venue:
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Edge of Elsewhere is a major three-year project that brings together some of the most exciting contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific to develop new artworks in partnership with Sydney communities. Sydney is one of Australi ...
Toumani Diabaté
Dates:
17 January 2010
Venue:
State Theatre
'On a par with Glenn Gould or Rostropovich—the sort of musician you only encounter once or twice in a lifetime.' - BBC Radio 3 Virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté channels equal parts Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and ancient griot tradition. ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Dates:
19 - 20 January 2010, 22 - 24 January 2010, 23 - 24 January 2010, 26 - 30 January 2010, 27 January 2010, 30 January 2010, 31 January 2010
Venue:
Seymour Centre
'Madly ingenious... brilliant... breathtaking.' - The Independent Following its critically acclaimed run on London's West End, Headlong's radical re-imagining of this celebrated satire comes to Sydney Festival. Six strangers arrive unannoun ...
Dark Matters
Dates:
19 - 23 January 2010, 24 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Theatre
'Think William Forsythe with a woman’s touch, drawn more to beauty than its opposite.' - The Independent Dark Matters is a haunting portrait of the unknown, a performance that pulls itself apart in an attempt to discover what it’s made o ...
Giselle
Dates:
20 January 2010, 22 January 2010, 23 January 2010, 24 January 2010, 25 January 2010, 26 January 2010
Venue:
CarriageWorks
'Brazenly and triumphantly new.' - The Guardian In the small town of Ballyfeeny where the cloud hangs low and people keep secrets for good reasons, a lonely Giselle McCreedy cares for her abusive brother. The town’s inhabitants are qui ...
Diotima String Quartet
Dates:
23 January 2010, 23 January 2010, 24 January 2010
Venue:
City Recital Hall Angel Place
'One of the five quartets you should know about.' – Gramophone Diotima is a string quartet formed by graduates of the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires. Alongside an impressive classical repertoire, Diotima play great music for string qua ...
Wonderful Town - Symphony in the Domain
Dates:
23 January 2010
Venue:
The Domain
Symphony in The Domain is one of Sydney’s favourite ways to spend a summer evening. This year, conductor Paul Kildea celebrates the music of brilliant American composer Leonard Bernstein in a vivacious program showing his genius across a range ...
AAMI Ferrython
Dates:
26 January 2010
Venue:
On Sydney Harbour
The AAMI Ferrython is one of Australia’s best-loved free spectator events. Come on down to Sydney Harbour with your picnic basket and cheer on the little green and yellow catamarans as they race up and down the harbour, battling it out for ...
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Dates:
27 January 2010
Venue:
City Recital Hall Angel Place
'Their music converts rigid form into glorious freedom in the most sophisticated way.' - Evening Standard The mutual ease and intuition of Marcin Wasilewski Trio, one of Europe’s finest jazz groups, is something at which to marvel ...
Medeski Martin & Wood
Dates:
27 January 2010
Venue:
City Recital Hall Angel Place
'Bonded as if in a purposeful and passionate quest to unite the opposites of discipline and spontaneity.' All About Jazz Over the course of their near two-decade career, New York trio Medeski Martin & Wood have made improvisation their language. ...
Happy as Larry
Dates:
27 - 30 January 2010, 30 January 2010
Venue:
Seymour Centre
'Shaun Parker is a creative force to be reckoned with.' - The Advertiser What makes us happy? Nine remarkable performers with nine very distinctive personalities explore the elusive nature of human happiness in Shaun Parker’s latest d ...
Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms
Dates:
28 January 2010, 29 January 2010, 30 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
‘A potent theatrical experience.’ - The New Yorker By Igor Stravinsky With the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Conductor Joana Carneiro, Director Peter Sellars With Rodrick Dixon, Ryan McKinny, Yvonne Kenny, Dan ...
Rogue's Gallery
Dates:
28 January 2010
Venue:
Sydney Opera House
'A serious exercise in musical archaeology and a lot of fun – mournful, bawdy, gory and daft by turns.' - The Guardian A Hal Willner production featuring Marianne Faithfull / David Johansen (New York Dolls) / Tim Robbins / Gavin Frid ...
Leonard Bernstein's Candide - Mazda Opera in The Domain
Dates:
30 January 2010
Venue:
The Domain
With the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra Conductor: Paul Kildea Glitter and be gay! Opera Australia and Sydney Festival join forces for a very special Mazda Opera in The Domain – Leonard Bernstein’s extravagent comedy, Candide. B ...
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