Is R’n’B star Masego really the best ever? You can be the judge at Rising

Is R’n’B star Masego really the best ever? You can be the judge at Rising

Having invented his own brand of TrapHouseJazz,the Jamaican-American saxophonist is heading to town.

  • byMichael Dwyer

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Simping for Harry Styles? Rising’s youngest performers are with you

Simping for Harry Styles? Rising’s youngest performers are with you

Aged between 11 and 22,the stars of Anything&Everything decode their own language in one of three festival shows exploring our online lives.

  • byAndrew Stephens
Mania,pornography and dog barking:Inside the mind of Mette Ingvartsen

Mania,pornography and dog barking:Inside the mind of Mette Ingvartsen

In one of two Rising festival shows,the daring Danish choreographer will not only dance but convulse,gurn,laugh grotesquely and bark like a dog.

  • byStephanie Bunbury
Step 1. Put a piano in a field. Step 2. Light it on fire. Step 3. Hear it burn

Step 1. Put a piano in a field. Step 2. Light it on fire. Step 3. Hear it burn

Piano Burning,to be performed at this year’s Rising festival,is a simple and somehow beautiful musical event:get a piano,and burn it to the ground.

  • byNick Miller
One of these bands is big on TikTok. No prizes for guessing which one

One of these bands is big on TikTok. No prizes for guessing which one

From neo-cute to ultra-heavy,Chai and Boris illustrate two extremes of Japanese music heading our way in June.

  • byMichael Dwyer
Lip-syncing top arias,Scotty So celebrates Chinatown’s past in Rising

Lip-syncing top arias,Scotty So celebrates Chinatown’s past in Rising

With elaborate gowns and arias specially recorded in the Philippines,So will bring operatic glamour to a city carpark in Melbourne’s new winter arts festival.

  • byJohn Mangan
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RISING from the ashes of a 2021 debacle,arts festival set to return

RISING from the ashes of a 2021 debacle,arts festival set to return

Melbourne saw barely a few hours of the 2021 winter arts festival before a pandemic lockdown killed it. This year promises lasers,ice skating and monsters.

  • byNick Miller
Acclaimed production of Wilde classic is heading to Melbourne
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Acclaimed production of Wilde classic is heading to Melbourne

Melbourne audiences will be treated to Eryn Jean Norvill’s tour-de-force performance,playing all 26 characters in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

  • byNick Miller
Wild foxes reclaim abandoned RISING installation as festival folds

Wild foxes reclaim abandoned RISING installation as festival folds

The huge RISING arts festival had planned for almost every COVID contingency. But a full lockdown has killed almost all its 2021 plans.

  • byNick Miller
Counting time,this pendulum art dances in the dark

Counting time,this pendulum art dances in the dark

This installation,where dancers play with an array of dozens of pendulums,features an incredible ensemble of women in a quiet symphony.

  • byAndrew Fuhrmann
‘Devastated is mostly the feeling’:Rising organisers vow they’ll be back

‘Devastated is mostly the feeling’:Rising organisers vow they’ll be back

The lockdown has closed Melbourne’s huge new winter arts festival,but its directors vow we will see the work that was to have been staged over the next week.

  • byNick Miller andKerrie O'Brien