Witness Performance | Joshua Croggon | Friends Activity https://witnessperformance.com/members/jcroggon/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Joshua Croggon's friends. Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:24:08 +1100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-AU 30 hourly 2 4a9123208c913d36a326a33218399d98 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=8188 Wed, 30 Jun 2021 01:22:04 +1000 So long and thanks for all the fish Team Witness – Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Ben Keene – got together for a final podcast yarn […]

]]> 444aa60171c717fe16cb5dee7c943d9a Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=8089 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 04:52:57 +1000 The Witness Interview: Stephen Armstrong and Dan Koerner ‘The experience of 2020 really needs to be celebrated and used as a platform for diving into the future … we mus […]

]]> 0c45022fa1974ceebd6edd6e0279d00a Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=7980 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:28:28 +1000 The Witness Interview: Daniel Schlusser ‘I’m absolutely one for watching a performance that is held by a beautifully written play … but if it’s the onl […]

]]> 3261107cfb520f21daf88a77a15c8773 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=7669 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 03:28:21 +1000 Witness Podcast: Does art matter? Six months into the pandemic, Team Witness meets online to chew the fat on art, life and making meaning […]

]]> 79ead429d3167c6e38b3843fbe8327f6 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=7501 Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:52:48 +1000 Podcast: Spotlight on BLEED 2020 Ben Keene investigates how BLEED 2020 pivoted to existing entirely online after Covid-19 hit in March this […]

]]> 662dfc440ae073bb66e05b11493c6062 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5967 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:49:29 +1000 ‘You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy’

Candy Bowers is an auteur – in her work, she is a […]

]]> 0312c71e4bb2c840ed865de88b085dce Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5911 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:53:50 +1000 Mama Alto’s Torch Songs at the Melbourne Recital Centre shows why she’s one of Australia’s most essential voices, says Ben Keene
Mama Alto is a unique performer who has accumulated a devoted audience for her […]

]]> b3588765557f1504b62c85169b5d6a85 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5859 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:35:54 +1000 ‘I don’t have a process… What I do is put things that interest me on stage.’

In this month’s podcast, Robert Reid talks to the unclassifiable Nicola Gunn, one of Australia’s most important and intriguing […]

]]> afd45efdb7f3b7f54dbb7edc52646d94 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5803 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 04:25:55 +1000 ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ […]

]]> b4b8d8608325a20a8c6255bb0d3c951a Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5607 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:03:43 +1000 ‘We still tend to overlook and ignore the remarkable work of Australians’

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and […]

]]> 93e30a9e8e7e708479192f39660ab1c2 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5366 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:38:50 +1100 Moira Finucane, ‘the patron saint of magpies’, digs into her creative practice in Part 2 of her interview with Ben Keene

In Part 2 of this funny, fabulous and very candid two-part episode of The Witness […]

]]> 766d0b473c8827c4d99e701c76077e45 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=5335 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:34:37 +1100 ‘When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’

In the first part of this funny, fabulous and very candid two-part episode of The Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to the seductive and s […]

]]> 7d23a0c91d8531e3dd27b8ea703d2bde Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4956 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 01:54:57 +1100 Witness Spotlight: The Bridge ‘We’re pulling people out, half dead, half alive…’ Listen to The Bridge here The collapse of the West G […]

]]> 8721882bd27873a6572bf25ff5493469 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4685 Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:19:05 +1100 ‘I’m 37 years old, it’s time I was an evil witch’

For our last Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial […]

]]> 6bf527a4e47574d424d55a6a9975ada1 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4519 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 03:59:45 +1100 In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts.

Further […]

]]> e2c90cd8b5f890585dfecb3e676ce9da Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=4273 Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:35:18 +1000 ‘I wanted to be in a place where I was treated as an adult human as an artist’

For this month’s Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Australian playwright Amelia Roper about making a career in the Uni […]

]]> 676e7937f3b6bc0c99030b350b88f696 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3954 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:20:53 +1000 ‘There are gods walking through performance’

Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? It’s been six months since Witness launched, so founders Robert Reid and Alison Croggon take the opportunity […]

]]> b8431de3023a2896802270cc579b4126 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3864 Wed, 22 Aug 2018 03:59:15 +1000 “We keep reinventing the wheel”

In this wide-ranging interview with Robert Reid, director, actor, teacher and dramaturge Melanie Beddie looks over a lifetime working in theatre, from her beginning at the […]

]]> 13996f32a00e44d6b3c7bfaa3b5661d1 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3737 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:44:21 +1000 “It’s really important to me that my work is generative”

For this month’s interview, Alison Croggon talks to choreographer Lucy Guerin, artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc, about her early career as a […]

]]> 4375fca74d0fbd7f12dcbb07b6a6e9e2 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3756 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:00:19 +1000 “Are we going to be having the same conversations again in ten years?”

In this month’s Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look at the mechanisms of discourse. How do we manage […]

]]> 70c98e38189596f994703e92e6dc77a8 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3616 Wed, 04 Jul 2018 19:43:34 +1000 On The Witness Podcast this month, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the recent controversy around the VCA dance work Where We Stand, which caught the attention of right wing commentators and faced calls […]

]]> 6aee2a503409ec8b7576c02058deb4be Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3541 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 05:20:29 +1000 This month we have a treat: Robert Reid talks to actor, theatre maker and performer Yoni Prior about her work with Barrie Kosky’s first company, Gilgul. Formed in 1990, Gilgul was Australia’s first p […]

]]> 06d22e51e14168b5dcb52579dcbc4a1c Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3438 Thu, 31 May 2018 20:20:49 +1000 Arts funding. It’s not a sexy subject, but anyone interested in Australian culture needs to know how it works. Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Co […]

]]> ebe2e3061cd50cbc8e30f95965ead452 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3309 Thu, 17 May 2018 02:52:19 +1000 For our third Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Jane Woollard, playwright, director and historian.  Woollard has been uncovering the hidden history of women such as Eliza Winstanley Anne Clarke in 19th […]

]]> abd743ceee2bde5e9a5f27ba0e1515a3 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3149 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:00:51 +1000 The Witness Podcast, Episode 3. Recently British critic Quentin Letts caused a storm by suggesting the RSC cast an actor only because he was black. Is this in fact racist criticism? (Spoiler: Yes, it is!) Is […]

]]> 9319a5a6f79ebac6ae624e4c0c57fa7c Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3123 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:13:25 +1000 The Witness Interview: Richard Frankland In this must-listen episode of The Witness Interview, Gunditjmara man Richard Frankland speaks candidly to […]

]]> ec7e7d4ee08a87ab38300a5ac7dcd547 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3008 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:00:39 +1000 In our second Witness podcast, Team Witness gets down to some nitty gritty. Last month, Soda Jerk’s film Terra Nullius was disowned for being “unAustralian” by its philanthropic commissioning body, the Ian […]

]]> f692eac58179b63b6802cadb9eff4e01 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=3017 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:00:34 +1000 Witness sound editor Ben Keene gives us a peek inside his editing studio, and his experience with the “musical illusion”: the song of conversation

The first editing job I ever did involving the spoken word was […]

]]> 23a8dbd36e533d58eb5d7ae27b617da0 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2968 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 23:46:25 +1000 For those who missed our launch and the announcement of the inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic Carissa Lee last month, here’s a taste of what happened on that beautiful autumn afternoon, put together by […]

]]> ea2bde73c964e21fba93a1f5db528d59 Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2880 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 06:53:35 +1100 In the first episode of The Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Patricia Cornelius, playwright, performer and thorn in the side of the patriarchy, remembering the brilliant director Eva Czajor, and di […]

]]> d329d9167546e842e8e6c7ba666b69ae Ben Keene wrote a new post https://witnessperformance.com/?p=2672 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:00:07 +1100 For our first Witness podcast, Alison Croggon, Carissa Lee and Robert Reid discuss the crucial importance of Indigenous critical voices, and ponder how to talk about contemporary dance in the lead-up to our […]

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