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Performance Guide: A Season in Song and Dance

Compiled by CHRISTOPHER D. SHEAMARCH 30, 2016

Every year, in a vast national park about five hours from Cape Town, revelers gather
to build giant sculptures, play music and then destroy the sculptures in a climactic
auto-da-f. (AfrikaBurn has the same general structure as Burning Man, an outdoor
music, dance and revelry festival in Nevada.) This years festival theme is X, a nod
to the festivals 10-year anniversary. This unusual festival is one part pop music
concert and one part showcase for visual art. Performers include the salsa singer
Marc Anthony, the reggaeton performer Shaggy, the American jazz and funk band
Kool and the Gang, and Joey Alexander, a 12-year-old piano prodigy who broke into
the American market with a performance at this years Grammy Awards. A visual art
festival runs alongside the music. Local and international artists will show work in a
venue known as the arts village, and St. Lucian artists will sell their work at an onsite market.
The director Sofia Coppola, of Lost in Translation fame, will make her opera
directing debut here this spring with Verdis La Traviata, a tragedy about what
goes wrong when a well-heeled Parisian courtesan falls in love. The mixed dance
and opera season includes some lesser-known works by major composers. The
director Damiano Michielettos take on Il Trittico, a trio of short operas by Puccini,
will appear here in April; and in May, the house will stage Le Parc, a ballet
choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, set to music by Mozart. Sasha Waltzs danceheavy adaptation of Hector Berliozs symphonie dramatique, Romo et Juliette
blends the traditional boundaries of opera and ballet. Set on a largely blank stage,
and featuring a chorus of dozens, the opera tells Shakespeares story abstractly. It
will be shown in Amsterdam on dates in April. In May, the company will stage Claus
Guths grim take on Don Giovanni. In Mr. Guths version of the Mozart classic, the

libertine Don Giovanni is shot in the first scene and spends the rest of the opera
trying to fend off death.
Two operas based on Shakespeare anchor the Israeli Operas spring season: A new
production of Gounods Romo et Juliette, plays in April, followed by Verdis bleak
take on Shakespeares Macbeth, in May. That work is directed by Jean-Claude
Auvray, a French director whose career spans roughly fifty years and more than 150
productions. In June and July, the company leaves Tel Aviv for Jerusalem and the
coastal city of Akko for outdoor productions of Rigoletto and Die Entfhrung aus
dem Serail.

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Lindy Kerin reported this story on Friday, April 1, 2016 12:21:00

NT Attorney-General says protective custody laws necessary to protect

women and children

LINDY KERIN: Every year in the Northern Territory, protective custody laws
are used about 10,000 times. Intoxicated people are locked up for their own
protection and for the safety of others. The North Australian Aboriginal
Justice Agency has serious concerns about how the laws are being used and
it's taken its case to the High Court.
The principal lawyer is Jonathon Hunyor.
JONATHON HUNYOR: The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in
Custody highlighted the fact that Aboriginal people come into contact with
police too often and that they die in custody too often because they are
locked up too often.
And that's why we look at powers like this, protective custody apprehensions,
which 90 per cent of the time are applied to Aboriginal people in the

Northern Territory, and we want to make sure that those powers are being
exercised only when they're absolutely necessary.
LINDY KERIN: Jonathon Hunyor says taking someone into custody who has
not committed a crime is a drastic step. He says the High Court case will
seek new safeguards.
JONATHON HUNYOR: What we'll be hoping for is for the High Court to set
down some guidance on the limitations on the use of this power and to really
provide strict limits as to how the discretion that police are given when they
find someone who is drunk and who may commit a further offence or may, in
their view, be a substantial annoyance - we want the High Court to be
looking at what limits there are on that power to make sure that it's used
sparingly and in our view, as a last resort.
JOHN ELFERINK: Well I meet with NAAJA from time to time and they
certainly have not raised the issue with me.
LINDY KERIN: That's the Northern Territory's Attorney-General, John
Elferink. He denies the laws introduced more than 30 years ago unfairly
target Indigenous people.
JOHN ELFERINK: I was a police officer for many years in this jurisdiction and
regularly used the power and I can tell you that whether a person was
Aboriginal or not was not an indicator of the exercise of the power.
LINDY KERIN: NAAJA is arguing that detention should be used as a last
resort. The whole protective custody goes against that though, doesn't it?