Sunday Arts Magazine

23 Aug 2015

Orry-Kelly, Confusion For 3 (dance), Composition Comp, The Horse

Arts, Music, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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Our hosts will be having a break soon. David for 1 week and Brendan a 5 week European trip! Both went to see NGV’s exhibition The Horse today and were very impressed. They talk about it with curator Ted Gott later in the program.

Brendan saw the Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood exhibition on at ACMI from 18th August 2015 to 17th January 2016. Orry-Kelly was an openly gay Australian costume designer who presided over Hollywood’s heyday from 1930s to 1950s. Seeing the costumes in the flesh was a WOW experience for Brendan and included a dress from Les Girls (1957) for which Orry-Kelly won an Oscar and an unusual piece from The Dolly Sisters (1945) with eyes all over it. The recent doco about Kelly Women He’s Undressed will be shown from 5th September as well as films where his costumes were worn such as Some like it Hot (1959) and Les Girls in September and October.

Later Brendan talks briefly about a doco he saw at the launch of the Israeli Film Festival called the Matti Caspi Confession about an Israeli musician.

Special Guests today are:

Dancer Shian Law and Composer Duane Morrison from Arts House. Both have worked closely with choreographer Jo Lloyd and another dancer, Rebecca Jensen, putting together their latest production Confusion For Three on from 26th to 30th August. Duane describes it as about recognising habits and diverting from them in every choice that’s made. He and Shian both talk about their background, their creative process, working together and the new production.

2 people associated with the Orkeztra Glasso Bashalde talk about it, and a composition competition they’re running now. This ‘Orkeztra’ is a community one based in Northcote, and plays folk type music from all over the world. This year they are running their second Music Composition competition (deadline 30th August) as part of Darebin Music Feast 23 October – 1 November 2015 which is open to anyone in Victoria who’s a composer or aspiring composer to write a tune for the orchestra to play. They’ll perform the winning pieces at a concert on 1st November at the Northcote Town Hall. Last year’s winner Omid Shayan talks about his experience.

Curator Ted Gott from the NGV is back to give more behind the scenes information, anecdotes and highlights about the exhibition The Horse on from 14th August to 8th November. Ted and fellow curator Laurie Bensen had to trawl through NGV’s 62,000 artworks and counted 1000 horse-related ones before they stopped counting. 262 are on display and cover many eras and art types including paintings, photos, sculptures, drawings, textiles etc. They are divided into themes such as Spirit, Pleasure, Sad etc. Spirit for example is where artists celebrate the majesty, beauty, power and mythical quality of the horse.