Review: Assembly for Sydney Festival 2012
16th January 2012
"THERE are 60 performers on stage in Assembly, yet, curiously, one person seems to be missing.
It's not a dancer; there are six magnificent bodies writhing and crawling and leaping about the 6m-high staircased stage, their lithe limbs echoing the ebb and flow of the angelic voices of the choir.
It's not a singer; the 50-strong members of the Victorian Opera and the Sydney Philharmonic Choir fill every crevice of the Angel Place City Recital Hall with choral crescendos that raise goosebumps.
No, it's a conductor that I've been waiting to see appear from the darkened wings, something I only realise when the performers slither into their final formation." Click here to read more.