Sydney Festival 2012: This is Our City in Summer - January 7-29

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Festival First Night is just the beginning of the city's annual three-week celebration.   Sydney Festival is an explosion of exciting theatre, dance, music, exhibitions and talks that takes over the city, celebrating uniquely Australian work as well as welcoming companies from all over the world. 

As part of the opening weekend, the Festival celebrated Australian Indigenous culture with Black Capital, a suite of theatre, music, exhibitions and a symposium that reflect Sydney's diverse contemporary Indigenous culture.  On Sunday, Sydney's history was told from the black perspective, with the world premiere of I Am Eora.  Audiences were captivated by six Indigenous divas from Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, as they told stories of life on the road and in the spotlight in Walk A Mile in My Shoes.

Across town, cabaret sensation Meow Meow seduced audiences with Little Match Girl, performed in a 100 year old Belgian Spiegeltent; and at Belvoir St Theatre the new theatre piece Buried City examined the essence and cost of the bricks and mortar around us.

Sydneysiders and visitors know Sydney Festival is the most wonderful summer festival in the world - a claim underpinned by the city's lustre and charisma, making it an ideal showcase for the world's great artists.  In the following three weeks, Sydney Festival will welcome works by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, legendary theatre director Declan Donnellan, the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland, two-time Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey and the versatile Mike Patton.

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