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Articles by Christine de Matos
The theatre of war: how the Anzac story has been retold through dance for 80 years
The story of the Anzacs has been represented through art from the beginning. The film Hero of the Dardanelles (1915) recreates the landing at Gallipoli. Official war artists were commissioned to document the conflict. One of the most powerful paintings was the ghostly Midnight at Menin Gate (1927) by Will Longstaff. Banjo Paterson penned an ode to Gallipoli, We’re All Australians Now, in 1915, and novels abound exploring the impacts of war on soldiers and society. What about dance?
Introduction: Classicisms and Modern War in the Long Twentieth Century
Abstract This special issue addresses the entanglement of various expressions of classicism with modern war in the long twentieth century, from the Great War to its centenary commemorations. By revisiting varied expressions and concepts of classicism through broader geographic and temporal lenses and by approaching the various topics with fresh questions, the six essays in this collection bring new findings to the scholarship around classicism and war.
Classical Mateship: A Transtemporal View of a National Ideal
Abstract Several scholars have made visible the links between the classical worlds of Greece and Rome and the construction of meaning in Australia’s Great War, including in CEW Bean’s multivolume Official History of the conflict. However, Australia’s postwar version of special masculine bonding and intimate friendship – called ‘mateship’ – was frequently claimed to be forged on the beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli and became central to Australian identity.
Book review: Nightingale, Laura Elvery
Sixty years before the 1915 landings at Gallipoli there was a lesser-known landing, also in April and again with British and French troops. This one, however, was as allies of the Ottoman Empire, as part of the Dardanelles campaign in the Crimean War (1853-1856) against Russia. This conflict lies at the centre of the lives of Laura Elvery’s protagonists in her long-expected debut novel.
Opera review: Candide, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
With some of the same cast and creatives from the 2024 production in Melbourne, Opera Australia (OA) is presenting Victorian Opera’s latest incarnation of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Sitting somewhere between comic operetta and musical theatre, Candide takes the audience on a journey through a somewhat sanitised and accelerated version of Voltaire’s 1759 novella of the same name.
Theatre Review: Cruise, KXT on Broadway, Mardi Gras
What would you do if given an expiry date on your life? This is a question that drives the narrative of Cruise,written by Jack Holden during the COVID lockdowns. Inspired by his time as a volunteer for the UK’s LGBTQIA+ support line, Switchboard, the play is set in the present/recent times and in 1980s Soho in London during the early days of a different pandemic, that of HIV/Aids.
Visualising the Modern Housewife: US Occupier Women and the Home in the Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949
1. Introduction Operation family, launched a few weeks before, has, as far as he could judge, been a failure—possibly the most disastrous mistake in Occupation policy. Hans Habe (1956, p. 169)1 Occupation studies has yet to thoroughly analyse the role of women as occupiers, especially married women who participated in the mid-20th century occupations after the Second World War.
Akram Khan and telling historical truths through dance
A dancer, in Indian classical Kathak style, appears on the stage and enters into a corporeal conversation with the seated vocalist and percussionist. He wears a clean white cotton kurta, metallic ghungroo around his ankles, jingling as he moves. Watching, you think of human connection, tradition, cultural identity, stability. But the idyllic scene quickly transforms.
The Allied Occupation of Japan - an Australian View
July 6, 2005 Volume 3 | Issue 7 Article ID 1765 The Allied Occupation of Japan – an Australian View By Christine de Matos The Japanese Occupation is generally remembered as primarily an American affair and as a dichotomous relationship between Japan and the United States. However, it was an Allied Occupation, and, despite the persistence of selective historical memories, there was a distinct and at times contentious Allied presence, contribution, and experience.
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