Portraits of a Lady
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The Starlet in the ballroom with the candlestick. Or was it the Mobster in the billiards room with the dagger? The clues to this mystery aren’t straightforward, nor are the characters in this story. Australasian Dance Collective’s production of “Halcyon” is an ambitious new take on the whodunit genre—the latest experimental brainchild of Jack Lister. Choreographed in collaboration with the company artists, “Halcyon” explores a world of glamour and murder. Where, as Lister puts it, “adoration and envy are separated by the barest of margins.”
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