ARTS ALIVE PGM 28 - 2004 TX: 4:04 Eastern Time, 12 July 2004 THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 29' 57" Hi and welcome to this week's edition of Arts Alive, arts and culture current affairs radio... I'm VINCENT O'DONNELL* I'm ANNA BRAIN and I'm JESS MYLES* On today's program* The Australian Ballet School turns forty and plans celebrations in September* Also* a report from a conference* The Rebirth of the Museum* that challenged some traditional notions about museums. Our guest is actor TONY LLEWELLYN JONES* one of the cast of the latest DAVID WILLIAMSON play* AMIGOS. It's a Sydney Theatre Company production, currently on stage at the Melbourne Theatre Company* and we'll also meet ANDRIS TOPPE who's in the Sydney Dance Company production, Shades of Grey. Both shows are soon for Canberra. And Nina Marie reviews* Spider Man. NEWS: (approx. 4.00) Ends approx. 5.20 Item 1: Aust. Ballet School, Dame Margaret Scott / Marilyn Rowe (5.35) Starts with: The School* Ends with: *music Music by Rachmaninov* the second movement of his second piano concerto. It is the score for the ballet* Ascesion* choreographed by LEIGH ROWLES* for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Australian Ballet School. It will be part of two performances* in Melbourne at the State Theatre on Friday 24 Sept and Saturday 25 September. A conference was held last week that attracted academics and museum professional from around South-east Asia & the Pacific. It was called The Re-birth of the Museum? (question mark). Vincent went along and asked one of the organisers* DR CHRIS HEALEY* why was there a question mark in the conference title* Item 2: Museum Conference, Dr Chris Healey (4.58) Starts with: I guess what we're interested in doing* Ends with: *more creative, more accessible places for the general population. DR CHRIS HEALEY* one of the organisers of the The Re-birth of the Museum? conference. So how accessible is your local museum and what stories is it telling you? TRACK 1: sounds from the Polyglot Puppet production 'Baggy Pants' (ends) 17 min 40 sec Item 4A: Tony Llewellyn Jones (9.16) First words: Last words: * ends approx 26.56 Track 2: Walking on Water by Sarah McGregor END VOICE 27 min 00 sec END OF PART ONE 29 min 57 sec Item 4B: Tony Llewellyn Jones (8.10) First words: Last words: * Track 3: sounds from the Polyglot Puppet production 'Baggy Pants' The Sydney Dance Company has been touring their new ballet*Shades of Gray* and its last stop this year will be Canberra from the 14th of July. NINA-MARIE PETRIK caught up with company member ANDRIS TOPPE* who's been with the company from its humble beginnings* and first asked ANDRIS how the company coped without Artistic Director* GRAEME MURPHY* who was on sabbatical last year... Item 5: "Shades of Grey" (Sydney Dance Company) (8.14) First Words: Graeme occasionally goes away to do other projects, so we were... Last Words: ...and what an extraordinary part...it's a gift to be given, hmmm. ANDRIS TOPPE* from the Sydney Dance Company* speaking with NINA-MARIE PETRIK. And their last performances this season will be*Shades of Gra"* at the Playhouse in the Canberra Theatre Centre, from the 14th to the 17th of July. To book call Canberra Ticketing on 02 6275 2700 or go to www.canberraticketing.com.au. Now here is Nina Marie again* she's been scaling tall buildings with Spider Man* Item 6: Film Review : Spider Man (3.06) Starts with: Ends with: ...XXX stars. 52 min 20 sec And that's the show for this week. Next week we expect to have singer songwriter Kev Carmody as our guest* and we'll also talk to the senior manager of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra* PANG SIU YUIN. The ARTS ALIVE team this week has been Nina-Marie Petrik, Vincent O'Donnell, Nicole Findlay, Anna Brain, Kate Stowell and Jess Myles. ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC. We receive the financial support of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ... the assistance of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University. The program is available on the satellite service of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA and on audiocassette and CD from THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE. And the spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com Track 4: 'Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" by AC/DC END VOICE 52 min 34sec PROGRAM ENDS 55 min 50 sec APRA Details: Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec. Sting 1: "Discone"/ Pinau / Pinau /OS/ 857 383 1942/ 10 secs Sting 2: "Journey Agent"/ Pinau / Pinau /OS/ 857 383 1942/ 10 secs Track 1: "unknown"/Polyglot Puppets/ Polyglot Puppets/ CP/ no code/ 30 secs Track 2 "walking on water"/ Anthony Partos/ Sarah McGregor/ CP/ WOWSAMPLER/ 3 minutes Track 3: ""unknown"/Polyglot Puppets/ Polyglot Puppets/ CP/ no code/ 90 secs Track 4: "Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"/ M. Young/ AC/DC/ CP/ 7243 8 23966 2 8