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Secrets of Telling a Good tale revealed...
by Elissa Blake
Sydney Morning Herald May 17, 2013
The key to telling a good story is in the editing, says photographer and storyteller William Yang. Skip over the boring bits. Keep in the embarrassing parts. Speak up and bring photos. Read the full story.
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 Yellowfeather
In Georgina Naidu's humourous autobiographical show, a confused little Indian-Australian girl looks to popular culture to find a home.
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 William Yang was born in North Queensland, his grandparents migrating from China to the Top End in the 1880s. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture at Queensland University he moved to Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance photographer documenting Sydney's social life which included the glamorous celebrity set and the hedonistic, sub-cultural, gay community. His first solo exhibition "Syndeyphiles" in 1977 at the Australian Centre for Photography caused a sensation because of its frank depiction of the Sydney gay and party scene.
In the mid eighties William began to explore his Chinese heritage which had hitherto been lost to him by his complete assimilation into the Australian way of life. His photographic themes expanded to include landscapes and the Chinese in Australia. During this period he made visits to China.
In 1989 he integrated his skills as a writer and a visual artist. He began to perform monologues with slide projection in the theatre. These slide shows were a form of performance theatre and have become his favourite form of showing his work. The third one, Sadness, wove together two themes: William's discovery of his Chinese heritage and the rituals of dying and death in Sydney. The piece has been extremely successful and like his more recent work has toured all over Australia and the world. He has made ten full length works in all, including China, Blood Links, Objects for Meditation and My Generation.
www.williamyang.com
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Paul Cordiero
Paul's eclectic career has seen him dance, teach, act and choreograph for major live events, contemporary dance theatre, opera, community events and commercial musicals.
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 Orientation, The Studio - Sydney Opera House, 23 Sept 2004
Hong Kong City Festival, 13-15 Jan 2005
Adelaide Feast Festival, 17-19 Nov 2005
It's 3am and the city snores. In the ghostly glow of a laptop, a stooped figure taps away. He's blogging (that's writing a web diary, to you cyber-
illiterates). He hopes that by biting, chewing, bubble-gumming and spitting out his day into cyberspace that somehow, somewhere, someone may care. And what a day it's been: the worst dole office in the universe, a disastrous
attempt to launch himself into the sex industry, an online three-way with a bevy of clueless Hong Kong tai tais, and a life-guru who has him walking
on white-hot coals. This morning he was singing "Why Was I Born?", but now he wants to belt out "I Believe I Can Fly". And he would...but his neighbour is a Turkish oil wrestler. Meet them all in Rick Lau's crazy new one-man show.
Accompanied by Lindsay Partridge on the piano
Written by Rick Lau and Tony Taylor
Directed by Melita Rowston
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