What a weekend! Hurly Burly’s burlesque darling Polly Rae performs at the Factory and the Sydney Festival explodes across Sydney with free events such as Norman Jay playin tunes from a double decker bus in Hyde… This Weekend in Sydney: from Polly Rae to Manu Chau; Fairy beach to Performance Carnivale
Sarah Wilkins’ New Year Leap I just had to share this New Year sketch by my favourite illustrator, Sarah Wilkins. Sarah, who hails from New Zealand, is based in Belleville in Paris and I hope to be… Leap into 2012 with Sarah Wilkins
As Australian jazz singer Wendy Lee Taylor takes a break from her regular Lido de Paris dinner set gig for a trip back home to Melbourne, French songstress Carolin Nin has returned to Paris from… Wendy Lee Taylor & Caroline Nin at the Caveau des Légendes
If you’re in or near Sydney or Paris this Friday, here are two events bound to be a blast. SYDNEY The sensational Christa Hughes is launching her album ‘Christa Hughes and the Honky Tonk Shonks’… Friday 11th November in Sydney and Paris- Christa Hughes & Texas Couscous
Ruby TV is attending the final concert of the Australian cabaret duo with a difference Jazmin & Monsieur P at the gorgeous St Germain jazz club in Paris, Caveau des Légends! It’s on 27th October from… RUBY TV to shoot at JAZMIN & Monsieur P concert and party in St Germain October 27
If you’re in Sydney, don’t miss the hilarious and talented Vashti Hughes in her …one woman show. It’s historic, theatrical and bound to be thoroughly entertaining. Wish I were there. You’ll all have to… Vashti Hughes’ historic and gripping Sydney show now playing!
Just caught up with producer Alex Boden in his London office. Alex was featured in this Ruby TV/Screen Australia video from the Cannes Film Festival at the co-production luncheon co-ordinated by Creatives Loop. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1IHRohkFI[/youtube] Alex’ company … An Anonymous Pistachio at London Film Festival
Voici the lastest graph montage teaser of a selection of 2011 snaps by Julien Thonnard. Here is a recent article of Ruby’s in Vive La France that includes an interview with Thonnard about Paris street… Back to the Belleville Streets
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If you’re in Paris and you missed the last tap jams, Baroc or the Paris Burlesque Festival, this week there’s time to catch up. Tuesday 11th October is a very special edition of the Paris… This week in Paris- Tap Jam + Concert
From 20th to 23rd octobre 2011 if in Paris, swing by the La Galerie Florence Leoni from a splash (or crash) or contemporary art with Cutlog, presenting artists Guillaume Cabantous, Christophe Chassol, Thomas Fontaine, Baptiste… Art, windscreens and mountains
It’s going to be a full week for tap in Paris. Paris tap jam is having its second session on Tuesday 13th September and on Wednesday 14th, Harlem trained, Barcelona based French tap dance diva… Tap in Paris with… Roxane Butterfly!
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When visiting Guelma recently, 10 year old Toutou insisted I catch the bus with him to go and see ‘some photos’. It was a hot and steamy afternoon and a siesta seemed more on the… Salon de la Photo – Guelma!
Sunday morning coffee at Belleville’s Folies café is always a vibrant affair with the fresh graffiti works being created in the adjacent alley. This week it was refreshing to see girl graffers on the scene.… Girl Graffers on the Belleville Scene- ‘Meufs Ki Osent’ (Chicks Who Dare)
The weekend of Tap On Barcelona was filled with masterclasses (Roxane Butterfly, Maud Arnold, Jason Janas and Lee Howard), a gala performance from the masters. Here is the closing shim sham… …Also, a tap jam… Tap On Barcelona 2011 Wrap
Wednesday to Friday was a whirl of 20 hours of exercises, routines, jams and rhythmic encounters. Roxane Butterfly, Maud and Jason took masterclasses tday. After learning some Jimmy Slide steps from Roxy and sweating through… Tap On Barcelona- Whirling Classes & Roxane Butterfly
For many at the Tap On Barcelona festival today was about blisters and nerves. Many have danced over 20 hours in three days and tonight was the cutting comp! My new friend Renata from Brazil… Tap On Barcelona Day Three
