Sunday, 03 August
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we repeat Virginia Trioli's interview with Britain's most famous living sculptor, Antony Gormley; Fenella Kernbone visits the Brisbane Festival; and 'Aboriginal Moomba', an exhibition about Indigenous Australian performers in the 1950s.

Brisbane Festival
Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taiwan is bringing a very different kind of show to this year's Brisbane Festival. This unique theatre company is known for fusing Eastern and Western traditions and has already produced a number of other classic texts from the Western canon, including King Lear and Waiting for Godot. The Kingdom of Desire will be the first production that the company has brought to Australia and it's a pretty impressive show. There are 22 actors who dance, sing and perform martial arts, all accompanied by a live Chinese orchestra. The Kingdom of Desire is on at the Brisbane Festival from the 23 - 26 July.

Aboriginal Moomba
'Aboriginal Moomba' profiles an exhibition titled Making a Show of it: Indigenous Entertainers and Entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne that celebrates and documents the landmark 1951 theatrical production An Aboriginal Moomba: Out of the Dark. 1951 marked both the Centenary of Victoria and the 50th Anniversary of Federation in Australia. This Indigenous performance was staged at Melbourne's Princess Theatre and received critical and popular acclaim. It was an important event at the time, bringing an Indigenous voice to the celebrations. It was also the origin of the word 'Moomba'. The exhibition can be seen at the City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall from 8 July to 20 August, and is curated by renowned visual artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser.

Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley is Britain's most famous living sculptor, creating large scale works based on the human body. His majestically proportioned Angel of the North sculpture, located in the working-class town of Gateshead in England, stands five storeys high with wings that match the span of a jumbo jet. It was recently described by Australian art critic John McDonald as "Britain's answer to the Statue of Liberty". Virginia Trioli caught up with Antony Gormley when he returned to Australia late last year for Ataxia, an exhibition of sculptures from his Block Work series held at the Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne.

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 – Sunday, August 03 at 7:30pm