Culture

Did the fury descend, or burst? Permian Extinction followed the Permian Eruptions; thus, precedence. I was pretty worried about dying during this long phase of my life, even underwater, greatly upsetting the bioluminescence. As a shrimp, I felt like a little kid. There were no libraries in the ocean then. I had to make do with wild hypothesis, skittering tra-la through the coral reefs and somehow knowing one day I’d wear a T-shirt saying, ‘I Survived the Permian’.

‘Name for your order please?’ The girl behind the counter has no idea what she’s asking of me. She is young and hip and so sure of herself that she only displays half a name on her badge. I remove an AirPod from my ear to speak. ‘Bri, is it?’ She eyes me and I take it as confirmation that I pronounced her half-name correctly – like the cheese. Bri, short for virtuous Brianna. ‘Bri, how about you take my order first. Then we’ll be slightly better acquainted and I’ll feel much more comfortable giving you my name.’

Dance becomes a way of thinking and opening new possibility in Jo Lloyd’s Agitato and Rhiannon Newton’s Long Sentences.

The Netflix documentary series Trainwreck revisits catastrophes both tragic and comic with an overarching lens on the enduring characteristics of human behaviour.

Choreographer and former Bangarra dancer Yolande Brown is bringing all her senses and a deep knowledge of time to her debut work for Queensland Ballet.

Michael Shanks’s supernatural relationship drama Together is less body horror than an angsty study of co-dependency.