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Rapper Lil’ Kim to headline both Vivid Sydney and Melbourne’s 2026 Rising festival

Pioneering artist returns to Australia for first time in 15 years, with poet Kae Tempest and Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti also on lineups of winter festivals

The Guardian - AU

Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice

An Austrian trainer goes to Dubai to work with three teenage sisters, and realises they are trapped. But there is no hero-saviour narrative in Kurdwin Ayub’s film

The Guardian - UK

A Berlin audience has fake faeces thrown at them – and is moved to tears. So am I

We’re surrounded by news images of death and violence. Why do Florentina Holzinger’s visceral stage productions still have such impact?, asks Guardian columnist Fatma Aydemir

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Audience Members Require Medical Attention After Attending Sexually Explicit Opera as Theater Warns Visitors to 'Avert Your Gaze'

Despite its warning message listing potential triggers, a new opera about a nun's sexual awakening is still leaving theatergoers hurling toward the nearest restroom.

Latin Times

“This Is Disturbing”: 18 People Require Medical Attention After Watching R-Rated Opera

"Things happen on stage here that we are not otherwise used to in the opera house." The post “This Is Disturbing”: 18 People Require Medical Attention After Watching R-Rated Opera first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Opera of live sex and piercing leaves 18 theatregoers ill with severe nausea in Germany

Sancta by Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger has been criticised by Catholic leaders as ‘a disrespectful parody of the Holy Mass’

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - AU

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Eighteen treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing

Florentina Holzinger’s bloody Sancta was criticised by Austrian bishops and is now a sellout in Germany

The Guardian - UK

Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger

Live tattooing, non-simulated sex, flesh hook body hoisting and an ejaculating helicopter – these are commonplace in the astonishing shows of Europe’s hottest director. But is her latest just too shocking?

The Guardian - UK

Tanz review: nudity, vomit and walkouts – yet this bloody ballet is beautiful, too

Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger’s exploration of ballet’s dark side is not just provocative but surprisingly thoughtful and hilarious

The Guardian - AU

Tanz review – gross-out body-horror ballet is an unlikely laugh

Florentina Holzinger’s show has inspired audience walkouts but others stay and cheer at its bloody-minded audacity

The Guardian - UK

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