Jess Bates
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Ella Gilbert's solo show plays with ideas of constructed femininity. Jess Bates reviews.
Jess Holly Bates on Mike Bartlett’s play Cock, sexual erasure and the problematic way we talk about bisexuality. Contains some spoilers.
Jess Bates revels in the joyous subversions of Nancy Wijohn and Kelly Nash's new contemporary dance work, Lick My Past.
FLAPS: Retouched sells itself as a visceral, honest and celebratory exploration of 'all things VAGINA'. Jess Bates reviews and finds a show that does more to enforce the known than disrupt the stereotypes.
Jess Bates joins the anarchy of Silo's Revolt. She said. Revolt again.
Each night in Onstage Dating, Melbourne-based performer Bron Batten has asked someone she's met on Tinder recently to come and spend some time with her on the Basement Studio stage. On opening night, Casey from Tinder didn't show, so to Plan B: audience surveys filled out pre-show. As Jess Bates found out, this resulted in a wonderful Fantasia of Awkward.
Loose Canons is a series where we invite artists we love to share five things that have informed their work. This week's loose canon: artist, poet and maker Jess Holly Bates
Famous Flora is a missed opportunity to explore the evolving politics of sex work, writes Jess Bates.
