DECKCHAIR FLICKS

Films NOT showing at this dance-on-film event include Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance. If you are still reading this than you’d be glad to know that the selection of films chosen to screen on a big screen in the courtyard of the Riverside Theatres are a toe-tapping mix of the new (Mao’s Last Dancer, Every Little Step, This Is It), the well-loved (Hairspray, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Billy Elliot), the essential 80s (TAP), the real (The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Every Little Step, La Danse – Paris Opera Ballet) and the poetic (The Red Shoes, Only When I Dance). Films NOT included on opening night, anything with Astaire and Rogers. Bring it on! (KS)

Jan 18-23, 6pm for talk/documentary, 8pm for a live dance performance by Western Sydney Dance Action and film, The Courtyard, Riverside Theatres Parramatta, cnr Church & Market Streets, Parramatta, $10, 8839 3399, riversideparramatta.com.au