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Pointe: Dancing on a Knife's Edge

Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.

Pointe: Dancing on a Knife's Edge

NR 2025
Sleepless: The Story of Future Classic

In 2004, Nathan McLay quit his day job to start Future Classic, a Sydney record label he hoped would put Australia's burgeoning dance music scene on the world map. It quickly became an incubator of local talent and launched the careers of genre-bending artists like Nick Murphy (formerly known as Chet Faker), Flight Facilities and Flume. This documentary traces the label's growth from a small DIY collective to an unstoppable force in contemporary music.

Sleepless: The Story of Future Classic

8.0 2018
Birds of Tokyo - Broken Strings Tour

In 2009 Perth rockers Birds Of Tokyo came up with an idea to show Australian audiences a very different and unexpected side to the band. By stripping their music back to the barest framework then rebuilding it with acoustic based sounds and delicate orchestration, creating a sonic concept that showcased the complexity and depth in their music. It was with this sound that they took on the road enthralling audiences in sold out venues across the nation. Working closely with renowned producer, composer and long-time collaborator, Anthony Cormican, who had previously written and arranged strings on the band's Day One and gold-selling Universes. Wanting the experience to be more daring and involved than merely picking up acoustic guitars and brushes instead of running with amplifiers and drum sticks; the band performed with a host of instruments - from ukuleles to 12-string guitars specifically incorporating them into an ensemble of string quartet and grand pianist.

Birds of Tokyo - Broken Strings Tour

7.0 2010
Sex, Drugs and String Quartets

The Landau String Quartet come together to rehearse. Together they make wonderful music and yet each has traveled a very different path to become a musician. This dramatised documentary reveals each musician's intimate story centred around the long journey they have traveled with their instrument. Leon, the first-born son of Polish Jewish migrants to Australia is destined to become a great violinist, but his life moves in unexpected directions under the influence of his abusive teacher. Julia loses her innocence and discovers her own deep sensuality through her experience with music, and a handsome conductor. Richard plays the violin to escape his stifling suburban family. He encounters the dark and fearful world of his own psyche on his travels to the city to play.. Christie, a young cellist, throws off the shackles of her disciplined musician's life and escapes on an adventure with a handsome stranger, a journey that ultimately brings her face to face with herself.

Sex, Drugs and String Quartets

NR 2004