With the Melbourne Festival under way, various exotic species are at their most visible. Their cryptic modes of display include violent flopping about and listless wafting, in no discernible pattern.
Dancers congregate in troupes, several of which are notable for attracting endless publicity.
Converted industrial spaces, modish cafes. THE ARTS CZAR VERY rarely seen in the open at other times of year. The Arts Czar often takes a mate from a film or publishing environment. Whenever it makes an appearance, it attracts flocks of submissive members of lesser species, who serenade it with faint cries for food. It lives in an odd symbiosis with the financially powerful.