Performing Arts

Ugly Mugs: sex and violence on and off stage
A background on the St Kilda streets, has given a social worker, actress and playwright the content for a disturbingly…

Arts restructure mania
There is no evidence the bigger is better in arts management so why the pressure to collapse functioning arts organisations?

Australia loses a great administrator to Toronto
Biennale of Sydney confirms Chief Executive Officer is moving on.

Why don't our audiences look like a train stop?
We will know we are really tapping culturally diverse audiences when the range of faces truly reflects the population.

White Face
Through its vivid bodily movements and daring originality, White Face deliberately blurs the boundaries between black and white.

Runners become living sculptures
A Scottish artist has recruited local runners to realise artwork for environmental sculpture festival.

A new audience from an ignored demographic
Only 7% of Tasmanians with a disability participate in the arts - a figure that is bad for the sector…

Are you weird enough to be an artist?
Scientists have proved what artists have long feared: From Van Gogh to Lady Gaga audiences judge the artist not just…

Cultural precincts: why smaller arts companies are locked out
Master plans for big city cultural precincts look impressive. So why are smaller companies and artists still missing out?

Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography
Queer and aged 29, Declan Greene has written a raw and detailed exploration of a couple of middle-aged heterosexual losers.