Performing Arts

Academy of Ancient Music & Sara Macliver
The Academy of Ancient Music is at the forefront of the movement to perform baroque music in an authentic style.

Arts glaring absent from Tourism Awards
Only one arts organisation got a guernsey among the 33 winners in the Victorian Tourism Awards.

Lily Allen returns, packing heat for feminism
The comeback song from the indie pop songstress takes aim at sexism in the music industry, changing the meaning of…

Education Program to 'keep performing arts relevant'
School students are offered the chance to see both local and internationally-acclaimed productions in 2014.

Listen up and go green
Theatre companies are invited to have a Greenie in the house for 2014 in a new initiative for environmental arts.

'Abundant music talent' recognised in 2013 Melbourne Prize Awards
The triennial Melbourne Prize for Music Awards has been endowed to internationally-acclaimed Australian artists and composers.

It's official: Government endorses value of arts for health
In what may be a world first, Australian health ministers have endorsed a national framework that acknowledges the value of…

Melbourne's next Arts Strategy open for input
Melbournians play a integral role in developing their city's creative and cultural future.

Facing the overstimulated audience
Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..

Space shortage cramping Australia's circus style
Independent circus artists are being forced to create small-scale works as a result of rehearsing in their lounge rooms and…