Performing Arts
Applause: Latest funding and awards announced
Winners of Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards revealed, Victorian writers compete for $100,000 prize, Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, plus more arts…
9 techniques for generating game changing ideas (from the archives)
From group drawing to dissident behaviour, stealing innovation to tricking the brain into being creative, Nicole Velik of The Ideas…
Faust, Opera Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne (VIC)
Despite some heavy-handed religious imagery, this Opera Australia production is emotionally moving and a treat for the eyes and ears.
Hansard, National Theatre Live (screening nationally)
National Theatre Live brings us the first play from actor/playwright Simon Woods, directed by Simon Godwin. Hansard is an 80s…
Olivier Messiaen – Turangalila-Symphonie, Sydney Opera House (NSW)
A thrilling success hampered by an unsatisfactory acoustic.
New report confirms arts' benefits for health, aging and wellbeing
Commissioned by think tank A New Approach, the report adds to the growing evidence that arts and culture has major…
On The Move: Latest sector appointments and departures
Leading choreographer joins Flinders University as Professor of Creative Arts, Auckland Arts Festival announces new AD, new Director for St…
ICYMI: A wrap of this week’s arts news
The Secret Garden returns with Warlow, James and Diana Ramsay gift $38m bequest to AGSA, Theatre Royal open for tenders,…
Nils Frahm, QPAC (QLD)
Frahm creates a musical world in which any sound is possible: an explosion of choral singing, a robotic chittering, metallic…
New Breed, Carriageworks (NSW)
Four innovative young choreographers create new dance works on members of the Sydney Dance Company, resulting in riveting moments of…