Performing Arts

New Conservatorium of Music announced for Southbank
The $105.5 million development will include a 400-seat auditorium; construction will begin in 2017.

Artists clamour for teaching jobs
Becoming an art teacher is an appealing option for artists but jobs are not easy to find.

How to create wearable design
Costume makers turn 2D into 3D in a career path that can combine performance, film and visual art.

Flip Fabrique
Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival opens with exuberance and panache.

The Elephant in the Room
Surreal circus explores unspoken desires and dreams through extreme, heightened physicality.

The Barber of Seville
Rossini’s tongue-in-cheek, evergreen operatic comedy celebrates its 200th Anniversary.

Come Away With Me To The End Of The World
The curiosity with which the characters hold each other sheds light on small spaces and private moments of existence.

State earns $226 million from musicals boom?
A boom in musicals brought as much money in as the Australian Open tennis and provided 3,000 jobs.

Arts sector silence fails Indigenous peak bodies
Indigenous Arts needs its own peak bodies to enable specific outcomes to the Indigenous sector that the mainstream arts cannot…

How your anxiety is affecting your creativity
'Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity', wrote TS Eliot. But modern research shows the relationship is much more complicated.