Performing Arts

Recording the experience, not just the numbers
Brand, innovation, risk, and legacy are the real contributors to record-breaking audiences numbers in our galleries.

Festival app makes adventurous art accessible
A new app helps festival performers, producers and creators avoid the time-suck of development logistics to focus on making great…
Vale David Page
The award-winning composer and Bangarra artist in residence has died suddenly aged 55.

Bad Jews
Harmon’s script is breathtakingly wordy; it must hold some sort of record for words-per-minute, it’s clever, full of stinging venom…

On the move: latest appointments and resignations
A new board for Music Tasmania, MAAS gets a new Senior Curator, James Brown t becomes Head of Circus Studies…

Peddling
Peddling is enriching, soul crunching, yearning stuff where it is a privilege to be an audience member.

Geelong stakes its claim as an arts destination
With art in unusual places, plans for a green corridor, and continuing tradition in a contemporary songline, there are many…

Anti-burnout advice for freelancers
Fluctuating workloads and financial pressure is a recipe for burnout in freelancers. We've collected strategies to help identify and defeat…

Arts SA funds Edinburgh Fringe push
More than $55,000 in funding has been invested in profile-building for SA artists at the world’s largest arts festival.

No money for contemporary art but plenty for history
Current funding priorities mean we close a contemporary arts space while spending millions commemorating the past.