Performing Arts

Do galleries have a responsibility to commission work?
Risk and new creative territory are core to commissioning for some institutions, building visibility and viability in the arts ecosystem.

Hope for new arts funding in Victoria
Increased arts funding in Victoria is on the agenda for the Minister, delegates at ArtsHub 2016 Conference were promised.

Plexus
Exquisitely constructed but oddly cold, this hybrid work by choreographer Aurélien Bory dazzles but does not move.

Lungs
Lungs is simultaneously funny and savage, rational and irrational, mundane and profound.

Career spotlight: Set designer
In our latest Career Spotlight, Skin of Teflon is the advice to budding set designers, and strong communication to ensure…

Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster
Recreating the concept of performance as art, Nicola Gunn crosses boundaries between artforms and genres in this exciting work.

Another Other
A take-no-prisoners ghost-train ride into horrors within.

$1 million gift launches new theatre foundation
The biggest gift in this major’s history has kicked off a new endowment fund.

On the Move: latest appointments and resignations
A major appointment is made in the performing arts, a search begins in the museums sector and artists are named…

Do less, but do it more consistently
As creative people, we do too much. Local writers and arts workers tell us how can we overcome the fetishisation…