Exit interview: Tim Newth AM, Tracks Dance Company

From active listening to rethinking what it means to be an Australian artist, Tim Newth reflects on a 35-year practice in the Northern Territory.
Tim Newth exit interview. A black and white photo of a diverse group of performers in a rehearsal room. Tim Newth, a older man, stands at the rear holding a wire-framed fish prop over his head.

Last year, Tim Newth AM was finally able to experience a performance by Tracks Dance – the much-admired Northern Territory company he co-founded and helped guide for many years – without knowing anything about the work in question.

‘This was the first time I’ve ever been to a Tracks performance in over three decades where I had no idea what was going to happen, who was going to be in it, anything about it. And I was just so, so overjoyed with that experience,’ Newth tells ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts