Snake Sessions, by multidisciplinary performance company Branch Nebula, a Helpmann Award winning work that has toured to 13 skate parks across regional Australia. Photo: Adam Scarf.
On a recent interstate tour with his company, Gravity & Other Myths’ Artistic Director Darcy Grant found himself somewhat reluctantly involved in a special public space performance, the kind of activation event that if he’d had the choice, he probably wouldn’t have signed up for.
‘Like many in the sector, I have been worried [about] the rising cost of living and a general slide away from live performance towards other forms. I know it’s something that needs to be addressed, but before that performance in the shopping mall, I didn’t know how,’ he continues.
ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
