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This week's arts news and trending topics
We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
![A young circus artist spreads their arms and smiles as they dive through a vertical ring. Other young people watch on in the circus training session.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/NICA-training-photo-Cameron-Grant-Parenthesy.jpg?w=310)
Bachelor of Circus Arts course to restart thanks to new NICA and Collarts partnership
The three-year Bachelor of Circus Arts program at the National Institute of Circus Arts is reopening its student intake for…
![Finalists for 2024 World of WearableArt Competition announced, including Sol Invictus, who was also a finalist of 2023 WOW. A model wearing a golden wings on her head and an armour resembling the sun, standing in a power pose with more performers in the background.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Sol-Invictus-Grandy-C-Canada-12-e1721699702843.jpg?w=310)
Opportunities and awards
Creative Futures Fund for works of scale, international opportunities, plus Adelaide chorus strikes gold in Aotearoa and finalists of National…
![A theatre with empty seats, positioned here to denote the Australian theatre industry and performing arts sustainability.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/theatre-1477670_1280.jpg?w=310)
New research in performing arts sustainability
A newly funded research project from Griffith University will partner with companies to develop performing arts sustainability policies.
![Two performers, one is a female opera singer with bright orange hair, and the other is a female acrobat hanging from silks, on a darkened stage. cross art form.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/DidoAndAeneas_Photog_-MurraySummerville-3760_RESIZED.jpg?w=310)
Lessons in cross art form collaboration for audience growth
Three directors share their secrets on how to minimise the risks and maximise the gains in cross art form collaborations.
![A stylised photograph of a naked woman sinking underwater, he long red hair drifting towards the surface.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/53279643663_731da9188c_k-e1721716584917.jpg?w=310)
Powerful, poignant and a punch to the guts: Breaking the Waves, the opera
Lyric soprano Jennifer Black discusses the joys and challenges of performing in ‘Breaking the Waves’, an opera based on Lars…
![Tantrum Youth Arts brings 'WonderCity' to New Annual, featuring an ensemble of young performers. Photo from a low angel as kids run and jump across a concrete pathway outdoors towards the camera.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/WonderCity-Ensemble_Credit-Tamara-Gazzard-e1721710035778.jpg?w=310)
Youth arts project wins funding, with young performers excited to be 'a tiny bit famous'
New funding will assist Tantrum Youth Arts to present a playful walking trail of Newcastle curated by young performers.
![A person with dark trousers, short hair and a towel around their neck is standing in the distance of a set made to look like an empty pool. There is a stepladder on the top right. Swim.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GRIFFIN_SWIM_Dani-Sib3_PhotoBrettBoardman.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Swim, Carriageworks
A trip to a public pool provokes deep, submerged reflections.
![Two men on stage singing opera, one with white body paint as a ghost. Hamlet.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/53866464913_1a017581f1_k-e1721695472400.jpg?w=310)
Opera review: Hamlet, Opera Australia
Revenge thriller, psychological drama – this reworking of Hamlet is an emotionally charged and brilliant piece of work.
![A man on a dimly lit stage has his arms outstretched. His large shadow is projected behind him on the wall. An Imaginary Life.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/An-Imaginary-Life-production-150724-211.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: An Imaginary Life, Moores Building Art Space, Fremantle
An impressive adaptation of David Malouf's classic novella about Ovid.