Brisbane Festival invites visitors to “Find Your Fit” when Queensland’s favourite celebration of arts and culture takes over the city in spectacular style from 30 August to 21 September 2024. From family-friendly spectacles to budget-friendly events, international superstars to hometown heroes, brand-new productions to returning favourites – it’s never been easier to “Find Your Fit” […]

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Dance on film can be problematic. Just ask a filmmaker. “Even when you watch the most admired dance films, they don’t have that same sense of visceral and kinaesthetic connection you get when you watch it in a live experience,” Melbourne based director Rhys Graham declares. “In a theatre, you can be 20 metres away […]

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Arts Centre Melbourne officially announced a new performance space, The Show Room, an intimate 150-seat studio theatre that will provide audiences the opportunity to experience groundbreaking theatre, music and dance performances up close. The Show Room program will feature productions from both independent artists and established arts institutions, including provocative new works from acclaimed theatre creators Van […]

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Brisbane Festival weaves a rich tapestry of culture, celebration and community throughout the city when the leading arts and cultural event returns from 30 August to 21 September.       The fifth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina invites audiences to experience the pinnacle of artistry with world premieres, Australian exclusives, Queensland commissions and Brisbane spotlights taking centre stage across 23 […]

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Adelaide Festival unveils Time to Talk, a series of roundtable discussions that will take place throughout February and March. Panellists will include artists participating in the 2024 Adelaide Festival program, along with key industry figures. The series will open with Decolonising Culture, chaired by Adelaide Festival Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and with panellists Jacob Boehme […]

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The 39th Adelaide Festival, the first of the next three Festivals curated by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and Chief Executive Kath M Mainland CBE, invites citizens, artists and communities to help shape the way the Festival can support and inspire us all. Mackenzie and Mainland bring international festival experience from Melbourne, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Paris, […]

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In its Sydney Opera House debut, Australia’s leading inclusive dance theatre company, Restless Dance Theatre, will present its acclaimed new work Exposed – in the Studio from 30 August to 3 September. Created by award-winning director and choreographer Michelle Ryan and the Restless dancers, Exposed is an evocative contemporary dance work inspired by a moment during the pandemic when Ryan was left feeling vulnerable […]

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FRAME: A biennial of dance is coming to Melbourne and surrounds this March. The inaugural FRAME program is an invitation to celebrate and connect – to assemble, discuss, participate and witness dance across cultures, forms, styles and disciplines. FRAME has been co-created by a collective of independent artists and organisations. It has been shaped and […]

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The opening of the new Children’s Artspace gallery, hit musicals and live concerts are among highlights of Adelaide Festival Centre’s Autumn 2022 season, with free events at Festival Theatre’s grand new entrances lighting up the Riverbank precinct in coming weeks.  Adelaide Festival Centre’s wondrous new interactive Children’s Artspace art gallery will open with a bang on March […]

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During the COVID lockdown, the dance world faced the challenge of ensuring its survival in a world of social isolation. Denied its usual modus operandi of creating and working together on works that are then presented to live audiences, the dance world responded creatively moving online with barre classes, Zoom workshops, creating smaller more isolated […]

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