The arts depict extremes of emotional life, overtly and with clarity. This was in much evidence at the 2026 Perth Festival.
- Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
Noongar dance can restore connections between those who live in Perth and the sharks who swim in the city’s river.
From the surreal imagery of butoh to Suzuki’s dreamlike approach to theatre, post-war Japan’s performance styles have inspired numerous Australian performers.
The highlights of the 2025 Perth Festival embraced Australian First Nations and contemporary Southeast Asian storytelling.
More than 50 participants gathered in Melaka, Malaysia, for the Melaka Art & Performance Festival – an exploration of butoh, trance and postmodern dance.
Shelley Lasica was the first dance artist represented by an Australian commercial gallery. But how do you stage an exhibition on dance?
Across the program, I was struck by how it was often more in the act of putting on and performing the work, rather than their spoken content, that expressed political responses to our times.
Drag is an ever-evolving art form, which has emerged from underground clubs to the spotlight.
Iain Grandage’s fourth Perth Festival continued his focus on First Nations performance, together with an exhilarating dose of Black Futurism as well as demanding post-classical music.
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor reproduces something familiar with a dash of local flavour.
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Artists Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger invite audiences to walk where the first contact between Noongar and white settlers at Lake Monger took place.
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