The arts depict extremes of emotional life, overtly and with clarity. This was in much evidence at the 2026 Perth Festival.
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From Australia, the United Kingdom and Italy, here are the highlights of the 2026 Sydney Festival dance program.
This year’s OzAsia festival demonstrated both the strength and the fragility of cultural translation
These five captivating films offer a snapshot of the very best of contemporary French cinema
From delicate duos to a mass gathering of 1,000 dancers, the Adelaide Festival shows a bright vision of Australian contemporary dance.
The highlights of the 2025 Perth Festival embraced Australian First Nations and contemporary Southeast Asian storytelling.
Artists in this year’s Sydney Festival imagine exit strategies from a climate change doom loop – and dream of taking root in its post-apocalyptic rubble.
Although the festival focuses on Asia, it also offers opportunities to view Australia.
More than 50 participants gathered in Melaka, Malaysia, for the Melaka Art & Performance Festival – an exploration of butoh, trance and postmodern dance.
The second year of the Melbourne festival delivered talent and creativity in spades – leaving me disrupted, enlivened and uplifted.
Rising has great potential to transform the arts ecosystem in Melbourne. But this requires some deep consultation and consideration as it contemplates what the future holds.
From Danish baby murders, to Superman’s ‘true’ story, to bloody combat on a train in India – this year’s film festival had plenty of rich offerings.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
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.
Although performances is an obvious way to experience other cultures, food has acted as the medium through which a larger number of Australians learn about Asia.
My top three works situated witnessing as a political act. These works invite you to revisit what you thought you knew.
Adelaide Festival is arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.
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.
Boundary pushing contemporary art and performance inspires connection at Mona Foma 2023.
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Arts, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate (Design) and Performance Artist, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of French Studies, Adelaide University