More than 50 participants gathered in Melaka, Malaysia, for the Melaka Art & Performance Festival – an exploration of butoh, trance and postmodern dance.
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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.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Arts, Flinders University
