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Three reasons why the new progress measures may be a misleading indicator of school performance.
Spending a year living life as David Bowie gave me a better understanding of the pop icon’s mind and work.
Claims have been made that having a male panto dame in this day and age is sexist (Oh no it isn’t!)
Here’s how to make a happy workplace during year-end assessments.
The wider truth behind all those ‘scary’ clowns.
Athletes face as many as 640 organisational demands at a big competition – and they can all take their toll.
There’s a time and place for a smartphone and some artists and sports stars want you to stop using them when they’re performing. Just enjoy the live event instead.
Ira Glass’ trademark intensely personal storytelling takes on a new life in his dance/radio hybrid, Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.
The path to grand final victory in AFL can be paved with many wins and losses. But it’s measuring how a team plays against an expected result that can help them improve.
Group rewards produce cooperative, high performing groups but also, counterintuitively, the best performing individuals.
Contemporary circus and circus-infused physical theatre are amongst Australia’s most innovative and in-demand cultural exports. It’s a performance craft with a proud history behind it.
This year’s Ibiza Prom was a convenient target for those unhappy with the expanded remit of the Proms – but an unfounded one.
For a growing number of artists, academics, researchers and scientists, dance represents a promising new frontier of exploration. The annual DANscienCE festival shines a spotlight on their findings.
It’s not enough to be an elite athlete these days, you have to construct your own narrative for success.
After a very drawn out and fraught construction, the Philharmonie de Paris is finally open. The 2,400 seat concert hall was conceived with ambitious plans to democratise classical music, and is situated…
The Feldenkrais Method is a way of exploring movement, posture and breathing through hands-on touch, used by dancers, musicians, athletes, actors and people living with and rehabilitating from a range…
We rightly marvel at the skills of a talented musician, especially witnessing them perform live. But how does someone become so skilled? Obviously hours and hours of dedicated practice is a necessity…
In their 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival performance Mama Alto and her musical director Tiffani Walton pay tribute to Sarah Vaughan, one of the great ladies of American song. Mama Alto charmed her audience…
The AFL final series – with the semi-finals starting today – is one of the most ferocious and toughest contests we will see in Australian sport. Behind the scenes, there is no doubt a fair percentage of…
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