Toronto’s Gay Community Dance Committee funded lesbian and gay liberation organizing in an unkind era that made community work not only difficult, but increasingly necessary.
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Winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize, What Happens was inspired by the discovery of a slave burial site.
Rachel Arianne Ogle’s new chorography is an exploration of mortality and death.
Technical brilliance is one thing. Musicality another. Here is our pick of the skaters who combine the two.
Can a film’s artful telling of experiences of stigma and HIV, using dance, help promote empathy and compassion?
Some people do inherit traits which promote dance ability - but with hard work almost anyone can learn to dance well due to the plasticity of the brain
Even before the pandemic, access to arts programs and qualified instructors varied greatly among schools and districts.
Extracurricular activities help children from low-income suburbs close the gap between them and their better-off peers. But subsidies for these activities are patchy and often limited to sport.
Beyond creativity and thinking skills, arts education will help you enhance your communication and expressive skills, as well as boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
In choreography, the gray areas of copyright law make it difficult to determine what constitutes copyright infringement or plagiarism.
Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
The protests paved the way for healing, vitality and a new vista of productive life.
Some hard decisions need to be made if we are to get better value-for-money performing arts funding from central and local government.
From choreographer Emma Fishwick, this slow, dreamy performance and its cast of 15 dancers, speaks especially loudly to Australia of today.
This new work from Restless Dance Theatre is staged in a bowling ally, and asks us to consider the possibilities of perspective.
A new film about Bangarra Dance Theatre carries the deep Indigenous knowledge and personal trauma behind its 30-year history.
Creative dance combines physical activity with creativity.
Complaints stated that family shows like Britain’s Got Talent shouldn’t be political. However, the problem is much more complex and sinister than simple politics
The successes of the NBA’s #WholeNewGame provide important lessons for performing artists about audience investment and hybrid digital-live events.
The tradition of performing in a mask, from china to France, shows how it can be just as evocative and entertaining.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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PhD (Dance) Candidate and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
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Sessional lecturer and researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Psychology Department, Bishop's University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
