Performing Arts

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Australia's arts sector needs more than words to survive

Australian artists are struggling. To support those who tell Australian stories, we need to go beyond the government’s Revive policy

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Have ballet and opera actually benefited from a Chalamet Effect?

Timothée Chalamet called opera and ballet irrelevant. The industries clapped back, tickets sold – but now comes the harder task of keeping those audiences

Arts & Culture

Sharing the universal language of music

Composer Melody Eötvös wrote her first composition at age eight. Now, her latest piece ‘Hun Tur’ is set to captivate audiences as part of the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra tour to Asia

Arts & Culture

The art and science of dance

University of Melbourne's Professor Emma Redding wrote the world’s first masters degree in Dance Science – a now growing discipline in the dance profession

Arts & Culture

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

There’s no easy answer to writing great plays but part of the magic comes from empathy, experience and all that is wondrous and strange