Creative Connections
Creative Connections is an online webinar series for the cultural and arts sectors and will offer practical, accessible and useful content delivered by industry experts on key topics and emerging themes.
First Nations' Roundtables
The First Nations' Roundtables were an ongoing series of updates and discussions about the implications COVID-19 is having on the First Nations independent and small to medium sector, live performance and public gatherings.
National Arts and Disability Awards: Nominations now open
The Australia Council National Arts and Disability Awards celebrate the work and achievements of both established and young artists, and the significant contribution of artists with disability to the vibrancy of Australian arts.
Creative Connections: Gendered Leadership
How do we approach gender diversity in our organisations? How do we lead in a non-gendered way? This session will provide support and resources for best practice for arts and organisations for working with, for and alongside gender diverse collaborators and audiences.
Think Inside the Square
This weekly online conversation was developed for the Arts and creative industry: digital support facebook group. Every week, industry experts, artists and digital adaptors joined the panel to discuss solutions and ideas that inform the industry. Watch the previous episodes.
INTEL: Podcast Series
The Australia Council’s INTEL: PODCAST SERIES is a peer-to-peer market intelligence resource designed to inform and upskill the arts sector on ‘live’, best practice, and innovative approaches to international engagement. The series spotlights guests who are actively forging pathways for the internationalisation of Australian work, and who continue to work within a cross-cultural and cross-border capacity.
Australia Council response
Learn more about Australia Council's Response Package to support
artists, arts practitioners, arts groups and arts organisations coping with the
impact of COVID-19.
Cherish II Fund: applications now open
The Cherish II Fund is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption experienced by the First Nations arts and cultural sector and community. Learn more about the 4 funding streams: Living Libraries, Creative Practice, Creative Entrepreneur and Creative Workforce.
Dance
A host of outstanding dancers and choreographers has earned Australia a global reputation for taking the art form to new heights.
The Australia Council fosters the development and growth of Australian dance. It supports excellence, encourages participation, increases distribution and builds artistic sustainability. Its vision is to see dance thrive.
Australian dance is recognised for its athleticism, distinctive style and diversity.
2020 Australia Council Award recipient
Michelle Ryan – Australia Council Award for Dance
Michelle has worked as a performer, choreographer and artistic director during her 25 year career in the arts.
She uses her lived experience of disability to inform all her artwork, with humour, warmth and searing honesty.
Michelle joined Meryl Tankard in Canberra and Adelaide as part of Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre for 7 ½ years, followed by projects in Europe as Tankard’s assistant. Michelle was also a founding member of Splintergroup and worked at Dancenorth for five years in various capacities, and in 2013 she was appointed Artistic Director of Restless Dance Theatre.
Highlights
Corporate Plan 2013-2023 - Dance
Creativity is innate to humanity and is the wellspring of culture. Our arts embody individual and collective stories, histories, identities and help us understand what it means to be human.
Annual Report 2018-19 - Dance
There is enormous public value generated through the arts for the whole of civil society – the arts contribute significantly across our nation’s health, education, industry, global affairs and more. Sam Walsh AO
International Residencies. Dance.
International residencies provide a unique opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in a new arts context, market, community and culture. The experience enables artists to articulate their practice within a global context.
Making Art Work, Dance
The Australia Council for the Arts has released new research which examines the economic conditions faced by practising professional artists in Australia and their increasing value to society and the future of work.