Re-imagine: What next? - Dance
The pandemic has illuminated pressures we were already feeling. It is bringing to light aspects of our industry many have long wanted to change, along with new issues we are now being forced to address.
Become a peer assessor for the Australia Council
Peer assessment and arm’s length funding have been guiding principles of how the Australia Council allocates funding for more than 40 years. Find out how to become a peer assessor.
National Arts and Disability Awards 2020: meet the recipients
Three outstanding artists were celebrated at the National Arts and Disability Awards, coinciding with the International Day of People with Disability. The Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Access Australia partnered to present the prestigious awards.
Co-investment opportunities now open
Applications for the Marten Bequest Scholarships, the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the Dal Stivens Award are now open.
Annual Report 2019-20
‘In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.’
Adrian Collette AM, CEO Australia Council quoting, Svendborg Poems: Berthold Brecht 1930.
Creating Our Future: Results of the National Arts Participation Survey webinars
This webinar series is a deep dive into the main themes of the report, exploring how Australians’ increasingly value the benefits of the arts and creativity.
South and Southeast Asia opportunities are closing soon
Applications for Capture All: A Sonic Investigation, Australia-Singapore Digital Residencies and PICA Interdisciplinary Lab: Encounter, Practice, Play are now open.
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
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.
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.