artists
Adeeb Razzouk
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Box of Birds
Branch Nebula
Dance North
Eishan Ensemble
Ensemble Q
Gary Lang NT Dance Company
Gravity & Other Myths
Meow Meow
Omar Musa
Polyglot Theatre
Red Line Productions
Restless Dance Theatre
Stephanie Lake Company
360 Allstars
Lewis Major
Adeeb Razzouk
Adeeb Razzouk is a Syrian multidisciplinary artist whose work emerges from the lived experience of displacement, exile and creative survival. After leaving Syria for Lebanon during the civil war, he began writing diaries that later became the foundation for Papers from the Citadel. His practice blends movement, text, sound and visual media to explore memory, trauma and the imaginative strategies that sustain people in crisis. Razzouk’s work is marked by emotional precision, poetic fragmentation and a deep commitment to bearing witness. Now based in Australia, he continues to develop performance works that illuminate the inner worlds of those shaped by conflict and forced migration.
Papers from the Citadel
Papers from the Citadel is a haunting multimedia performance set within a surreal inner chamber where a man awakens in a room with no doors and only a single window. Drawn from Adeeb Razzouk’s wartime diaries, the work explores exile, waiting, fractured memory and the fragile architectures of survival. Through movement, spoken text, projection and sound, the Citadel becomes a psychological refuge built in displacement, a place where imagination resists erasure. The performance evokes perpetual night, suspended time and the search for meaning amid geopolitical upheaval, offering audiences an intimate, unsettling and deeply human reflection on conflict and endurance.
ADEEB RAZZOUK
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Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is Australia’s leading First Nations performing arts company, celebrated internationally for its powerful fusion of contemporary dance, storytelling and over 65,000 years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Founded in 1989 and led today by Artistic Director Frances Rings, Bangarra creates works grounded in Country, community and cultural continuity, collaborating closely with Elders and knowledge holders to ensure cultural integrity in every production. The company’s dancers bring exceptional physicality and emotional depth to stories that explore identity, resilience, ancestral memory and the ongoing strength of First Nations peoples. Bangarra tours extensively across Australia and overseas, performing at major festivals, cultural institutions and landmark venues. Its work has earned numerous national and international awards, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance at La Biennale di Venezia. Bangarra remains a vital cultural force, shaping Australia’s artistic landscape and deepening global understanding of First Nations cultures.
Box of birds
Box of Birds
Box of Birds is an Australian children’s theatre company renowned for visually inventive and imaginative performances for young audiences. Formerly known as Stalker Theatre, the company combines puppetry, storytelling, music, and immersive design to create interactive experiences that inspire creativity, curiosity, and empathy.
Touring nationally and internationally, Box of Birds provides Latin American presenters the opportunity to host innovative, interactive Australian theatre for children and families. Its work demonstrates how performance for young audiences can support intercultural dialogue, early engagement with the arts, and shared creative discovery.
Creature
Creature is an immersive, interactive performance installation that transforms space into a 360° sensory world inspired by natural ecosystems. Using projection, spatial audio, motion-sensitive technology, and live performance gestures, the work allows participants’ movements to shape the environment, blending physical theatre, aerial elements, and digital animation. By dissolving the boundary between audience and performers, Creature invites children and adults to co-create the experience, fostering imagination, curiosity, and wonder. The performance requires no spoken language, making it accessible and engaging across cultures and generations.
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Branch Nebula
Branch Nebula is one of Australia’s most boundary‑pushing performance companies, known for fusing dance, theatre, street culture and physical risk into bold, hybrid works. Led by Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters, the company collaborates with skaters, dancers, parkour artists, BMX riders and experimental performers to create pieces that challenge conventional aesthetics and reimagine public space as a site for artistic invention. Their work is socially engaged, physically daring and visually striking, foregrounding the intelligence of bodies navigating complex environments. Touring internationally, Branch Nebula has earned a reputation for innovation, accessibility and a commitment to amplifying diverse creative voices.
High Performance Packing Tape
High Performance Packing Tape is a thrilling, high‑risk performance work that transforms everyday industrial materials into instruments of tension, danger and choreography. Using packing tape, cling wrap, cardboard and plastic as both props and constraints, Branch Nebula constructs a world where performers test the limits of their bodies against improvised structures that threaten collapse. The work blends physical theatre, endurance, humour and suspense, revealing the fragility and absurdity of systems we rely on. Visually inventive and viscerally engaging, High Performance Packing Tape invites audiences into a precarious environment where creativity emerges from risk, resilience and the negotiation of instability.
Air Time
In Air Time skate ramps tower over the audience, propelling BMXers, skaters, and dancers with extreme speed and height. Air Time builds on Branch Nebula’s extensive street-style work established over a decade of showcasing outstanding talent and a commitment to working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds and racially marginalised communities
The chaotic and anarchic energy of Air Time is exhilarating with the risk and danger of bodies on foot, bodies on wheels and contested identities colliding in a confined space. Air Time is a thrilling nexus of wheels in motion with the elegant flow of dance. The performers drag found objects into the space to create obstacles, escalating the difficulty with new challenges. Their fierce dedication to reaching wild heights whilst executing stunts with precision is breathtaking.
Dance North
Dance North
Dance North is one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance companies, recognised for its bold, interdisciplinary approach to performance-making. The Company creates works that integrate choreography, sound, design and visual art into cohesive and immersive experiences, often developed through close collaboration with artists across multiple disciplines.
Its productions are characterised by clarity of movement, strong visual composition and a focus on human connection, offering audiences both sensory engagement and conceptual depth. With a consistent presence across major festivals and international platforms, Dance North has established a reputation for creating accessible yet sophisticated contemporary work that resonates across diverse cultural contexts.
Wayfinder
Wayfinder is an immersive contemporary dance work that brings together movement, live music and visual design in a dynamic and rhythm-driven performance environment. Developed through collaboration between dancers, musicians and designers, the work emphasises collective energy, shared presence and audience engagement.
Driven by a powerful soundscape and highly physical choreography, Wayfinder invites audiences into a visceral and communal experience of rhythm, humour, connection and momentum. Its accessible format and strong visual identity make it ideal to a festival or a theatre season, engaging both dedicated dance audiences and broader publics.
EISHAN ENSEMBLE
Eishan Ensemble
Eishan Ensemble is an ARIA-nominated contemporary music quartet led by acclaimed Persian-Australian tar virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi. Formed in Sydney in 2016, the ensemble brings together Persian classical music, contemporary jazz and global musical traditions to create a distinctive and innovative sound that transcends cultural boundaries. Featuring Hamed Sadeghi (tar), Michael Avgenicos (saxophone), Adem Yilmaz (percussion) and Maximillian Alduca (double bass), Eishan Ensemble has performed at leading venues and festivals including the Sydney Opera House, WOMADelaide, the London Jazz Festival, the Rome Jazz Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival. Their critically acclaimed recordings have earned widespread recognition for their originality, virtuosity and rich cross-cultural musical language.
Soundscapes without Borders
Through original compositions that blend ancient traditions with contemporary improvisation, Eishan Ensemble celebrates cultural diversity while exploring themes of identity, migration and belonging. Their work exemplifies the power of music to foster dialogue, build understanding and connect audiences across cultures, making them a compelling ambassador for Australia’s vibrant multicultural arts sector.
Ensemble Q
Ensemble Q
Ensemble Q is one of Australia’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles and a leading reference point in the renewal of contemporary chamber repertoire. Founded in 2017 by cellist Trish Dean and clarinettist‑composer Paul Dean, the ensemble brings together a selection of the country’s most exceptional musicians, including principal players from the Queensland, Sydney, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, as well as prominent soloists, chamber musicians, and conservatory faculty. The group has earned a strong reputation for the excellence of its performances, the originality of its programming, and its commitment to reviving lesser‑known works alongside major pieces of the international repertoire. As Company‑in‑Residence at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Ensemble Q performs regularly at festivals and concert halls across Australia and maintains an active educational and mentorship program for new generations of musicians. Its approach combines virtuosity, artistic curiosity, and a constant search for new ways to connect chamber music with contemporary audiences.
Ensemble Q’s touring programs
Ensemble Q’s touring programs adapt to a wide range of presenting contexts and typically feature between five and seven performers, though the ensemble’s flexible structure allows configurations ranging from intimate recitals to larger chamber formations. Their concerts stand out for the balance between interpretive rigour and audience engagement, offering carefully crafted musical experiences that reveal the expressive richness of each work. The technical mastery of its musicians, combined with deep artistic sensitivity, results in performances of great clarity, cohesion, and emotional force. The repertoire may span classics of the European canon, contemporary Australian compositions, and rarely heard works, all presented with a sophisticated curatorial approach that is particularly attractive to festivals, performing arts centres, and chamber‑music series. Ensemble Q offers an exceptional combination of artistic excellence, logistical flexibility, and international prestige, making it a highly valuable proposal for programmers and curators seeking first‑rate musical experiences.
gary lang nt dance company
Gary Lang NT Dance Company
Gary Lang NT Dance Company is a contemporary dance ensemble led by Aboriginal choreographer Gary Lang, recognised for creating physically expressive and emotionally grounded work. The Company’s practice is shaped by a strong narrative sensibility, combining movement, text and theatrical elements to explore personal histories, identity and human connection.
Its productions are characterised by clarity of storytelling and a direct emotional register, allowing audiences to engage with complex themes through an accessible choreographic language. With a growing national and international touring profile, the company offers presenters contemporary Australian dance that is intimate in scale, culturally resonant, and adaptable across diverse performance contexts.
The Other Side of Me
The Other Side of Me features two highly acrobatic dancers and is based on a real-life story of adoption, displacement and reconnection. Through a combination of movement, spoken word and text, the work traces a deeply personal journey across cultures and identities.
Blending expressive choreography with narrative elements drawn from letters and lived experience, the piece explores themes of belonging, memory and self-discovery. The Other Side of Me offers an emotionally direct and culturally reflective performance, well suited to audiences seeking intimate, story-driven contemporary work.
Gravity & other myths
Gravity & Other Myths
Gravity & Other Myths is an internationally recognised contemporary circus company known for its physically rigorous and conceptually driven work. The Company creates ensemble-based performances that emphasise trust, precision and collective physicality, combining high-level acrobatics with a refined theatrical sensibility.
This results in work that is both visually striking and emotionally immediate. With extensive international touring across major festivals and venues, the Company has established an outstanding reputation for delivering contemporary circus that is intelligent, accessible and highly engaging for diverse audiences.
The Mirror
The Mirror is a contemporary circus work that explores themes of perception, identity and interdependence. Using minimal set elements and a focus on the performers’ interactions, the work reveals the dynamics of trust, balance and shared effort.
Through moments of tension, humour and collective precision, The Mirror invites audiences to reflect on the nature of human relationships and the ways individuals exist within a group. The piece combines technical excellence with conceptual clarity, offering a performance that is both entertaining and thought-provoking, well suited to festival and theatre programming.
Lewis Major
Lewis Major
Lewis Major is one of the most acclaimed Australian choreographers of his generation, celebrated for a choreographic language of great formal refinement and a singular ability to combine technical virtuosity with emotional depth. Through Lewis Major Projects, he has developed an international trajectory that includes presentations and collaborations across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, consolidating a reputation grounded in artistic excellence and stage innovation. His work is distinguished by the creation of sculptural images with strong visual impact, a close relationship between movement, music, and lighting design, and a choreographic sensibility that privileges both precision and the humanity of the performers. Major’s works frequently explore themes linked to memory, transformation, human connection, and perception, always maintaining a balance between accessibility and artistic sophistication. His body of work has been widely recognised for its aesthetic elegance and its capacity to generate immersive experiences for diverse audiences.
Triptych
Triptych brings together three short, interconnected works in a proposal that synthesises the principal artistic qualities of Lewis Major. Performed by a cast of four to five dancers, the piece offers a choreographic journey in which light, sound, space, and movement constantly interact to construct an experience of rich sensory detail. Each section possesses its own identity, yet together they form a coherent structure that reveals the evolution of the choreographer’s creative language. The complex physical relationships between the performers, the carefully crafted visual composition, and the enveloping atmosphere turn the work into an experience of notable poetic intensity. Its medium-scale format, combined with high artistic quality and flexible logistics, makes it particularly attractive for festivals, theatres, and programmers seeking contemporary dance works with a strong visual identity and proven international reach.
MEOW MEOW
Meow Meow
Meow Meow is an internationally acclaimed sensational, Australian performance artist, celebrated for theatrical, genre-defying works that blend music, movement, storytelling, and immersive audience engagement. Based in Melbourne, her performances combine wit, emotional depth, and inventive staging, offering experiences that captivate audiences across the globe.
For Latin American presenters, Meow Meow presents a distinctive form of Australian performance art that bridges theatre, music, and interactive experience. Her work demonstrates innovation, artistic rigor, and the ability to connect with diverse audiences, offering opportunities for cultural exchange and audience development.
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes is a theatrical performance with live music that reinterprets the classic tale through music, movement, and imaginative storytelling. The work uses song, theatricality, and expressive performance to explore themes of desire, compulsion, and transformation, creating an engaging and emotionally resonant experience.
The performance is characterized by dynamic musical composition, inventive staging, and Meow Meow’s signature expressive style. Designed for audiences of all ages, The Red Shoes transforms the stage into an immersive space, inviting viewers into a compelling journey of character, emotion, and theatrical exploration.
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Omar Musa
Winner of the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia’s most prestigious literary award) and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction, Omar Musa stands as one of the most incisive voices in contemporary Australian literature. His writing engages with themes of identity, migration, colonialism, and masculinity through a poetics that is lucid, urgent, and profoundly human. Musa approaches language as a critical act, a tool to illuminate uncomfortable truths and to open necessary conversations.
His work advances with an intensity that fuses verbal music, social thought, and a palpable sensitivity. Musa creates a space where words become resistance, where cultural critique takes poetic form, and where literature transcends the personal to touch the collective. His presence contributes a voice that thinks, questions, and expands the emotional and intellectual horizon.
POLYGLOT THEATRE
Polyglot Theatre
Polyglot Theatre is among Australia’s foremost children’s theatre companies, based in Melbourne. The Company creates imaginative, visually rich, and interactive performances designed specifically for young audiences. Integrating music, puppetry, movement, and storytelling, Polyglot cultivates creativity, empathy, and curiosity in children.
With extensive national and international touring experience, Polyglot Theatre offers Latin American presenters the opportunity to showcase Australian children’s theatre at the highest level. Its work demonstrates the value of early cultural engagement, intercultural dialogue, and audience development, providing performances that are both entertaining and educational.
Ants
Ants is an interactive family theatre work that transforms the performance space into a playful, participant-driven environment. Audiences explore movement, patterns, and imaginative play alongside giant ant figures. By dissolving traditional boundaries between performers and spectators, Ants fosters co-creation, curiosity, and shared artistic discovery. With no spoken language required, it is accessible across cultures and generations, making it ideal for international festival programming.
Red Line Productions
Red Line Productions
Red Line Productions has established itself as one of the most influential companies in Australian independent theatre through its artistic stewardship of Sydney’s historic Old Fitz Theatre. Recognised for its rigorous programming and commitment to interpretive excellence, the company has built a reputation around intimate‑scale productions that privilege proximity to the audience and high‑intensity acting. Its work combines contemporary Australian writing with new readings of classic texts, promoting innovative approaches and a critical lens on contemporary social and human issues. In collaboration with Loose Canon Arts and other emerging collectives, Red Line Productions has become an important platform for new generations of creators, maintaining an artistic ethos that favours creative risk, narrative clarity, and deep psychological exploration of character.
Goodnight Sweet Prince
Goodnight Sweet Prince is a radical, distilled reinterpretation of Hamlet that reduces Shakespeare’s tragedy to an intense stage duel between two performers: Raj Labade and Jack Twelvetree. Adapted by Liesel Badorrek together with the actors, the work transforms the original text into a study of memory, remorse, inherited violence, and psychological deterioration. Each night, the performers exchange the roles of Hamlet and the other principal characters, turning identity and perception into central elements of the theatrical experience. Through dramaturgy that fractures time, immersive soundscapes, expressive lighting design, and a symbolically charged ruined set, the production places the audience inside the mind of a protagonist haunted by grief and constant surveillance. With an approximate duration of 80 to 90 minutes and a format adaptable to chamber spaces, the work offers a contemporary proposal of strong appeal for festivals and programmers interested in new approaches to the classics and psychologically driven theatre of powerful emotional impact.
restless dance theatre
Restless Dance Theatre
Restless Dance Theatre is a leading Australian contemporary dance company recognised for its pioneering inclusive practice which brings together dancers with and without disability to create work that is artistically rigorous and socially resonant. Its productions are acclaimed for their emotional depth, striking visual language, and strong theatricality, exploring themes of identity, connection and community.
With an established national and international touring profile, Restless presents work across major festivals and cultural platforms, engaging diverse audiences through a distinctive choreographic voice. The Company offers presenters a powerful contemporary dance that combines artistic excellence with inclusivity, creating meaningful audience connections across cultural contexts.
Private View
Private View is an intimate contemporary dance work exploring desire, connection, love and vulnerability. Performed by an ensemble of dancers with and without disability, the piece unfolds through a series of vignettes in parallel spaces that reveal personal and shared emotional landscapes.
Blending expressive choreography with a carefully crafted soundscape, Private View creates a layered theatrical experience that invites reflection on human relationships and perception. The work exemplifies Restless Dance Theatre’s unique approach, combining technical precision with emotional authenticity in a format well suited to festival and theatre presentation.
Stephanie lake company
Stephanie Lake Company
Stephanie Lake Company is one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary dance companies and a regular presence on international stages. Founded and directed by acclaimed choreographer Stephanie Lake, the company has developed an artistic practice defined by visual power, choreographic precision, and a deep exploration of the relationship between the individual and the collective. Its productions combine extraordinary physicality with sophisticated spatial construction, generating images of strong emotional and architectural impact. Celebrated by critics and audiences alike, the company has presented its work at major festivals and theatres across Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania. Its collaborative approach and ability to engage local artists and communities have consolidated a distinctive model of creation within the international landscape of contemporary dance. The works of Stephanie Lake Company stand out for their accessibility, artistic excellence, and capacity to connect with diverse audiences.
Colossus
Colossus is one of the company’s most emblematic and successful works. Created for a cast of between 45 and 65 dancers, the piece explores the dynamics between the individual and the crowd, constantly shifting between order and chaos, obedience and resistance, singularity and belonging. Through complex choreographic patterns and striking architectures of bodies in motion, the work creates a hypnotic experience that transforms collective energy into spectacle. Since its premiere, Colossus has toured internationally and has been performed by hundreds of dancers in different countries. Its touring model is particularly attractive for festivals and theatres: a traveling team of only six professionals — including artistic direction, rehearsal direction, production, and technical staff — works intensively for approximately two weeks with local dancers to mount the piece, combining artistic excellence, community participation, and remarkable logistical efficiency.
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360 ALLSTARS
360 ALLSTARS is an internationally touring contemporary circus production that brings together elite athletes and performers from the worlds of BMX, basketball, breakdance, acrobatics and live music. The company is recognised for its high- energy, visually dynamic performances that connect strongly with broad and diverse audiences.
Blending urban culture with contemporary circus practice, 360 ALLSTARS delivers work that is fast-paced, technically accomplished and immediately accessible. Its format bridges theatre, festival and large-scale event programming, making it highly adaptable across different presenting contexts. With a strong international touring history, the company offers presenters a proven, audience-driven production that combines entertainment value with technical excellence.
360 ALLSTARS Show
360 ALLSTARS is a high-energy performance that fuses acrobatics, BMX, breakdance, basketball artistry and live percussion into a cohesive, rhythm-driven spectacle. Performed by a cast of world-class specialists, the work showcases technical mastery through a sequence of interconnected acts.
Driven by live music and continuous momentum, the performance creates an immersive atmosphere that engages audiences from start to finish. With its non-verbal format and strong visual appeal, 360 ALLSTARS is particularly effective in international contexts, offering a universally accessible experience suited to festivals, theatres and large-scale public events.
