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Creative Australia is set to invest more than A$1.6m (£800,000/€1m/$1.1m) to support 10 projects through the regional Performing Arts Touring programme, Playing Australia.
The investment will help to bring the performing arts to audiences in 79 unique locations, including regional and remote communities across Australia.
Funding will support a broad range of performing arts, from contemporary dance to digital theatre and choir, ensuring communities outside of the country’s major cities can access arts and culture.
“This investment through Playing Australia will bring quality performing arts experiences to audiences, wherever they live,” commented Creative Australia’s executive director of arts investment, Alice Nash.
“This important investment will help deliver the aims of the Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy Revive: A Place for every story, a story for every place, bringing compelling and dynamic contemporary works to more Australians right across the country.”
As a result of the investment, regional and remote communities will be able to enjoy performances from the Australian Dance Theatre, Opera Queensland which will tour ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, and digital theatre experience ‘Glow’ from The Threshold Centre.
Additionally, not-for-profit Woodfordia Inc will bring its Festival of Small Halls tour to communities in rural Tasmania, while the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir will perform a series of concerts across four states. Ensemble Limited, a national tour of Melanie Tait’s work The Queen’s Nanny, offering a contemporary Australian perspective on a true royal scandal, will be brought to 17 venues across Australia.
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