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Make Your Life Count
Sarah Aiken and Collaborators
Flux Job
Lucy Guerin Inc
YES
THE RABBLE
We Take Back Our Mother Tongues
FAMILI
Hercules
Daniel Schlusser Ensemble
Arts House are Hiring
An opportunity to collaborate and lead the creative agenda for Melbourne’s home for contemporary performance.

Arts House acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay our respect to Elders both past and present and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Crowd Stance - Rafaella McDonald

Crowd Stance

Rafaella McDonald
Crowd Stance is a rich, large-scale installation that uses bold colour and cartoon-like abstraction to capture the movement and energy of crowds.
Make Your Life Count - Sarah Aiken

Make Your Life Count

Sarah Aiken and Collaborators
A dance work that shifts scale between the microscopic and the universal, Make Your Life Count is an invitation to lose yourself.
Flux

Flux Job

Lucy Guerin Inc
A work that shifts between the layered, fluctuating language of movement and the more everyday realm of words with finite meanings.
In The Time of Refuge - Bryony Jackson

Talking In the Time of Refuge

Six years of collaboration and imagination in the face of disaster – join us for afternoon tea as we delve into our publication In the Time of Refuge.
YES

YES

THE RABBLE
A theatrical inquiry into the impossible task of seeking the truth.
We

We Take Back Our Mother Tongues

FAMILI
Get on your feet and soak your senses in a powerful night of music, movement and mental restoration. 
Hercules

Hercules

Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, haunted by Euripides
Taking the twelve labours of Hercules as its entry point, this visionary work of theatre excavates the violence that lies beneath the myth of the hero.
Artist

Artist Sessions

Alexander Powers & Andy Butler with Latai Taumoepeau
Join us for the first in our Makeshift Publics Artist Sessions series, and hear from two artists from the 2021 cohort as they present research, ideas and themes in their practice.
Artist

Artist Sessions

Efren Pamilacan & Ruth Nyaruot Ruach with Madeleine Flynn
Radical healing as resistance and the culture of public dance in a time of social distancing – our second Artist Session will take you to fascinating new places.
Apologies for the Delay in Response - Titanic image by Michael Rosshothen. Image shows a computer drawing of the Titanic ship heading towards an iceberg in the night with a bright moon top right

Apologies for the Delay in Response

Nikki Lam & Yasbelle Kerkow
Nikki Lam and Yasbelle Kerkow unpick the thornier sides of art collectives, in which collaboration is often countered by imbalances of power, access and visibility.

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Arts

Arts House are Hiring

An opportunity to collaborate and lead the creative agenda for Melbourne’s home for contemporary performance.

Arts House, Artistic Director (maternity leave cover). Applications open now and close 11:45pm AEST, Sunday 6th February 2022 See more info about applying and…
Makeshift Publics - Lucreccia Quintanilla

Makeshift Publics Critical Response Series

By the artists from Makeshift Publics 2021

What makes us public?  In late 2020 we called on artists to imagine the futures that might follow the disruptions of the pandemic –…
Reunited

Reunited and it feels so good

Season One 2022

Arts House is kicking off 2022 with a riot of colour, music, movement and connection – saturate yourself in the kinds of experiences we’ve…
The simulation is real, rehearsal is over, play’s the thing. David Pledger - Street Plan, Faye Bendrups SES, Refuge 2019: Displacement, Photo by Harjono Djoyobisono

The simulation is real, rehearsal is over, play’s the thing.

David Pledger

This piece is from the collection, In The Time of Refuge. In the non-Indigenous world, modern-day disaster management began in the mid-20th C with…