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Rawcus
And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines
An exhibition curated by Roberta Joy Rich and Naomi Velaphi
New Dance Festival EOI
Applications Now Open
The New Dance Festival
A new dance festival for artists and audiences in Melbourne

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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Here We Are Amongst You

Rawcus
Here We Are Amongst You is a secular prayer for our times. It is a raw and exuberant gathering hosted by the renowned Rawcus ensemble. 
And

And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines

An exhibition curated by Roberta Joy Rich and Naomi Velaphi
This potent series of exchanges between artists on the African continent and those living in its diaspora reimagines stories of women from archives of Southern African history. 
Jagad - Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane

Jagad

Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane
Contemporary dance and live video offer a haunting investigation of Javanese concepts of the inner and outer universe.
Scream

Scream Star

Speak Percussion
Acclaimed international composers fuse the worlds of sound and screen, percussion and projection in a performance by Melbourne’s alchemists of the experimental aural arts. 
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More Than Words Can Say

Catherine Dunn and Sam Martin
Through a series of workshops culminating in a public showcase, Catherine Dunn and Sam Martin bring together five Deaf artists to reflect upon their relationship with signed stories and Audism.

BLEED 2022

A biennial live event of the everyday digital
The second edition of our biennial festival exploring the IRL and URL.
The

The Durga Chronicles

Priya Srinivasan, Philipa Rothfield and Uthra Vijay
In a time of endemic gendered violence, this interdisciplinary work evokes a metaverse storying the primordial force of the Goddess Durga/Mariamman/Koravvai in an urgent call to action. 
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I Am Not This Body

Leisa Prowd
Leisa Prowd invites audiences to experience life when you're not even 4 feet in a 6 foot world shared through movement, film and installation.
NEVERNEVERNEVER

NEVERNEVERNEVER NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER

Aaron Orzech and Collaborators
NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER is a duet performed by a man and a boy.
Garabari

Garabari

Joel Bray Dance & Chunky Move
Immerse yourself in the swirling depths of a reimagined civic ritual: a looping Garabari of bodies, light and sound
Fire

Fire Plays Eyes to the Blind

Mia Boe
In landscapes real and imagined, an artist reckons with the past of her island home.
Stills:

Stills: Loie, Pixie, Sarah, Lilith and Artemisia

Hannah Gartside
Hannah Gartside's whirling textile sculptures bring to life artists, pioneers and rebels with every revolution, filling the foyer with their remarkable stories.
Why

Why work with Museums?

Andy Butler and guests
A podcast that asks: are art museums themselves just relics, or should we attempt to blow the dust off in search of something more?

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Q&A

Q&A with Rawcus Artistic Director Kate Sulan

Learn more about Here We Are Amongst You

After 22 years, Here We Are Amongst You will be Rawcus Artistic Director Kate Sulan’s final work. We interviewed her on the making of this powerful…
Meet

Meet The Rawcus Ensemble

Ahead of their new work Here We Are Amongst You

We’re delighted to introduce you to the team behind Hercules, the exciting new work by Daniel Schlusser Ensemble.
The

The New Dance Festival

A new dance festival for artists and audiences in Melbourne.

Like its predecessor Dance Massive, this new dance festival is planned as a biennial celebration of dance during March. That’s where the similarities end….
How

How you pay is up to you, in Season 2 2022

Art is not a luxury good

It’s been a rough time – costs of living are high, incomes are wobbly and for many people work remains more precarious than ever….