Co3’s Reason for Being development at AGWA. Photo by Michael Maclean.
In the tensions which surrounded the loss of funds from the Australia Council last year, an angry gulf developed between the major performing arts companies, whose budgets were protected, and the small-to-mediums facing devastation.
But it’s an ill wind which blows no good and almost a year on the tensions between the two parts of the sector have spawned a new acknowledgement of the value each can gain from the other.