Richard Watts
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Discrimination alleged as board suspends festival GM
The general manager of Adelaide's Feast Festival has been suspended just five weeks before the festival.
Attracting new audiences to contemporary dance
By turns abstract and emotive, celebratory and confronting, contemporary dance can be a difficult art form to sell to audiences.
Talking dirty: the truth about teenage boys and porn
Out of the bedroom and onto the stage! Teenagers reveal what they really see.
Riding the political roller coaster
Artists and arts organisations need to have the ear of government but getting too close to the Arts Minister of…
Fringe themes reveal contemporary artistic concerns
Open access Fringe Festivals don’t just allow artists of all stripes to showcase new works; they also provide a snapshot…
Thinking outside the arts
Artists don't belong in the arts sector. There is important work for them in health, education, housing and business.
Nijinsky
The much anticipated production of John Neumeier’s ‘biopic’ ballet about Vaslav Nijinsky proves a dense, difficult work.
Why Australia still dances to an Irish tune
What impact have successive waves of Irish immigration had on Australian art and culture?
Young artists make creative sparks fly
You don’t have to be an established artist to apply for funding; a range of grants exist to support young…
Creative economy needs business skills as well as art
While artistic talent is innate, making sense of the business of being an artist is a skill we all need…