Dance Hall
Dance Hall is a dance lab experiment, drawing together five professionally trained dancers from South Gippsland in Victoria, each with different backgrounds and histories, to create a new work—a dance sketch—all in the space of six weeks.
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Action Station
Action Station is the second in a series of community dance projects, which matched a group of professional artists with a diverse range of community members, of all ages and skill levels, to collectively create an original and distinctive dance work.
History In The Making:
How Long-form Journalism Frames Contemporary Histories, Building Mosaics Out of Ruins, Fragments and Ephemera
This is a PhD reflecting on narrative theories influencing my long-form radio journalism on recent instabilities and disunity in Europe. It also examines how and why long-form journalism equates with the telling of contemporary history.
Fill The Void
On a cool August night 2021, in the midst of rolling COVID-19 lockdowns, a magical thing happened. A small group of performers managed to stage a performance in a small, rural hall. Against a backdrop of pandemic fear and isolation, this was a strange and wonderful thing to occur.
Walter Benjamin | proto-multimedia journo?
One of the most important intellectual figures of the last century, Benjamin’s writings have given us a critical window onto the psyche of Europe in the early 20th Century. But was he, in fact, our first multi-media journalist?
The fate of the Common Good
Do we still believe in the idea of the common good, a concept that seemed ubiquitous through the 20th Century? Renowned philosopher Prof. Hans Sluga, seeks to explain why respect for the role of the Common Good, within Europe and the European Union, is in decline.
Germany: Globally-minded from birth? The pianoforte example
Why is Berlin sometimes colloquially referred to as an outer suburb of Melbourne? And is there a link between Germany's amazing success selling of pianos at the Melbourne Exhibitions of 1880/1888, and the present-day openness of Germany to Australian musicians and cultural conversation?
An end to discord
Music is music, right? But through the middle of the 20th Century, our evolving appetite for innovation took us on some pretty weird detours, especially in the world of classical music. So, in the midst of all this, what happened to the familiar tradition of tonal composition?
Crisis & Creativity
—a 4 part radio series
The European Union is struggling. Not just because of Brexit, the GFC, and the arrival of millions of refugees, but because Europe as an idea of fairness, democracy and freedom is under attack. However, this radio series finds optimism in creative strategies keeping the heart of the EU beating.
Southern Sun, Aegean Light—The poetry of second-generation Greek-Australian poets
What does it mean to be a second generation Greek-Australian? How clear is your sense of identity and of belonging? Against the backdrop of Greece's rich history of language and ideas, there's been a great modern tradition of writing from across the Greek diaspora.