Performing Arts

The Performing Arts include a wide range of practices which intersect and inform one another.  Innovation and diversity are essential to creativity.  The Department of Culture and the Arts has a number of programs in place designed to develop and support performing artists in Western Australia.

These include

• The Arts Grants Program
• Major Production Fund
• Dance Strategy
• iArts
• Managing and Producing Services

The Department also provides annual funding to the following relevant organisations

• Artrage Inc
• Ausdance WA
• Barking Gecko Theatre Company
• Buzz Dance Theatre
• Community Arts Network WA (CANWA)
• Country Arts WA
• deckchair theatre
• Kulcha Multicultural Arts of Western Australia
• Performing Arts Centre Society (Blue Room)
• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Perth Theatre Company
• Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
• Yirra Yaakin
• Awesome Arts Australia
• PROPELarts
• Skadada
• Stages
• Southern Edge Arts (SEA)
• Steps Youth Dance Company
• STRUT Dance
• WA Youth Theatre Company
• Western Australian Ballet
• Western Australian Symphony Orchestra
• Western Australian Opera 
• Black Swan Theatre Company
  
  Useful links
• Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
• Australia Council for the Arts
• Australian Business and the Arts Foundation
• Regional Arts Australia conference

For more information contact
Sarah Wilkinson, A/Project Officer, Performing Arts