Imagining the future of Indigenous performing arts

More First Nations arts workers, decolonising performance modes, and addressing the Intervention were among the topics floated at a recent panel discussion.
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Koomurri perform in Dance Rites at Homeground. Photo by Joseph Mayers. 

In light of a recent report by the Australia Council for the Arts which found that only 2% of the 6000 works programmed by presenters in 2015 was by or about Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island peoples – and that two thirds of presenters did not program any Indigenous works at all – a panel discussion hosted by Arts Centre Melbourne sought to imagine how things might look in 10 years’ time.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts