Insite Arts

Insite Arts brings twenty years of experience in the performing arts industry. Insite Arts works wit

Insite’s work encompasses intimate showcases, small independent venue presentations, major theatre and festival productions and large-scale major outdoor events. Collaborations with artists to create contemporary productions across genres, cultures, styles and scale are the cornerstones of Insite’s work. Established in 2008 as a professional independent producing company for Australian artists, In

site’s head office relocated in 2018 to Adelaide with a second office based in Melbourne. Directors of Insite Arts Jason Cross, Lee Cumberlidge, Victoria Raywood and Elena Vereker work in a collaborative artistic and managerial partnership. This has involved the creation and presentation of more than 50 new Australian works, resulting in 144 presentations across Australia. This is alongside 140 international presentations across 32 countries reaching audiences of more than 60,000 annually. Insite Arts is led by its four Directors, Jason Cross, Lee Cumberlidge, Victoria Raywood and Elena Vereker, along with a small core team of Producers, Penelope Leishman and Kate Hancock, Administration Coordinator, Beth Raywood Cross and Digital Media Manager, Courtney Beaumont. Insite Arts is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Insite Arts acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners and Elders, past, present and future, of the lands on which we live and work.

18/12/2025

Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals but speaking to universal truths of grief and remembrance, Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim's multi-sensory journey surrounds you with sound, movement and light.
Live musicians and singers weave ancient songs through electronic landscapes; ambisonics, 3D animation and shifting architecture create a world in constant metamorphosis.

Stick around for a post-show talk following the 7.00pm show on 16 January. The post-show talk will be hosted by Annette Shun Wah and will last approximately 45 minutes.

15-18th January, Sydney Festival, Bell Shakespeare.

03/11/2025

Anito EU/UK Tour is underway!⁠
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Created by Justin Talplacido Shoulder and collaborators, Anito is a bold, q***r reimagining of a Filipino ghost story. Blending puppetry, dance, and experimental electronic music, the work conjures a “Queer Filipino Future Folkloric” space where nature spirits guide us through new futures.⁠
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17–18 Oct | FIMP Festival, Porto, Portugal⁠
22–26 Oct | Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany⁠
3–8 Nov | Southbank, London, UK⁠
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📸: Liz Ham

30/10/2025

A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera reimagining the connection between life and death.

Opera for the Dead 祭歌 fuses live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, this immersive multi-artform performance transforms from stage to cinema to dance floor — guiding you between the real and the imaginary, the past and the present.

“...a bold, strongly executed, and even dazzling display of Lim and Wang’s combined talents.” — Limelight

Adelaide OzAsia Festival
5–6 Nov 2025The Odeon Theatre, Norwood

📸: Michael pHAM

16/10/2025

Anito EU/UK Tour is underway!⁠
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Justin Talplacido Shoulder’s ANITO explores other ways of seeing and being in the world, attuned to more-than-human entities. The Creatures are hybrids of human, machine, animal, and plant, embodied through handcrafted costumes, masks, and prosthetics, animated by their own unique gestural languages.⁠ ⁠

Touring EU & UK | Oct–Nov 2025⁠
17–18 Oct | FIMP Festival, Porto, Portugal⁠
22–26 Oct | Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany⁠
3–8 Nov | Southbank, London, UK⁠
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📸: Sarah Walker

10/10/2025

to disappoint a god. is a hybrid Asian-futurist dance-theatre work starring Nuwa (女媧) — the Chinese mythological creation deity. Nuwa embodies the dichotomy of our existence: grief, agony, guilt and anger encased in the fragile, desperate fight to hold onto hope.

Through Nuwa, choreographer and performer Carmen Yih calls for reflection and accountability amid the global breakdown of climate, culture, and communication.

Drawing from Chinese folk dance, contemporary dance-theatre, Krump and W_acking, to disappoint a god. physically and conceptually contorts the archetypal Asian diasporic femme body — blending human and non-human, comfort and discomfort, strength and vulnerability.

Melbourne Fringe 2025
Wed 15 — Sat 18 October, 8pm
Dancehouse
📸: Gregory Lorenzutti

07/10/2025

A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera reimagining the connection between life and death.⁠
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Opera for the Dead 祭歌 fuses live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, this immersive multi-artform experience shifts from stage to cinema to dance floor — guiding you between the real and the imaginary, the past and the present.⁠
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An epic for those who find beauty in the darkness and humour in the macabre.⁠
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Adelaide OzAsia Festival⁠
5–6 Nov 2025⁠
The Odeon Theatre, Norwood⁠
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📸: Michael Pham

01/10/2025

25/09/2025

What does it mean to be human in an age where our impact reshapes nature itself?

Carrion, a solo performance by Justin Talplacido Shoulder, introduces a post-human spectre hat shape-shifts through multiple forms and languages. Wandering an archaeological site driven by nostalgia, the work unearths objects that spark revelations about simulation, consumption, and worship in an age of excess.

Drawing on q***r and ancestral mythologies, Carrion collapses past and future, revealing the transformations within us. Both tender and fantastical, it is a rite, a rebirth, and a speculation—offering a mesmerising, multi-sensory reimagining of the natural world and what performance, identity, and being can become.

Justin Talplacido Shoulder, also known as Phasmahammer, is a shape-shifting artist and storyteller working across performance, sculpture, video, and collective events. Their practice is an eco-cosmology of q***red ancestral myth, embodied through alter personas, handcrafted costumes, prosthetics, and unique gestural language.

Presented at Busan International Performing Arts Market
Thursday 25 September
Busan Citizen’s Hall Small Theatre
📸: Alex Davies

20/09/2025

A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera reimagining the connection between life and death.

Opera for the Dead 祭歌 fuses live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, this immersive multi-artform experience shifts from stage to cinema to dance floor — guiding you between the real and the imaginary, the past and the present.

An epic for those who find beauty in the darkness and humour in the macabre.

Adelaide OzAsia Festival
5–6 Nov 2025
The Odeon Theatre, Norwood

📸: Michael Pham

16/09/2025

Three contemporary dancers — Geoffrey Watson, Louie Wisby and Benjamin Hurley — move through a balletic score in and around a live basketball game.

In collaboration with filmmaker Sam McGilp, they create a live screen dance work presented to the audience in real time. This site-specific premiere parallels dance and sport, celebrating their shared expertise and artistry.

We believe the arts should be for everyone. Reduced-price tickets are available for anyone who might find cost a barrier.

Don’t miss this bold new collision of movement, sport and screen — book now.
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Narrandjeri Stadium, Victoria⁠
25th – 27th September ⁠
📸: Takeshi Kondo

10/09/2025

Three dancers one shot in public space

3 is a choreographic work for three dancers, a basketball team and camera - created by choreographer Yuiko Masukawa. It is a celebration of the virtuosity of dance, and the improvisational aesthetics of sport.

From its genesis as a dance-film, 3 won The Australian Ballet and Telstra’s Emerging Choreographer Award. Now as a full-length performance, 3 returns to the location it was originally filmed, Narrandjeri stadium, for a presentation that blends dance, sport and live-filmmaking.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Supported through a studio residency at WXYZ Studios, Lucy Guerin Inc. Development of 3 was proudly supported by The Australian Ballet. The project is produced & supported by Insite Arts.

📍: Narrandjeri Stadium, Victoria
🗓️: 25th – 27th September
📸: Takeshi Kondo

02/09/2025

Looking back at Plagiary's Netherlands season as part of Noorderzon festival in Groningen, August 14-16th.

Plagiary is constructed by multi award - winning dance technologist and choreographer Alisdair Macindoe. The piece is a dance performance experiment that employs an artificial intelligence as a speaking choreographer who generates an entirely new show before your eyes in collaboration with live contemporary dance improvisors.

"Despite using technology as a linchpin, Plagiary showed that humans can respond creatively to AI, but that AI can't yet replace human creativity” - Savannah Indigo, Artshub.

📸: Will Hamilton-Coates

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