Performing Lines

25/05/2026

🎉 Performing Lines is thrilled to be heading to Darwin Festival this August with two powerful works from Queensland and Western Australia.

🏡 Back to Bilo by Belloo Creative
A remarkable true story of resilience, belonging and the power of community. Following a sold-out season in Brisbane and multiple award nominations, Back to Bilo comes to Darwin with a dynamic combination of original music, stunning projection and deeply human storytelling.

📍 The Playhouse, AANT Centre, Darwin, NT
📅 Friday 7 August – Saturday 8 August
🎟️ Tickets selling fast — 🔗book now via link below
https://bit.ly/Back2Bilo

🐠 ARCO (Jnr & Snr) by Adam Kelly and James Berlyn
Adam Kelly is, in his own words, an autistic gentleman, and his friend is a fish called Finbar. Blending storytelling, playful imagination and interaction, ARCO is Adam’s award-winning show about living with autism, exploring experiences of rejection, celibacy and optimism with honesty, humour and heart.

📍 Darwin Community Arts, Darwin, NT
📅 Thursday 20 August – Friday 21 August
🎟️ Tickets selling fast — 🔗book now via link below
https://performinglines.org.au/projects/arco

19/05/2026

🎬 Performing Lines is proud to announce the launch of The Wendy Tapes, a four-part interview series honouring the extraordinary life and legacy of Australian performing arts pioneer Wendy Blacklock AM.💛

As the founder of Performing Lines, Wendy Blacklock was instrumental in building pathways for independent artists, fostering innovation, and championing stories from across Australia to reach audiences locally and internationally.

Through intimate interviews, personal reflections and archival material, The Wendy Tapes offers a rare and deeply human portrait of a producer whose vision and tenacity helped shape the national performing arts landscape.

The four interviews are conducted by artists, colleagues and friends with whom Wendy worked across more than three decades producing, founding and leading Performing Lines, including Wesley Enoch AM, Kate Champion, Annette Downs and Ian Temby AO KC.

🎥 Watch the series via the link below.
https://bit.ly/wendy-tapes

14/05/2026

📣 Registrations Open: 2026 NSW Producers Exchange

Join us on Wednesday 10 June for the 2026 NSW Producers Exchange, centred around the theme Risky Business and Safe(r) Spaces.

This year’s Exchange brings together producers, artists and arts workers from across the NSW performing arts sector for an evening of practice-led ideas, firsthand reflections and sector connection.

The event will include a short panel discussion exploring how we can support bold, challenging artistic work while creating genuinely safe, ethical and responsible environments for everyone involved. The discussion will be followed by networking.

📅 Wednesday 10 June 2026
⏰ Doors open 5:30pm for a 6pm start
📍 PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville NSW
🥂 Drinks and light snacks provided

Free event, but RSVP is essential as capacity is limited.
🔗 RSVP by Wednesday 3 June via the link below.
https://bit.ly/NSWProdEX26

Panellists to be announced soon.

05/05/2026

Across Mandarin and Cantonese speaking countries, when someone is in the middle of the hard work, you shout it: 加油. Add oil.

Watch Performing Lines Artist Joe Paradise Lui show us how adding oil makes delicious performance with bold flavours, backed by research and development. We partner in risk and celebrate for bold flavour centred on Lived Experience.

Care to join?

Give to Performing Lines today and fuel transformative performance.
https://performinglines.org.au/support-us/

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30/04/2026

📣 Kolyang Program 2026 WA-SE Asia Lab — EOIs Open ✨

Performing Lines WA is thrilled to announce the return of our residential Kolyang Artist Lab, a four-day program supporting artists to develop project ideas and expand their practice. Facilitated by Sandi Woo, the Lab brings together nine artists working across live performance to engage with several mentors. The Lab will take place from 30 July to 2 August and is open to artists at all stages of their career. This year, the Lab will host seven WA artists and two Indonesian artists.

📅 EOIs Open: Friday 1 May 2026
📅 EOIs Close: Wednesday 27 May 2026
📣 Notifications: Wednesday 3 June 2026

👆🔗 Read full details and apply now via the link below
https://bit.ly/Kolyang2026

📸 Midfield, delivered by Fremantle Biennale, Performing Lines WA and STRUT Dance – Image by Thomas Earnshaw

30/04/2026

📣 Performing Lines publishes our 2025 Annual Report ✨

🎉 559 creatives employed
🎉 12 new works premiered
🎉 19 creative developments
🎉 10 tours here and overseas
🎉 16 sector development programs

🎉 Across 249 performances and 10 national and international tours, our work engaged audiences and participants in 20 cities and towns across Australia, and 14 international cities in 9 countries.

We’re often so immersed in the work—the process, the people, the outcomes—that we don’t always pause to tell our story. These numbers speak to the collective impact of artists, producers and presenters working together across the country. 🥂

🔗 View the full Annual Report and Financial Overview via the link below 💛
https://bit.ly/PL-Annual-Report-2025-Publish

27/04/2026

🔥 M’ap Boulé opens at Horizon Festival 2026 this weekend ✨

🎶✨ M’ap Boulé — Haitian Creole for “I’m on fire” — is a play with songs tracing Nancy Denis’ journey to embrace her Black, Q***r, Haitian and Australian identities, carried by the pain and joy of her self-liberated ancestors — a celebration of culture, connection, resistance and spirit 🔥🕯️

★★★★
“M’ap Boulé is a gift of vital life, a celebration, a revolution. It ignites, and we all catch alight.” — Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★
“It is the emotional connection to the songs that will stay with you after you leave the theatre.” — Time Out Sydney

📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Final tickets remaining 🔗 grab yours now via the link in bio.

Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️

21/04/2026

20/04/2026

🔥 The fire continues… come experience M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026 ✨

Nancy’s 5 Ways M’ap Boulé connects to culture — Part 2

4️⃣ FOUR
“I talk about The Ancestors. In this renaissance of people connecting and understanding our old ones from before and how they live through us, we celebrate those who walk beside us, guiding us and caring for us.”

5️⃣ FIVE
“For all you spiritual girlies looking for the answers, M’ap Boulé, through song, spoken word and chit chat, explores the rollercoaster journey of the health of our minds and the important practice of finding joy.”

📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Tickets selling fast 🔗 secure your seats now via link below
https://bit.ly/M_apBoule

Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️



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13/04/2026

🔥 Meet Nancy Denis in M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026

Nancy Denis is a bold multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, television, film and music. Her work spans Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Ensemble Theatre and Hayes Theatre Company, with screen credits including ABC’s Cleverman, Netflix’s 600 Bottles of Wine and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

She is the creator of the touring original play with songs Ma’p Boulé, a work exploring her Haitian ancestry, originally developed in collaboration with Urban Theatre Projects and now produced by Performing Lines. Nancy continues to develop new work as both performer and director.

✨ Catch M’ap Boulé at Horizon Festival 2026.

📍 Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour QLD
📅 2–3 May 2026
🎟️ Tickets selling fast 🔗 secure your seats now via link in bio.

Come feel the fire. 🔥🕯️



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