Performance Space

Performance Space Developing and presenting experimental performance art from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific for over 40 years.

03/06/2026

We’re excited to announce a brand-new artist development program for experimental sound artists.

The emergence of the Experimental Sound Program is rooted in artistic discourse and PSpace’s commitment to supporting communities of experimental practice.

The 2026 program also seeks to position itself in relation to our broader world, inviting artists whose voices pe*****te into spaces as yet unknown to come together and amplify their work.

This end of financial year, let’s create the future of experimental performance, together. Donations fuel groundbreaking art, champion visionary artists, and ensure that experimental voices continue to thrive.

🔗 Learn more about the Experimental Sound Program and supporting PSpace at the link in our bio

Videography: Nisa East, Luke Smith, HOSSEI. Videography & Edit: Jason Winston

02/06/2026

The Create Space Residency continues to bring alumni from our Q***r Development Program to the .

The 2026 Create Space Residency artist was composer performer Solomon Frank (), whose practice expands upon the clarinet, replacing parts of the clarinet with other objects, homemade aluminium and plastic reeds, balloons, hoses, vacuum cleaners, and pumps.

Solly’s work, The Castration of Uranus, is a hybrid live art opera that merges notated music, improvisation, and performance to explore queerness, ecology, and identity through the search for a phantom testicle, a future husband, and cryptic native orchids.

The project has undergone two development stages at Sydney Opera House. This culminated in a showing last month that brought together chamber opera, installation, extended clarinet practice, and physical theatre.

This residency is supported by Creative Australia.
Video: Nisa East

Ivey Wawn and Rhiannon Newton spent the past weekend as hosts to a constellation of growths and emergent archetypes in a...
27/05/2026

Ivey Wawn and Rhiannon Newton spent the past weekend as hosts to a constellation of growths and emergent archetypes in a durational performance of Premonition: At the end of a dream of a cave, a portal…

Cycling between premonitions and their fulfilment, they collaborated with artist Del Lumanta, exorcising these hostings, and unravelling a dreamscape at the far end of a portal.

Performance Space extends our heartfelt thanks to Critical Path, AGNSW, Artspace Sydney, and ReadyMade Works for residencies that supported the work.

Please join us in congratulating the team on an incredible weekend in the cave!

📷 Lucy Parakhina

25/05/2026

Fear takes centre stage in this bold new solo work from acclaimed choreographer Martin del Amo.

'Scary Piece of Work' invites you into a twisted world of fear, where humour, movement and menace collide.

Enter at your own peril…

📆 11 - 13 June, 2026
🔗 Find out more; https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/theatre/scary-piece-of-work

Presented by Sydney Opera House Presents in association with Performance Space and produced by FORM Dance Projects

21/05/2026

Performance Space is thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2026 Experimental Performance Fellowship - Angela Goh.

Angela is a dancer and choreographer who works across gallery, museum, and theatre contexts. Her performances have been commissioned and presented by institutions in Australia including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Victoria, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and internationally at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Serralves Museum, Porto; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Auto Italia, London; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; Taipei Performing Arts Center; and Performance Space New York, amongst others.

She has participated in large scale international exhibitions including the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and is currently creating newly commissioned works for the 16th Gwangju Biennale and the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art.

During the fellowship, Angela will undertake a year-long, self-directed program of research and development.

Please join us in congratulating Angela on this incredible achievement.

Video Credit: Performances by Angela Goh: 'Axe Arc Echo' (2023), performed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘Sky Blue Mythic’ (2021), Performed at Sydney Opera House. ‘Total’ (2024). 'Body Loss' (2017), performed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2020. Documentation by Hospital Hill. Video Edit: Jason Winston.

Join us this weekend for Rhiannon Newton and Ivey Wawn’s ‘Premonition: At the end of a dream of a cave, a portal’.The wo...
20/05/2026

Join us this weekend for Rhiannon Newton and Ivey Wawn’s ‘Premonition: At the end of a dream of a cave, a portal’.

The work is grounded in an improvised performance practice that has grown between Newton and Wawn since they first met in ‘the shadow cave’ through the Performance Space x AGNSW Lab in 2023. In this practice, dances are always first experienced as a premonition before they are realised physically.

The barn doors at Critical Path will be open and audiences are welcome to come and go as they please.

We hope to see you in the cave.

📆 Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 May, 2-4 pm
Attendance free. Register; https://events.humanitix.com/premonition-at-the-end-of-a-dream-of-a-cave-a-portal

Applications close tomorrow!
19/05/2026

Applications close tomorrow!

TRUCK DRIVERA Soft Tread production presented by Sydney Opera Housein association with Performance SpaceThe road reveal...
18/05/2026

TRUCK DRIVER

A Soft Tread production presented by Sydney Opera Housein association with Performance Space

The road reveals everything you’re running from

Have you met Bev yet? He’s a larrikin with some rough edges. But hear him out, his experiences offer a rare glimpse into a world that’s often overlooked.

Part comedy, part meditation on a changing Australia, this solo show is the latest genre-defying work from Jonny Hawkins and Nell Ranney.

Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

📆 16 - 20 June, 2026
📸 Joy Lai

🔗 Tickets available now; https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/theatre/truck-driver

"It’s inspired by the idea that fear is everywhere: in the dark forests of childhood fairy tales, in political speeches ...
14/05/2026

"It’s inspired by the idea that fear is everywhere: in the dark forests of childhood fairy tales, in political speeches where fearmongering has become routine, in conspiracy theories and social media rants, and in our enduring fascination with horror."

In Scary Piece of Work, Choreographer Martin del Amo takes on one of our most primal emotions: fear. We spoke to Martin about the show's themes, his return to solo performance and combining movement with verbal storytelling.

🔗Read more on the PSpace blog; https://news.performancespace.com.au/blog/interview-with-martin-del-amo

📆 11 - 13 June, 2026
📸 Wendell Teodoro

Scary Piece of Work is presented by Sydney Opera House in association with Performance Space and produced by FORM Dance Projects

Join Performance Space and Critical Path for a National Cultural Policy Drop-In Session!We get it, putting pen to paper...
08/05/2026

Join Performance Space and Critical Path for a National Cultural Policy Drop-In Session!

We get it, putting pen to paper to share your thoughts for the next National Cultural Policy (Revive 2.0) can be daunting, and keeps getting shunted down the to-do list. But we also know nothing will change unless we make our voices heard!

We want to see as many independent, experimental and diverse creatives as possible adding their voice to the discussion, so we’re hosting a drop-in session with our pals at Critical Path on Saturday 23 May.

Saturday 23 May, 10am to 2pm
Critical Path, 1C New Beach Road, Darling Point

Drop in any time as suits, no need to book

BYO laptop / tablet etc. and the energy to put your thoughts on the new National Cultural Policy into writing.

We will provide comfy seats, snacks, a collegial atmosphere with tech support if needed, tips to make sure your submission hits the mark, and a round of applause when you hit submit!

Let’s ensure that Revive 2.0 reflects the full kaleidoscope of the arts in Australia!

Let us know you're coming; https://events.humanitix.com/national-cultural-policy-drop-in-session

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