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15/06/2026

LATITUDES [Part 1]
Showcase of New Works

27.06.2026 Sat + 28.06.2026 Sun
8pm - 10pm (with 15-min intermission)
Goodman Arts Centre Blackbox

Presented by Dance Nucleus (Dance Nucleus) in collaboration with Performance Space (PERFORMANCE SPACE), and in association with cont.act Contemporary Dance Festival 2026 (cont·act Dance Festival) by T.H.E Dance Company (T.H.E Dance Company), LATITUDES builds on a decade of artistic exchange between Singapore and Australia.

The inaugural edition features two new and innovative works by the region’s artists-to-watch, firstly:

𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 by Rhiannon Newton (Sydney)
45 mins
A solo dance work that intricately weaves dance and text to make sensuous the ways our bodies entangle us with the world.

Choreography and Performance: Rhiannon Newton (Rhiannon Newton)
Music: Peter Lenaerts (Peter Lenaerts)
Lighting Design: Karen Norris (Karen Norris)
Costume: Aleisa Jelbart (Aleisa Jelbart)

🎟: Available via Peatix. (Link in bio)

ON STAGE TOMORROWPart comedy, part meditation on a changing Australia, Truck Driver is the latest solo-performance from ...
15/06/2026

ON STAGE TOMORROW

Part comedy, part meditation on a changing Australia, Truck Driver is the latest solo-performance from q***r icon Jonny Hawkins.

Ahead of the show’s world premiere at the Sydney Opera House, we spoke to Jonny about the deep research behind his truckie character 'Bev' and the incredible team of artistic collaborators joining him on the journey.

🔗 Read our interview and find your tickets: https://news.performancespace.com.au/blog/interview-with-jonny-hawkins

📆 16 - 20 June, 2026
📷 Joy M Lai

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

Opening this Thursday at Sydney Opera House!Martin del Amo invites you into a twisted world of fear, where humour, movem...
08/06/2026

Opening this Thursday at Sydney Opera House!

Martin del Amo invites you into a twisted world of fear, where humour, movement and menace collide in Scary Piece of Work.

🔗 Tickets available now: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/theatre/scary-piece-of-work

📆 11 - 13 June, 2026
📷 Wendell Teodoro

Scary Piece of Work is co-presented by Sydney Opera House with Performance Space and is executively produced by FORM Dance Projects.

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 q***rness, 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!

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