Arts Centre Melbourne

By now, you probably think you've seen all circus has to offer, right? But have you ever seen a culturally adventurous, genre-defying narrative performance work that melds circus with contemporary dance and visual theatre from Vietnam? We thought not. À...

Avid Australian theatregoers know Ilbijerri Theatre Company pretty well as one of the country’s leading makers of Indigenous work. We’re probably not as familiar with Te Rēhia Theatre, one of New Zealand’s leading companies for Māori theatre. But this...

A heavy metal choir from the underground Indonesian music scene makes their first appearance outside of their home country in this ambitious and boundary-pushing performance. Eight metalheads from Ensemble Tikoro will share the stage with Melbourne-based...

Why do people hold onto things? To outdated magazines, dusty cassettes, to clothes no longer worn, toys no longer loved? Are they so rooted in memory that to throw them away would be as criminal as to forget? Or perhaps it’s borne out of a capitalist...

Geography aside, China and India might seem to be world's apart. But in this new dance piece, those worlds come together in unexpectedly harmonious ways. Performed by Chinese dancer Hu Shenyuan and British-born Indian dancer Aakash Odedra, Samsara is...

In 2017, director Caroline Guiela Nguyen's gorgeous play about families between Vietnam and France quickly became the hit of the prestigious Avignon Festival. So why did this particular show rise to the top of one of the world's biggest celebrations of...

Alice Topp is one of the rising stars of Australian choreography, most recently picking up a Helpmann Award for Best Ballet for her acclaimed 2018 work, Aurum. Now she’s receiving another accolade: being paired with one of the giants of contemporary ballet,...