Individual skills are what prepare a student, but it's collaboration that actually makes a performance." - Lucas Jervies, The Australian Ballet School.
In May, students from Australia's eight national performing arts training organisations came together on Darkinjung Country, NSW Central Coast for four days of connection, creation and exchange as part of the eighth annual Arts8 Collaboration.
Bringing together actors, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and circus artists from across the country, the collaboration creates opportunities to share practice, challenge perspectives, build networks and learn across disciplines. Collectively known as the #Arts8, we are united by a commitment to excellence in performing arts training and to shaping and securing Australia's creative and cultural future.
We are:
The Australian Ballet School
Australian Film Television and Radio School
Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Australian Youth Orchestra
Flying Fruit Fly Circus
NAISDA
National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA)
National Institute of Dramatic Art
Our sincere thanks to the Arts Minister the Hon Tony Burke MP, Special Envoy for the Arts Susan Templeman MP, the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts (AusGov Office for the Arts) our many staff, students and communities whose support makes this collaboration possible.
