Since its inception, Performing Lines has travelled far and wide with tours specifically designed to give each company or performer access to a broader audience. Since 1990, it has worked with companies large and small throughout Australia, touring 100 productions to 300 locations around the world.

Performing Lines works from concept to production and touring. It works with artists at every stage of their careers, from emerging artists to internationally recognised names – and in many cases, plays a critical role in artists’ development. It produces or tours works presented at all levels of the Australian performing arts industry – from the contemporary arts venues comprising the Mobile States consortium, to regional venues large and small, to flagship venues such as Sydney Opera House, and to all the major Australian festivals.

The breadth and diversity of our work can be seen in our current program for 2008 and beyond: from William Yang’s meditation on the meaning of culture and belonging, China, to Branch Nebula’s high energy streetstyle dance work, Paradise City; from erth’s large scale visual theatre adaptation of Patricia Wrightson’s classic novel, The Nargun and the Stars, to Linsey Pollak’s solo transforming a bicycle into an orchestra, Cycology; from Tom Holloway’s moving play exploring the echoes of the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond the Neck, to Dancenorth’s powerful contemporary dance work, Underground.