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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.

Performing Lines is best known as a company touring innovative Australian performance work, to a variety of circuits:
Australian metropolitan centres
Australian regional centres
International markets, particularly Europe, Canada, the UK and New Zealand.
However, Performing Lines is not just a tour manager, as it also produces new work from scratch – working with artists to:
Develop their ideas conceptually, facilitating the creation of their work
Manage all aspects of the creative process
Promote their work to potential presenters, as well as to funding agencies and other financial contributors
Performing Lines is also active in the industry beyond its own program of activities, assisting independent artists and small companies in a variety of ways:
Building skills and infrastructure
Providing advice on touring
Undertaking consultancy work on touring and other industry issues

We are currently engaged as consultants to Arts Tasmania, to manage its regional touring initiative, Tasmania Performs. We are available to undertake consultancies on touring, producing and management within the performing arts sector. Contact us for more information.

The company is a not-for-profit organisation with Tax Deductibility Status. Performing Lines is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through the Ministry for the Arts. It also regularly receives project support from the Australian Government through its national touring program, Playing Australia.
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