Performing Lines Leadership in the Australian Independent Arts Sector is Recognised as Creative Australia Announces its Inclusion into the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework (NPAPF) from 2025

Performing Lines is excited to announce it will be joining the National Performing Arts Partnership Framework (NPAPF) from 2025, as announced by Creative Australia earlier today.

Performing Lines Chairperson, Robi Stanton said that the company is a unique addition to the Framework, as one of the only organisations working with independent performing artists nationally.

“We are proud to have been recognised for our leadership and significant contribution to the performing arts sector, and we commend the vision of the Government in supporting Performing Lines.

We look forward to continuing to champion the independent sector as a powerful force of contemporary cultural expression,” Robi Stanton, Performing Lines Chairperson

Inclusion in the Framework, will provide the company with stability and security over the next 8 years, allowing for long-term planning and commitments to artists, presenters and industry, as well as an important seat at the table to champion the independent sector.

Support under the Framework comes from Creative Australia, Arts Tasmania, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (WA) and Create NSW.

Our teams and board members in New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania and Victoria look forward to upholding our strong, 40-year track record of supporting independent artists, producing quality works and designing and delivering sector-based capacity building initiatives that contribute to the very fabric of the Australian performing arts sector, ensuring its current and future sustainability and vibrancy.

In the last eight years, Performing Lines has employed more than 3,000 artists and arts workers, premiered more than 50 new Australian works, toured to more than 200 communities across Australia, taken 22 Australian works to audiences internationally and delivered more than 70 sector development programs supporting more than 2,000 artists and arts workers.

Performing Lines works with some of the country’s most daring independent artists and companies across dance, music, theatre, experimental practice and other genre-bending forms.  

It has produced works that have significantly impacted the performing arts landscape in the country including Nigel Jamieson and Paul Grabowsky’s extraordinary Indonesian collaboration The Theft of Sita; Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s The 7 Stages of Grieving; William Yang’s Sadness; Tanja Liedtke’s construct and Twelfth Floor; the Chooky  Dancers and Nigel Jamieson’s Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu (Wrong Skin); Wesley Enoch’s I am Eora, Paul Mac and Lachlan Philpott’s The Rise and Fall of St George, Sensorium Theatre’s Oddysea and WHOOSH!; Nathan Maynard’s The Season; Andrea James’ Sunshine Super Girl, and Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s The Second Woman. 

Performing Lines will join 38 other organisations as part of the Framework.

“We would like to pass on a big congratulations to La Boite whom we are in company with, in today’s announcement. We look forward to working closely with the 38 other NPAPF companies in our mission to strengthen the cultural sector for years to come.” says Robi Stanton.

About Performing Lines

Performing Lines is a national company with staff and board members in NSW, Tas, Vic and WA working with independent artists from across the country, leveraging local knowledge and networks, as well as a national pool of resources to best support artists and their work.

This nationwide company is the powerbase that fuels the work of our most innovative performing arts sector. We work in step with artists whose practice is constantly evolving and who are changing the way new Australian work is being made and shared. By supporting new ways of thinking, practicing, and experiencing the arts, we are a leading and formidable national producing force.

With a strong track record for supporting independent artists and producing quality works that contribute to the very fabric of the Australian performing arts sector, Performing Lines takes a two-channel approach to its sector contribution:

• Producing performing arts work for some of Australia’s most imaginative and daring independent artists, from creative development through to touring, with bespoke producing arrangements for each artist that we work with.
• Designing and producing capacity building initiatives that respond to specific sector needs, working closely with partners from across the sector to ensure current and future sustainability and vibrancy.