Season Overview for HOT: New Dance and Performance from Australia
The works in this season are representative of the distinctive and sophisticated dance and performance being made in Australia at…
New Commission: In Your Hands – Arts House / Australia Council
In 2013 I worked with Arts House (North Melbourne) to initiate In Your Hands, a project based on developing what I term ‘itinerant’…
The Festival of Live Art has arrived … but what is live art?
New article published today in The Conversation By Robert Walton, University of Melbourne The inaugural Festival of Live Art (FOLA), which…
Aung San Suu Kyi Speech on World AIDS Day 2013
I found myself directly in front of Aung San Suu Kyi at the 2013 World AIDS Day launch on December…
On Earthquake at VCA – The Age
The Age carried this story about the two Australian premieres staged at VCA in October 2013. I directed one of…
Acting up – climate change cause needs performers’ help
By Robert Walton, University of Melbourne, written for The Conversation Republishing of my article for The Conversation (8 July 2013)….
Transdisciplinary Form and Production: Reflections on Translation, Embodiment and Mobility (through Alma Mater, 2011)
by Robert Walton and James Oliver A collaboratively authored paper available in 2012 Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Proceedings. The paper responds to…
The Perfect (Performance) Gift
When speaking with students about how to make a performance for the rest of the class I seem to talk…