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2026 Drama Australia
National Conference
2026 Drama Australia
National Conference
Drama Australia and DramaWest, in association with Perth Festival and Perth College, proudly present the 2026 National Conference for Drama Educators.
PLAY! 2026 Drama Australia National Conference Partners:
PLAY! 2026 Drama Australia National Conference Partners:
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Zen Zen Zo Perth Stomp
Zen Zen Zo Perth Stomp
A deep dive into the training methods of physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo, led by the company's founding director, Dr. Lynne Bradley.
Now in its 33rd year, ZEN ZEN ZO is a Brisbane-based physical theatre company at the forefront of contemporary performance and training in Australia. This program, led by Zen Zen Zo founder, Dr. Lynne Bradley, has now been held in all the capital cities of Australia – as well as Auckland, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Bristol and Singapore, and is open to performers, directors, teachers, and creative souls!
PERTH STOMP '25 will take participants on a journey of transformation, both personally and professionally, as we investigate the ingredients of “extra-ordinary theatre” in a rigorous, fun and challenging environment using Zen Zen Zo’s specialty training methods, including The Suzuki Method, Viewpoints, Butoh and Composition. Dr Lynne Bradley will also be joined by Guest Artist Shaun Johnston who will take classes each day in his partnering practice, Wrestling 2 Dance.
VENUE:Now in its 33rd year, ZEN ZEN ZO is a Brisbane-based physical theatre company at the forefront of contemporary performance and training in Australia. This program, led by Zen Zen Zo founder, Dr. Lynne Bradley, has now been held in all the capital cities of Australia – as well as Auckland, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Bristol and Singapore, and is open to performers, directors, teachers, and creative souls!
PERTH STOMP '25 will take participants on a journey of transformation, both personally and professionally, as we investigate the ingredients of “extra-ordinary theatre” in a rigorous, fun and challenging environment using Zen Zen Zo’s specialty training methods, including The Suzuki Method, Viewpoints, Butoh and Composition. Dr Lynne Bradley will also be joined by Guest Artist Shaun Johnston who will take classes each day in his partnering practice, Wrestling 2 Dance.
- Perth College
- 31 Lawley Crescent, MOUNT LAWLEY, WA, 6050
WHEN:
- Sat 6 and Sun 7 December:
- 2-Day Fundamentals of Physical Theatre
- 9am - 5pm each day, with a lunch break from 12:30pm - 1:30pm
- The weekend will focus on building a strong foundation for working in physical theatre and devising processes. Tools and exercises from Zen Zen Zo's methodology will help participants ignite their imagination and connect deeply with their performing bodies.
- Sat 6 to Wed 10 December:
- 5-Day Physical Theatre Intensive
- 9am - 5pm each day, with a lunch break from 12:30pm - 1:30pm
- The full course is an opportunity to dive deeper into Zen Zen Zo's unique style of physical training, to let us find depth and embodiment in our work as performers. We'll use Suzuki Method, Viewpoints and Butoh to train our poetic, expressive body. Guest artist Shaun Johnston offers his Wrestling 2 Dance practice, exploring how touch can be used to keep our work playful and dramatically rich.
Participants can book for just the weekend, or for the full course.
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Drama Australia Updates
Drama Australia Updates
What does Drama Australia do?
A video presentation has been prepared that summarises the role and activities of Drama Australia.
All DramaWest members are automatically a member of Drama Australia.
All DramaWest members are automatically a member of Drama Australia.
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Drama Advocacy
What is the point of Drama?
This article from The Conversation with members is especially useful at subject selection time.
This article from The Conversation with members is especially useful at subject selection time.
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ADEM 2025 Call for Papers
We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for the 2025 edition of ADEM is now open! Once again, we have drawn on the Drama Australia Conference for inspiration for our theme, INVIGORATE. We encourage presenters from the national and state conferences to submit articles based on your presentations. We also invite submissions from writers who have not presented!
Please read the attached Call for Contributions for details on the theme, guidelines and responsibilities. All articles must be submitted by Monday 30 June 2025 via email ADEM.Drama.Australia@gmail.com. If you would like to discuss an idea with the Co-Editors, please email prior to this date.
Please read the attached Call for Contributions for details on the theme, guidelines and responsibilities. All articles must be submitted by Monday 30 June 2025 via email ADEM.Drama.Australia@gmail.com. If you would like to discuss an idea with the Co-Editors, please email prior to this date.
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NAAE Updates
An Update from John Saunders - Chair of NAAE
| With several Australian tertiary arts, creative industries, and arts education courses being discontinued, reduced, or currently under review, the NAAE is conducting an anonymous survey to gauge the full impact of these changes. If you know of a course or major at an Australian university that has been affected between 2018 and 2025, please consider submitting an anonymous response to the survey. The survey can be completed as many times as needed for individual courses. | |
| Please feel free to share. This is also on their socials. The NAAE are preparing to write to the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Minister for Arts regarding this. |
An Update from Susan Davis (Drama Australia) – Summary of latest NAAE Meeting
NAAE – Term 3 Summary
The National Advocates for Arts Education met in September 2024. We discussed the following key items:
- Reflections were shared on the NSW Joint Select Committee’s Inquiry Into Arts and Music Education and Training. Several NAAE national and state affiliated associations gave testimony at the hearings. The inquiry’s submissions, transcripts and videos of the hearings are available here. NAAE’s submission can be accessed here.
- NAAE’s chair worked with Professor Daniel Harris (RMIT) and Dr Rachael Jacobs (Arts Nexus/Western Sydney University) to provide a briefing to Commonwealth Education Minister’s Schools Advisor as a follow-up to the Arts Nexus Forum on PISA’s Creative Thinking assessment. We emphasized the interconnected nature of arts education and creative thinking. A brief summary can be found here.
- NAAE’s is hosting a Queensland Arts Education, Arts Training and Arts Industry Roundtable with our state affiliates and other key organizations and institutions to discuss the current state of the arts in the lead up to the Queensland state election in late October.
- NAAE members continue to map commonwealth policy initiatives against the National Cultural Policy: Revive. We are setting up meetings with The Office of the Arts, and Creative Australia to discuss the actions in Revive pertaining to arts education.
- Dr Jeff Meiners Dance, former NAAE member and outgoing Chair of Dance and the Child International(daCi) joined the meeting to provide a briefing about UNESCO’s work in developing the framework for culture and arts education.
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