So pleased for you Rick. Congrats! 💖

Thanks Chris - me too, dammit! So annoying

Ah, I can see it not being someone’s cup of tea

Anyway, please read, it's free and Tanz is an excellent magazine.

“There hasn’t been any perspective for a while now,” says another respected choreographer. “One cannot plan, funding is extremely uncertain, and demoralisation characterises the independent professional scene all around, artists, critics, venues and festivals included."

“Lack of funding acts as a form of censorship. It may not be explicit, but its effects are undeniable.” says choreographer Márta Ladjánszki.

“There are financial sources that are gone or drying up, reduced budgets, the starving out of artists and communities, and subtle manipulations of ownership or institutional background... Most artists lost their access to public funding and decided to stop or reduce their activity"

There the problem is authoritarianism. Here the problem is corporatism. But the effects are basically identical. Some quotes from Hungarian artists below that could all be said (and have been said) by Australian independent artists.

In that you disliked it or did everyone else? (Just got back from Brisbane and have caught a cold and am slightly sideways today)

Thanks Keith 🙏🏻

Me and so many others!