This month on the Artmedia site we have a new blog featuring current Physical Theatre news items. The  Artmedia blog is designed to provide you with timely information on auditions, opportunities, festivals and training as a suppliment to our monthly newsletter.

As the blog developes a strong readership, we intend charging for this service, but grab your chance now to post your items for free. This site regularly gets 6000 visitors a month and we have a strong community of interest in physical theatre and electronic publishing.

Clown Film

Dance Film

On the Physical TV site, Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman have information on their Dance Films, including Thursday’s Fictions, a dance noir fantasy, which recently won the Director's Choice Award for Artistic Excellence in a Feature Film at the Park City Festival in Utah, USA.

Shows

Theatre LOTE, is an Australian theatre company providing innovative bilingual performances for theatre festivals and schools. Our productions are “boutique” in nature, with casts of two to three multi-skilled performers, and have strong music-theatre, visual and physical theatre components.

Broadway and Co - is a contemporary Australian circus company presenting touring shows, a range of roving and site specific performances, as well as workshops and training opportunities. 

Hemlock Mejarne is an acrobat, stilt-walker, and circus all-rounder, who has such a large range of skills and repertoire, it makes him ideal for any event.

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Physical Theatre News

This newsletter has evolved over the past five years, into an industry wide publication with an Australian focus and a global perspective.

The newsletter regularly carries information on circus, clown, mime, theatre, dance, and street theatre events worldwide - with information on festivals, classes, and news on physical theatre groups working in Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, Europe, England and worldwide.

Check out the archive for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 on the Physical News index page, and enter your email address below to receive this newsletter each month.

Training

Playspace Training with Alan Clay provides a physical and irreverent approach to clown. Check out the clown intensive in Sydney in May and the clown retreat in New Zealand next January .

Aerialize is an innovative theatre group that combines the art of dance, theatre, gymnastics and circus in an aerial environment. Aerialize have been thrilling local and international audiences with death defying feats of grace and beauty on the trapeze, rope and web. Check out information on their evening classes, and their performance projects.

Books

Check out Richard James Allen's newly released first novel, The Kamikaze Mind.

"An astonishing and rich work, pithy and witty, tender and often wise, sad and raunchy, imaginative and very surprising...I found myself constantly wishing to note down quotable quotes... eloquent and moving." Thomas W. Shapcott

Alan Clay's book, Angels can Fly, a Modern Clown User Guide, is available on order through bookshops in Australia and New Zealand, America and England. As well as exercises and theory on clown, this book includes anecdotes from a range of clowns from around the world, and a full length novel about ten clowns, to widen the readership to those with an affinity for clown. You can also check out the Angels can Fly Blog for an inside look at some of the material in this book and the new podcast of chapter one.

South Australian author Adrian Rogers, has three fantasy novels published as e-books - on CD Rom or by direct download. Check out his free short story.  "Lovers of dark fantasy will love The Secret Chronicle of Oisin. The author has written it in a style that entertains through the richness of its language and thought provoking concepts."

Scripts

We recommend Performing the Unnameable, an anthology of contemporary Australian physical performance scripts which sheds light on a range of practices in this groundbreaking area of performance. The texts, together with statements from the creating artists, illustrate by practical example and theoretical explanation, seventeen different relationships of writing and text to other performative media.

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ePublishing News

This newsletter has evolved over the past four years to become one of the leading sources of e-publishing information in Australasia.

This list is for the quarterly 'literary and epublishing' newsletter from Artmedia Publishing in Sydney, a publication with an Australian and New Zealand focus, and a global perspective, exploring the changing nature of the book and electronic publishing.

Check out the archive of the ePublishing Report and enter your email address below to receive this newsletter each quarter.

Artmedia Publishing  is run by Alan Clay.

Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Literary & Performing Arts

Artmedia links offers links to electronic publishing and writing resources. For performing links use Playspace links

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Our monthly Physical Theatre Newsletter has been going from strength to strength, and we have created an archive of back issues, which you can now browse on our Physical News page.

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