In 2007, the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council commissioned AEA to identify the most significant trends and factors likely to influence the health and vitality of the 29 largest performing arts organizations in Australia over the next two decades. 

In addition, AEA was asked to identify key measures or indicators for these trends that can be tracked over time and used in strategic planning by the Board and the arts groups themselves.

This study formed part of the Board’s ongoing work to ensure that Australia has an artistically vibrant, financially viable and broadly accessible major performing arts sector. It extends the Board’s efforts, triggered by the Major Performing Arts Inquiry in 1999, to address systematically the complex challenges facing the major performing arts companies and collect and analyze data about their artistic vitality, financial health and public services.

Read the final report, “Anticipating Change in the Major Performing Arts."

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