Performance Curators Academy

Anador Walsh is a Naarm-based curator, writer and the founding director of Performance Review. Walsh’s practice focuses on performance art and dance. Her current research centres on the conflation of performance with the digital and the evolution of live art “post” pandemic.
Walsh established Performance Review, a platform for the critical engagement with performance through writing, in 2021. In 2022, in conjunction with Gertrude and the Keir Choreographic Award, Performance Review’s mandate expanded into the presentation of performance and the covering of theatre-based dance.
In 2020, Walsh took part in the Gertrude Emerging Writers Program and was the 2019 recipient of the BLINDSIDE Emerging Curator Mentorship, for which she curated Connecting in the gray zone. She is Gertrude’s Associate Performance Curator; the Curator of Contact High (2022-2024), Gertrude and Performance Review’s annual performance program; and in 2022 curated the Naarm premiere of Angela Goh’s Body Loss at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Forthcoming curatorial projects include Performing Care (2024), Naarm, and Georgia Banks’ 2025 survey exhibition at Platform Arts, Geelong.
Walsh is a regularly published art critic and has written for Art Guide, Runway Journal, Memo Review, ACCA, PICA, Taipei Performing Arts Center and the NGV.

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