04/05/2026
It is a pleasure to welcome Amaara Raheem to Temperance Hall's Front Studio Residency. Amaara will have exclusive access to our dedicated private studio at the front of the building across May and June.
Welcome Amaara!
Amaara Raheem is a dance-artist whose work entangles dancing, writing, documentation and archives, drawing audiences into a physical imagination where fact and fiction blur. Born in Sri Lanka, raised in Naarm, and shaped by fifteen years in London, she works through long-term intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. Recent projects include re-play as a choreographic method through the Frank Van Straten Fellowship with Chunky Move, and Sick Witch Recites the Greater Mandala of Uselessness, a Firstdraft Writers Program commission exploring illness, agency, and embodied myth. Amaara is co-editor of Choreographic Practices, Convenor of Dance Research Australia, and part of the Curatorial Team at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), where she teaches on the MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism. She recently performed in Arini Byng’s How Just To Be (Gertrude Glasshouse, 2025) and Liz Rosenfeld’s Tremble (Temperance Hall, 2025). She lives between Naarm and Gariwerd, where dancing and bush regeneration intersect as practices of attention, improvisation, fury, and ecstasy.
Piloted in 2025, Temperance Hall's Front Studio Residency offers six independent artists a stipend and two months of unrestricted access to the Front Studio at Temperance Hall. At the conclusion of their residency period, artists are invited to present a public outcome with producing and documentation support.
Our 2026 Front Studio Residency program is made possible with the generous support of the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, and private donors.
