The Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare is the national peak body for performing arts healthcare. Its members range form performing artists themselves to those who work with them at many levels, and who share a passion and common belief. This belief is succinctly expressed in the following sentence:

“The vitality of the arts and culture of any society is threatened by those forces that disable its artists.¹”

We intend to change the culture within which all performing artists operate. We see the health of the performing artist and the quality of their art as inextricably linked, yet all too often the two are treated as somehow separate with health taking a very poor second place to the art.

We believe this must change.

We encourage you to explore this website to find out more about ASPAH and what we do.

 1. Tom Hall,  Letter, Medical Journal of Australia Vol 146, page 390

ASPAH is for anyone interested in finding answers in the fields of performing arts health, performing arts medicine, music medicine, dance medicine, dance injuries, performance anxiety, performance stress, stage fright, RSI in musicians and anything else to do with illness and injury in the performing arts.

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