The Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare is the national peak body for performing arts healthcare. Its members are performing artists themselves and those who work with them as healers, educators and researchers.

We share a passion and common belief which 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. In particular we ask you to visit our Conference Page, our News Page, our Facebook site and join our Mailing list . Or why not become a member of ASPAH or, if you are part of a larger group, Affiliate your organisation with ours.  And whether you are a member or not we may be able to help you through one of our Grants.  However you want to do it, ASPAH will help you to be a part of the latest happenings in Australian performing arts healthcare

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

ASPAH is a registered Australian charity.  All donations are tax deductible.

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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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