Temperance Hall is here to stay – for the queers, for the misfits, and for Melbourne’s vast and brilliant community of dance artists.
Over the past 12 months, our staff and Board have worked to Reassemble Temperance Hall. With the help of key supporters, we have brought ourselves back from the brink and we are slowly but surely building something vivid and renewed.
In 2025, Temperance Hall is artist-run, and our focus is support for the practices of independent artists.
We provide critical infrastructure for the expanded dance community at a time of great need and artform stress.
We foreground, defend and enable courageous art making. We create conditions conducive to true experimentation; we offer artists the literal and figurative space to let the mysteries of their creations unfold; we are a bulwark against the administrative burden that weighs down independent artists.
Support for Artists at Work
Resources remain scarce, but our priorities are to support artistic practice in simple and tangible ways.
In 2025, our Front Studio Residency signals our future direction: six independent artists – Tony Yap, Chung Nguyen, Geoffrey Watson, Deanne Butterworth, Gabriella Imrichova and Fleur Conlon – each provided with:
Can you help?
Last year, generous and forward-looking supporters of Temperance Hall provided the financial investment that established the Front Studio Residency.
This year we have an opportunity to expand this program with the Apartment Studio Residency – offering Melbourne’s only on-site, live-in artist-in-residence program dedicated to dance and experimental performance.
The Apartment Studio Residency will enable Temperance Hall to host visiting regional, national and international artists, bringing diverse practices into direct conversation with local artists.
Beyond these residencies will be developments, showings, workshops – the building blocks of artistic practice, artform development and cultural creation. The emphasis is on supporting artists at work – thinking, testing, practicing, failing, sharing, creating.
Can you help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?
Donate
There are many ways to contribute.
We need financial contributions to:
On July 13th, we are holding a working bee at Temperance Hall to:
Share with your networks:
Yes
Yes, as soon as your donation is processed.
We respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which Temperance Hall is located, the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Temperance Hall is here to stay – for the queers, for the misfits, and for Melbourne’s vast and brilliant community of dance artists.
Over the past 12 months, our staff and Board have worked to Reassemble Temperance Hall. With the help of key supporters, we have brought ourselves back from the brink and we are slowly but surely building something vivid and renewed.
In 2025, Temperance Hall is artist-run, and our focus is support for the practices of independent artists.
We provide critical infrastructure for the expanded dance community at a time of great need and artform stress.
We foreground, defend and enable courageous art making. We create conditions conducive to true experimentation; we offer artists the literal and figurative space to let the mysteries of their creations unfold; we are a bulwark against the administrative burden that weighs down independent artists.
Support for Artists at Work
Resources remain scarce, but our priorities are to support artistic practice in simple and tangible ways.
In 2025, our Front Studio Residency signals our future direction: six independent artists – Tony Yap, Chung Nguyen, Geoffrey Watson, Deanne Butterworth, Gabriella Imrichova and Fleur Conlon – each provided with:
Can you help?
Last year, generous and forward-looking supporters of Temperance Hall provided the financial investment that established the Front Studio Residency.
This year we have an opportunity to expand this program with the Apartment Studio Residency – offering Melbourne’s only on-site, live-in artist-in-residence program dedicated to dance and experimental performance.
The Apartment Studio Residency will enable Temperance Hall to host visiting regional, national and international artists, bringing diverse practices into direct conversation with local artists.
Beyond these residencies will be developments, showings, workshops – the building blocks of artistic practice, artform development and cultural creation. The emphasis is on supporting artists at work – thinking, testing, practicing, failing, sharing, creating.
Can you help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?
Donate
There are many ways to contribute.
We need financial contributions to:
On July 13th, we are holding a working bee at Temperance Hall to:
Share with your networks:
Yes
Yes, as soon as your donation is processed.
We respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which Temperance Hall is located, the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
