Asia TOPA Radar returns to Melbourne on 19 November with a showcase featuring some of the region's most exciting creative voices at Arts Centre Melbourne.
The event celebrates the international reach of Asia TOPA 2025’s commissioned works, with 14 shows now touring 17 cities across Australia, Asia and beyond.
Asia TOPA Creative Director Jeff Khan describes the showcase as a hybrid of artist talk and celebration, offering audiences a chance to hear directly from leading Asia-Pacific creators about their practice and inspiration. “It’s incredibly rewarding to see these works, which saw the beginning of their performance life at Asia TOPA 2025, now connecting with so many different audiences across the world,” Khan says. “This speaks to the power of art to transcend borders and build meaningful relationships.”
Asia TOPA Radar
- 19 November 2025
- Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
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The line-up includes award-winning choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi, alongside 乒乒乓乓 pin-pin-piàng-piàng curators Cloudy Ku and Harrison Hall. Australian Art Orchestra Artistic Director Aaron Choulai will also appear, fresh from performing Ane Ta Abia with Papua New Guinea’s Tatana Village Choir in Port Moresby.
Asia TOPA 2025 brought together more than 410 artists and collectives from 17 countries for a three-week festival earlier this year. Since then, the commissioned works have found audiences around the world. William Yang’s Milestone opened the festival before touring to Brisbane Festival and OzAsia Festival in Adelaide, with a stop at Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea still to come.
The collaboration between Australian Art Orchestra and Tatana Village Choir, Ane Ta Abia, heads back to Port Moresby in November, while Chunky Move’s U>N>I>T>E>D has already toured to Italy’s Biennale Danza 19th International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Singapore’s The Esplanade, with upcoming performances at Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan and Hong Kong’s FreeSpace Dance.
The VR experience Sensing Dark Matter made its way to SPRING Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, Taiwan’s Taipei Arts Festival and LoopLab Busan in Korea back in May. In December, Asia TOPA Club 8 artist Cloudy Ku will participate in an arts festival exchange at Serendipity Arts Festival in Panjim, Goa.
Asia TOPA is a joint initiative of Sidney Myer Fund and Arts Centre Melbourne, created to spotlight the creative output of artists and culture across the Asia-Pacific region.
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