Applications are now open for the 2011 Incubator residency program at Vitalstatistix. Submissions are invited from directors, devisors, performers, designers, new media artists, playwrights and creative teams to develop new performance, installation or hybrid arts work. Based at Waterside, Port Adelaide, in Vitals' large and flexible space, the Incubator residencies provide a highly sought after opportunity for creative development in a supportive producing environment.

Incubator residents have opportunities to feature in Vitals' future programming and in 2011 we will be hosting two residencies over the year. Applications are welcome from artists across Australia.

Applications are due 31 August 2010. A copy of the application form and guidelines are available on the Vitalstatistix website www.vitalstatistix.com.au.

Although ShoGo companies are busy delivering the 2010 season, they are already gearing up for some fabulous new projects for 2011...

One such project is a collaboration between Windmill Theatre and The Border Project. Set to premiere as part of Come Out 2011, this production will be 'choose your own adventure' theatre where you control the action. Through specially designed 'zigzag' wireless interactive controllers (which act like Wii remotes), you will be able to make choices throughout the show deciding what characters choose to do, wear and more.

This collaboration is being created specially for a generation fluent in interactivity. The Border Project developed zigzag interactive theatre technology with Matthew Gardiner for their multi award-wining work Trouble on Planet Earth in 2007. No two shows will be the same, and this not-to-be-missed new theatre work is perfect for family audiences.

Co-Opera is celebrating 20 years of activity in Australia, South East Asia and Europe with a Denim 'n' Diamonds Birthday Party. Come along for an evening that will include singing, dancing, a silent auction and party games.

When: Saturday 3 July 2010 at 7pm

Where: Thomas Edmonds Opera Studio, Adelaide Showground

Cost: $25 BYO food and beverages, $60 fully catered

Bookings: DEMS Consultants (08) 8232 1844

Adelaide born actor, singer and performer, Hugh Sheridan (best known for his role as Ben Rafter in the television series Packed to the Rafters) is the new patron for Urban Myth Theatre of Youth.

Sheridan studied at Unley Youth Theatre (now Urban Myth), before going on to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and winning his Packed to the Rafters role. More recently, he has gone on to win a TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Popular New Male Talent, released his debut album through Sony Music and performed his own one man show, Newley Discovered as part of this year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

ABC TV's Artscape program is featuring a full half hour program about Restless Dance Theatre works on Tuesday 29 June 2010 at 10pm. Necessary Games, a collection of three short dance films Restless created in collaboration with Closer Productions, has won numerous awards in various festivals throughout Australia and around the world. Each of the three films will be shown, along with interviews with the dancers, choreographers and filmmakers, giving insight into the inspiration and ideas that went into making these works.

Restless Dance Theatre is an exciting Adelaide-based company where non-verbal modes of dance are used as eloquent forms of self-expression. The three films that form Necessary Games - Moths, Sixteen and Necessary - showcase unique and compelling dance performances by people both with and without disabilities. The films deal with the subjects of dreams, desire and intimacy. Each work creates an emotional connection between the dancers and inspires physical acceptance and freedom of their diverse and, at times, surprising physicality.

Necessary Games has won the following awards: Best Experimental Short Film at the 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival, Best Short Film at the SA Screen Awards, Best Experimental Short Film at the 2009 Australian Teachers of Media Awards, Best Work for Sixteen at the ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival and Best Experimental Short Film at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the brilliant work of Restless. ABC1 on Tuesday 29 June 2010 at 10pm.

ABC TV's Artscape program is featuring a behind-the-scene documentary about the creation of Be Your Self on Tuesday 8 June at 10.05pm. This compelling documentary follows the company through the final weeks leading to the premier of Be Your Self at the 2010 Adelaide Festival. Don't miss the opportunity to see this internationally lauded company at work. ABC1 on Tuesday 8 June at 10.05pm or ABC 2 on Sunday 13 June at 6.30pm.