Kantanka is a creative collective led by artist Carlos Gomes that incorporates the talents of visiting artists, who collaborate on a project-by-project basis. Since Kantanka’s inception in 1995, the company has been making contemporary art, reflecting on our culturally diverse society. The ensemble company has created a number of significant productions - using ancient tales, diverse cultural influences, non-traditional performance sites, and new technologies, while employing a dynamic visual design and a strong physical aesthetic.

At Kantanka, we

• Explore the creative possibilities of cross-cultural performance works
• Empower culturally diverse artists
• Develop our practice of visual poetics through collaborations with interdisciplinary artists
• Establish creative relationships with the diverse social groupings that form our society, echoing the real world within the fictional world of performance
• Engage with diverse audiences
• Re-define new forms of collaborations