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'The Rite of Spring'. Photo by Florian Heinzenziob.

The 2022 Adelaide Festival program announced

The 2022 Adelaide Festival program encourages us all to return to live performance with joy and anticipation, and will gather together a community of...

Australian Dance Theatre's 'Supernature'. Photo by Sam Roberts Photography.

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Questions of existence: Australian Dance Theatre’s ‘Supernature’

Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.12 March 2021. The eery, shadowed stage filled with fog and imposing cocoon like sculptures overhead. We eagerly awaited...

Sydney Dance Company's 'Impermanence'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Transported at Adelaide Festival: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Impermanence’

Festival Theatre, Adelaide.10 March 2021. I’m not sure we all need a reminder of how impermanent our comfortable lives are after the...

Gravity & Other Myths's 'The Pulse'. Photo by Darcy Grant.

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Defying gravity at Adelaide Festival: Gravity & Other Myths’s ‘The Pulse’

Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.26 February 2021. In a time of limited crowds and social distancing, The Pulse felt liberated and effervescent. Sixty performers all...

Australian Dance Theatre Artistic Director Garry Stewart.

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Australian Dance Theatre launches season to farewell Garry Stewart

Garry Stewart, artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), has announced that he will step down at the end of 2021. Stewart’s...

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Adelaide Festival 2021 is full of dance highlights

The 2021 Adelaide Festival is coming up from 26 February to 14 March 2021, and the program is full of exciting dance...

'Enter Achilles'. Photo by Hugo Glendinning.

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Except for that heel of his: DV8 Physical Theatre’s ‘Enter Achilles’

The last time DV8 Physical Theatre performed Enter Achilles at the Adelaide Festival, it was 1996. Since then, the nascent internet has become...

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Australian Dance Theatre’s double announcement: 2020 program and new executive director

Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) will be celebrating its 55th year in 2020, and that’s not the company’s only news. With an ambitiously...

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Dance 2020: Our most anticipated dance shows of the year

2020 promises to be another busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dancelovers and creatives. In the mix includes the...

Hofesh Shechter's 'Grand Finale'. Photo by Rahi Rezvani.

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Hofesh Shechter: Dance’s ‘Grand Finale’

The Hofesh Shechter Company’s Grand Finale returns to Melbourne this month after performing in the Adelaide Festival in March earlier this year. There...

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The hottest and most anticipated dance events of the year

Just a couple months in, 2019 has already proven to be a busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dance...

L-E-V Dance Company in 'OCD Love'. Photo by Regina Brocke.

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Sharon Eyal’s L-E-V Dance Company: The heart of ambiguity

You can almost hear the cogs whirring in her head. There is a pause. Then: “I think in life, everything is emotional,”...

'Un Poyo Rojo'. Photo by Ishka Michocka.

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‘Un Poyo Rojo’ at Adelaide Festival: Look what’s in the locker

There’s no need to be shy, even though the correct terminology, direct from one of the horses, is cock. A red cock,...

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Meryl Tankard’s ‘Two Feet’: To fly and to fall

Ballet loves its beautiful lines and its graceful symmetries. It also loves a skinny ballerina; and for every dying swan, there is...

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Hofesh Shechter’s ‘Grand Finale’: This might be the start of something else

“I stole it from the world of classical ballet,” declares Israeli-born, London-based, Tony-nominated choreographer Hofesh Shechter of his widely acclaimed 2017 work, Grand...

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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Comes to Adelaide

By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. Going out on a limb is one thing; allying that with solid technique is another. When...

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Sadeh21 – Batsheva Dance Company

Festival Theatre, Adelaide March 5, 2014 By Deborah Searle of Dance Informa. Adelaide Festival brought Batsheva Dance Company in Sadeh21 to the...

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Dance News Australia

Bone structure

With its pop objects, x-ray screens and technical precision, Larissa McGowan’s full-length debut Skeleton stands poised to flesh out a very promising...