From delicate duos to a mass gathering of 1,000 dancers, the Adelaide Festival shows a bright vision of Australian contemporary dance.
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The past few months has seen the sudden departure of leadership from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre, Opera Australia and the Adelaide Festival.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
Writers festivals navigate the fraught frontier between social media’s echo chambers of outrage and the civilised public debate of the public square. What’s the way forward in this heated atmosphere?
Adelaide Festival is arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.
The survival of the Edinburgh International Festival, and others like it around the world, is testament to ingenuity of organisers and performers. But there’s no substitute for the live experience.
Choreographer Stephanie Lake brings together nine dancers and nine drummers in this thrillingly original work.
Billed as an opportunity for frank conversations, this beautiful production was a deeply impactful sharing of what matters in life.
Sebastian Goldspink’s 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State is a conceptual riposte to this colonial settler history, and much more.
Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan was murdered at a gay ‘beat’ in the 1970s. His death was instrumental in South Australia’s decriminalisation of male homosexual acts.
This beautifully crafted production at the Adelaide Festival is an intricate look at families and memory.
The thinking behind the idea of a dump near Whyalla goes back 60 years.
Neil Armfield’s production of the Benjamin Britten opera is a triumph of sure-footed direction, subtle vocal shadings, brilliant comic timing and orchestral precision.
This new work from Restless Dance Theatre is staged in a bowling ally, and asks us to consider the possibilities of perspective.
This new play based on Martin McKenna’s memoir tells a difficult story with theatrical skill and artistic heart.
Four choirs in 12 concerts cover 500 years of musical terrain, connecting the psalms to the contemporary world for the Adelaide Festival.
This new production from State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir explores the messy and contradictory inner selves of pre-teen girls.
Australia’s three major summer festivals in Sydney, Perth and Adelaide give an interesting insight into how festival programming is changing – or not.
Hofesh Shechter’s latest contemporary dance work is not the rousing narrative its title might suggest. Its dancers inhabit a global catastrophe and then a brutal new world order.
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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PhD candidate in music, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Theatre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD candidate Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Flinders University
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University