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Daniel Riley’s inaugural program as new artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre presents a collaborative and thoughtful triptych of works that mediates between the disparate world-views of Aboriginal and post-colonial Australia, reflecting the disruption and hope that comes at times of urgent transformation.
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Dance
Artistic director Daniel Riley has unveiled his inaugural season for Australian Dance Theatre, with the showcasing of First Nations culture and talent central to his vision for the company as it enters an exciting new chapter.
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Adelaide Festival
An ear-splitting explosion. A shuddering light. A plunge into darkness. From the outset, Wudjang: Not the Past grabs us by our neatly-pressed collars and hurls us into the dark chasm of Australia’s colonial legacy.
The Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells do the impossible, transcending phenomenally high expectations to bring together old and new in two deeply immersive works of gut-wrenching beauty and genius.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | After a year of frustrated touring plans, Erin Fowler is relieved to be bringing solo work EGG back to Adelaide Fringe – the platform where it first drew the attention of local audiences and programmers around the world.
Emerging choreographer Samuel Hall wants audiences experiencing his new work-in-progress dance piece Womb to leave feeling refreshed and “rebirthed”.
Garry Stewart marks his departure as artistic director of ADT in a restaging of his bold and iconoclastic G: 60 minutes of raw, frenetic energy in a deconstruction that obliterates every trace of sentimentality from the romantic narratives of the classic 19th century ballet, Giselle.
In a sector in which precarious funding poses an ongoing challenge, Adelaide-based Restless Dance Theatre’s 30-year success story is worth celebrating – and the company has plenty more in store for 2022.
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Festivals
This powerful, haunting performance by Adelaide-based Alison Currie and Japanese-born, Berlin-based Yui Kawaguchi explores the constraints and possibilities of this strange new age in which we find ourselves.
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Dance
THE BUSINESS OF ART | For choreographer Lewis Major, bringing his contemporary dance company home to South Australia after many lauded years working in Europe is as much an exercise in entrepreneurialism as it is in creativity.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Thrilling contemporary dance on stage and screen, finalists selected in health art prize, a new appointment at Slingsby, artists secure prestigious international scholarship, and two local writers’ festivals unveil programs.
Polystyrene and other industrial plastics are upcycled and transformed in a bold new dance performance that investigates humans’ relationship with objects and challenges our thinking about waste.
New film In The Heights draws on almost 100 years of movie musical choreography – from Million Dollar Mermaid to West Side Story. Here are some highlights.
The Australian Ballet, in collaboration with Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet, combines old-world charm with state-of-the-art technology in a truly exceptional production of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
