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PHOTO GALLERY: With a more traditional line-up of rhythm and dance artists, the 2024 WOMADelaide drew nearly 98,000 festival-goers over four days and carried a sweeping message of peace in the shadow of controversy.
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New York-based artist Elizabeth Streb has been challenging the notion of being ‘right way up’ since the 1970s. In an Australian premiere, performers will fling and fly their way around her ‘action machines’ in a spectacle of awe, danger and discipline.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Callout opens for a public artwork at the Queen’s Theatre, Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize returns after extended break, WOMADelaide reveals Planet Talks line-up, new artistic director set to join ACE, and Dog-Eared Readings heads to the Hills.
Nigerian singer and saxophonist Seun Kuti is one of the final four international artists announced for this year’s WOMADelaide and is promising to present a powerful show with the band originally formed by his Afrobeat pioneer father Fela Kuti.
WOMADelaide has revealed another 38 acts for 2024 – including a new show by the company behind feather-filled aerial spectacle Place des Anges – with significant changes also planned to the site after concerns this year about overcrowding.
Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley – the son of reggae legend Bob Marley – headlines a line-up of 28 artists from 25 countries in WOMADelaide’s first major announcement for the 2024 festival in Botanic Park.
