Adelaide Festival
Akram Khan’s latest collaboration brings Rudyard Kipling’s 19th-century classic into contemporary relevance, its post-apocalyptic setting, reimagined characters and flawless, multi-layered production transforming the beloved children’s tale into an urgent call to action.
Adelaide Festival
In a work brimming with vulnerability and vitality, the artists at Australian Dance Theatre ask us to pause and look inwards to our nation’s heart.
Presenting his first major commission since concluding his culture-defining stint at Bangarra Dance Theatre, Stephen Page will open the 2024 Adelaide Festival with a hypnotically beautiful work that reflects both his own career stage and Australia’s public conversation.
Ever been to a dance performance and wondered what it was all about? These basics can open the door to enjoying the beauty and complexity of this physical art.
Dancing can take a heavy toll on the professional artist’s body, but the aesthetic qualities of Javanese dance and rich creative collaborations have helped Adelaide-based Ade Suharto develop a practice to last a lifetime.
Australian Dance Theatre is celebrating the work of emerging artists with a bold triptych of new pieces exploring themes including the brain’s response to trauma, and language as a tool of colonial oppression.
