Adelaide arts organisations Restless Dance Theatre and Vitalstatistix are celebrating this week after having their multi-year federal funding reinstated by Creative Australia, but a devastated Slingsby Theatre Company says its long-term future is now uncertain after its application was knocked back.
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.
Vitalstatistix’s annual experimental art hothouse Adhocracy returns this week, with 13 projects that speak to both the new ideas and emergent forms of practice capturing Australia’s artistic minds.