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Experience Dance at AF23
The 2023 Adelaide Festival program continues a long tradition of presenting some of the world’s great choreographers and creators with works that push the dance tradition into brave and exciting new directions.
Whether you are watching the world’s best on stage, or participating from the audience, there are many memorable moments of movement to experience this March! Read on for some of our favourites.
Revisor
Kidd Pivot / Crystal Pite / Jonathon Young
Another arresting work from one of the hottest dance-theatre collaborations in the world today. Revisor sees Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young team up with the extraordinary dancers of Vancouver’s Kidd Pivot for an exhilarating new work about corruption, deception and the forces of radical change, inspired by the farcical world of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector.
Those of you who were lucky enough to score tickets to Betroffenheit at AF17 will remember how meticulous, startling and hard-to-define Pite and Young’s work is. Join us for another riveting and inventive articulation of contemporary dance theatre from Canada’s finest!
“Dance theatre at its most vivid and mysterious … Just go!”
★★★★★ – The Telegraph
“I wanted to see it again, immediately”
★★★★★ – The Guardian
Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]
Marrugeku
Jurrungu Ngan-ga, translated from Yawuru as “straight talk”, takes inspiration from the words and experiences of Yawuru leader Patrick Dodson, Kurdish-Iranian writer and former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani, and Iranian-Australian scholar-activist Omid Tofighian.
This breathtaking new work from Australia’s own Marrugeku connects the shockingly disproportionate levels of Indigenous Australians in custody and the indefinite detention of asylum seekers in Australia’s immigration detention centres. It’s a mesmerising multimedia dance theatre piece combining movement, spoken word, installation and a powerful musical soundscape. Don’t miss it.
“A potent, superbly executed work that pulsates with sadness and rage, resilience and joy … Exquisite and unmissable”
★★★★1/2 – ArtsHub
“This is an astonishing work”
★★★★1/2 – Sydney Morning Herald
Tracker
Australian Dance Theatre
In one of his highly anticipated first works as Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre, Wiradjuri director-choreographer Daniel Riley evokes the immensely powerful and personal story of his great-great Uncle, Alec “Tracker” Riley.
Created in association with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, this culturally rich and ambitiously original multidisciplinary work rethinks how we engage with and experience First Nations storytelling.
“The genius of Tracker is that it pulls no punches, but it does so through art … a profound experience”
★★★★1/2 – Limelight
“…it is almost impossible to leave Tracker without feeling deeply moved.”
– The Saturday Paper
Enjoy Music at AF23
You Can Dance If You Want To!
See you on the dance floor at the following boogie-worthy shows across Adelaide this March.
CAMP COPE
The trailblazing trio are bringing their expanded live show to Hindley Street Music Hall for their final ever Adelaide performance alongside the brilliant Alice Skye.
WOMADelaide 2023
Did you know the D in WOMADelaide stands for Dance!? Limited single-day tickets now remaining to this four-day treat for the senses in Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park.
LORDE
Just try not to dance when pop superstar Lorde makes her triumphant return to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre stage, supported by MUNA and Stellie.
ALLDAY
Shake it loose with Allday, JK-47, BARKAA and Kobie Dee for a huge night of Australian hip hop at Hindley Street Music Hall.
Let’s Eat w/ Writers’ Week
New seats have been released for Tripping Over Himself: Shaun Micallef’s Career in Comedy as part of the Let’s Eat with Adelaide Writers’ Week dinner series on Monday 6 March. Get in quick as tickets are limited and they won’t last long!
Presented by East End Cellars and the University of Adelaide.
We acknowledge the land we live, work and learn on is the traditional land of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders. This land has been a place of movement, music and storytelling for over 60,000 years. We take pride in honouring those traditions.
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