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Australian Dance Theatre ‘Adapts’ with virtual online season

The ADT is offering audiences a free season of online dance performances as it explores the new reality and what it means for the arts.

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The Beginning of Nature
The Beginning of Nature

The 2019 Helpmann Award winner for Best Dance Production explores the forces that nature asserts over humankind despite our continued efforts to see ourselves as separate from it and the notion that our bodies are inscribed with the same rhythms that underpin nature itself.

Composer Brendan Woithe, collaborated with Kaurna consultant, Jack Buckskin, to develop the original score fusing electronica with the strings of The Zephyr Quartet. With accompaniment by two vocalists, the spellbinding score includes a libretto sung in Kaurna language, the first language of the Adelaide Plains, where ADT is based.

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Be Your Self

Be Your Self

After a series of conversations with a Buddhist monk and a neuroscientist, Garry Stewart began to question what it is that constitutes the self and what it means when we say ‘I’.

Set to a wildly unpredictable electronic score by Brendan Woithe, Stewart combined dance, spoken word and video projection to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are.

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G

G

Following his postmodern deconstruction of Swan Lake in Birdbrain, in 2008, Garry Stewart continued his trajectory of referencing iconic ballets with the debut of G, a reworking of Giselle.

In researching G, he referred to an essay titled, ‘Giselle, Madness and Death’ by Steven Wainwright of Kings College, London, which links the narrative of Giselle to the pathologisation of women as ‘hysterics’ in early 19th century France.

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Devolution

Devolution

In Devolution, Garry Stewart collaborated with Canadian roboticist Louis-Philippe Demers, UK video artist Gina Czarnecki and London-based costume designer Georg Meyer-Wiel to create a startling and utterly unique world.

Situating humans in communion with 30 robotic machines and prosthetics, Devolution explores the relationship between robotic and human performers within an artificial ecosystem to find that, in the midst of technology, we remain subject to the imperative and irrepressible instincts of the flesh.

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HELD

Held

HELD explores the nature of everyday physics, perception and the body-in-action via the nexus of dance and live photography. HELD was made in collaboration with critically-acclaimed dance photographer Lois Greenfield.

Greenfield captures seemingly impossible moments that exist hidden in the ballistic choreography, well beyond the threshold of seeing. These breath-taking images are projected onto a series of large video screens interplayed with stunning video art amidst cool, expansive electronic music.

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The Age of Unbeauty

The Age of Unbeauty

The multi-award winning work reflects on man’s inhumanity to man. Garry Stewart attempts to articulate the dichotomies that exist in the terror wrought by humans alongside our imperative need for each other.

From running up and across walls through to intertwining bodies at phenomenal speed, the dancers bring to life feats of physical daring as a means of transmitting the brutality that humans can visit upon each other as well as the urgency in the need to escape this.

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Birdbrain

Birdbrain

Garry Stewart’s first full-length work for ADT, Birdbrain cross examines the grande dame of classical ballet, Swan Lake, dismantling the narrative completely.

“Everyone has at least some image Swan Lake. It’s an icon that pervades our culture from the Opera House to the football club,” Stewart said. “In Birdbrain I’ve drawn forward the interstices of the narrative: the action of the lovers throwing themselves across the space into the lake, and the moment of metamorphosis when the swans bodies buckle and contort back into being women again.”

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