An exciting line-up of dance, including works by acclaimed choreographer Meryl Tankard, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Australian Dance Theatre, features on the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2014 program launched today.
Tankard’s The Oracle – set to Stravinsky’s composition for the ballet The Rite of Spring, which caused riots at its 1913 premiere in Paris – will be performed by dancer Paul White at the Dunstan Playhouse in August.
ADT director Garry Stewart’s Multiverse, which incorporates 3D visuals, will play at the Space Theatre in July, while Bangarra’s Kinship, an original work by Stephen Page exploring what it means to be Aboriginal in the 21st century, will be staged at the Dunstan in October. Contemporary dance works by South Australian choreographers Lina Limosani and Daniel Jaber also feature in the 2014 line-up, along with the Australian Ballet production of Cinderella.
Festival Centre artistic director and CEO Douglas Gautier said 2014 would be the venue’s largest-ever season, “with two large-scale musicals [the previously announced South Pacific and The Rocky Horror Picture Show], an exciting array of family entertainment and several exciting collaborations with our home companies”.
South Pacific opens the season in December/January, followed by the return of magic show The Illusionists.
Sessions will once again offer a series of intimate gigs at the Space Theatre during January, including “retro-rock” by Aussie act The Basics (led by Wally De Backer, aka Gotye), US soul singer Lee Fields, Adelaide group Vincent’s Chair, and former WOMADelaide favourites Babylon Circus, The Correspondents and Fefe,
Highlights throughout the year include the six-hour Adelaide Festival show Roman Tragedies, New Zealand opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, ’70s pop singer Helen Reddy, the world premiere of the one-man show Little Bird starring Paul Capsis, and Pixar in Concert with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Newly announced shows on the Festival Centre program include “vibes virtuoso” Nick Parnell, Cabaret Festival musical theatre performance Still Awake Still! by Jessica Wilson, Guitar Festival guests Pepe Romero and Yamandú Costa, Circa’s circus/cabaret/vaudeville show Wunderkammer, the Choir of King’s College, from Cambridge, and Seychelles funk-soul singer Grace Barbé.
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