Dance at the Adelaide Festival

Posted on December 17, 2013

The programme for the 2014 Adelaide Festival has been announced, including dance, theatre, music, visual arts and film. The event is held at venues across Adelaide, Australia, from February 28 to March 16, 2014.

The festival’s dance strand opens with Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company in Sandeh21, choreographed by Ohad Naharin.

Australia’s Shaun Parker and Company dance Am I (pictured), which explores identity. Fourteen dancers and musicians, including guest artist Shantala Shivalingappa, perform Parker’s choreography and Nick Wales’ score, which draws on world music.

Blackout, by Australian-Portuguese group Stone/Castro, starts with “darkness from another world” invading a cheap wedding on a boat, where the guests try to escape into their imaginations.

For dates and tickets, see the Adelaide Festival website. 

Photograph: Josh Mu

Zoe Anderson

Zoë was born in Edinburgh, and saw her first dance performances at the Festival there. She is the dance critic of The Independent, and has also written for The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman and Dancing Times. In 2002, she received her doctorate from the University of York for a thesis on “Nationhood and epic romance: Ariosto, Sidney, Spenser”. She is the author of The Royal Ballet: 75 Years and The Ballet Lover’s Companion.