BalletLab to premiere Miracle in USA

BalletLab to premiere Miracle in USA!

BalletLab is traveling to USA to perform their award-winning work Miracle in its US premiere season. This project heralds a busy period over the next few months and a promising start to 2011, as the Melbourne-based dance company continue work on another major international project in Mexico on return, before heading back to the studio in Australia.

Miracle at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York

With a growing international profile, BalletLab will also present their Green Room award-winning work Miracle at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York on the 1st and 2nd of October, alongside a line up of internationally renowned companies at EMPAC’s autumn festival Filament.

During a pivotal 2008 residency at EMPAC supported by EMPAC and the Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), BalletLab consolidated this incredible post 9/11 work, recording sound and developing its provocative choreography further. Miracle takes up contemporary concerns about religious radicalism and uses revolutionary evangelical groups from the 1960s and 70s to explore the dynamics of group behaviour, rapture and the desire to achieve an alternative, transcendent state of being through religion. Miracle enjoyed considerable critical success in its sold-out 2009 season in Melbourne and returns to EMPAC for its US premiere, which has been supported by both the Australia Council and Arts Victoria. It has recently received three Helpmann Award nominations for Best Choreography, Best Sound Design and Best New Australian Work to be announced on 6th September, 2010. In 2009, Miracle won 2 Green Room Awards from its 5 nominations.

Lux Boreal , Festival de Mexico

Adams has also been commissioned to create a new work with Mexican contemporary dance company Lux Boreal to premiere in the Festival de Mexico in March 2011. In association with the Australian Latin American Foundation (ALAF), Adams has been working with Lux Boreal’s dancers in 2010-11 to develop the new work, Glückliches Schwein (Lucky Pig). Like a fairytale in the guise of a road movie, it tells of primal initiation rites, dreams of immortality and magical animal incarnations to explore the new age notion of reincarnation and the desire for apotheosis.

Australian audiences will be able to get their fix of BalletLab’s renowned experimental and experiential works in 2011 with an extraordinary trilogy event, presenting their first ever work Amplification (1999) alongside Miracle (2009) and a new third work Above over three nights. BalletLab will also premiere Aviary, presented in association with The Australian Ballet before 2011 is out.