From breaking to ballet: new festival covers dance in all its forms

A new initiative from Australian Dance Theatre, the inaugural Adelaide Dance Festival will be held from 8-21 July 2018.

Australian Dance Theatre’s The Beginning of Nature. Dancers: Zoë Dunwoodie, Matte Roffe, Kimbal Wong, Harrison Elliott & Felix Sampson. Photo credit: Chris Herzfeld Camlight Productions.

The world premiere of a new work by independent Adelaide choreographer Lina Limosani, an Adelaide season of The Australian Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, and the Australian heat of an international b-boy (breaking, also known as break-dancing) competition, are among the many events planned for a new South Australian dance festival in 2018.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts