Exit interview: Adelaide Wood, Tracks Dance Company

Adelaide Wood has moved on to new challenges after five years in Darwin with Tracks Dance. Here, she reflects on her time with the company and the challenges and delights of making work in the NT.

‘Tracks is probably one of the best companies I’ve ever worked with. They are really phenomenal,’ says Adelaide Wood, the outgoing Company Director of Darwin’s Tracks Dance Company. 

‘We’re very much looking at Southeast Asia right on our doorstep, and we’re also looking at Arnhem Land and the Central Desert. We have such a rich cultural convergence point here in Darwin and we’re incredibly lucky to have that. And I think that is reflected in the people that you see on stage and the people that you see behind stage and the people who are writing works. We have a very particular flavour up here,’ Wood explains.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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