Turning 60 in style: Australian Dance Theatre leaps from the stage to the gallery wall

“It’s extraordinary that a dance company – a contemporary dance company – has reached the age of 60 in this country,” says Daniel Riley, a Wiradjuri man and Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT).

“It just felt right to make something that was celebratory, that echoed the past, but was also really fiercely looking forward. Because I think ADT’s work has always looked forward via every artistic director – there’s always been a real push forward in the form, in what it’s saying, in the way it’s made – and every artistic director has had their version of what that forward momentum is,” he explains.