Australian Dance Theatre | |
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General information | |
Name | Australian Dance Theatre |
Year founded | 1965 |
Founding artistic director | Dr. Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM |
Principal venue | 57A Queen Street Norwood, South Australia South Australia 5067 Australia 34°58′15″S138°36′30″E / 34.9709°S 138.6083°E Coordinates: 34°58′15″S138°36′30″E / 34.9709°S 138.6083°E |
Website | www |
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Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), known as Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1999, is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM . The ADT was the first modern dance company in Australia, and drew on the techniques of Martha Graham for its inspiration.
The company has garnered many industry awards, was the first Australian company invited to the Edinburgh Festival, and is the only Australian company to be invited to perform at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. The company has toured performances extensively throughout Australia as well as internationally.
As of 2022 [update] the artistic director of the company is Daniel Riley, who took over after Garry Stewart had spent 22 years at the helm.
The Australian Dance Theatre was founded by Elizabeth Dalman (later Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM ) in 1965. [1] [2] Dalman sought to "open the horizons for provocative contemporary and cutting edge dance". [1] The ADT was the first modern dance company in Australia, and drew on the techniques of Martha Graham for its inspiration. Eleo Pomare was an early collaborator and the songs of Peter, Paul and Mary featured strongly in their early works, such as "This Train".[ citation needed ]
Dalman remained artistic director until 1975. [3] [4] Several directors followed, including Leigh Warren, who took the reins from 1987 to 1993. [5]
Under Meryl Tankard as artistic director from 1993 to 1999, the company was known as the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre. Tankard left after disputes with the Board. [6] After an interim directorship under Bill Pengelly, [7] Garry Stewart was appointed in 1999. [8] [9] [10]
In May 2021 Convergence was performed at the ADT's home base, the Odeon Theatre, Norwood. [11] Supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, this series of short performances brought together the work of three winners of the International Choreographic Competition Hannover: Philippe Kratz (2018 winner, Germany); Oscar Buthelezi (2019 winner, South Africa); and Tu Hoang (2020 winner, Vietnam); of the newly formed South Australian First Nations Dance Collective (who danced to the music of Electric Fields); and of Barkandji woman Adrianne Semmens, a member of the SAFNDC and associate artist of ADT for 2021. [12] Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, South Australia, being free of the virus at that time, was able to play to 100% capacity. [11] The performance was well-reviewed. [13] [14]
Wiradjuri man Daniel Riley, who spent 12 years with Bangarra Dance Theatre and then time as a lecturer in contemporary dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, [15] took over as artistic director at the end of 2021. Riley is the first Indigenous person to become an artistic director of a non-Indigenous dance company in Australia. [16] This responsibility weighs heavily on him, but he was inspired by playwright Wesley Enoch, the first Indigenous artistic director of a major theatre company, at Queensland Theatre. [17] Before his appointment he had performed and choreographed extensively in Australia and internationally. [15] While at Bangarra, he was the youngest male in the company to choreograph a work, creating a work called Riley, which paid tribute to the work of Aboriginal artist Michael Riley, to whom he discovered he was related, as second cousin. [18] He has also choreographed for QUT, Third Row Dance Company in the UK, Sydney Dance Company, [17] and Louisville Ballet. [18] Riley met ADT founder Elizabeth Dalman when he was at school in Canberra, aged 13, although did not know about the ADT until they toured Canberra a few years later. He has since remained friends with Dalman and they talk often. [17]
Riley believes in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach, and is dedicated to creating shows that "can only be made here [on Kaurna country], not making work that looks like it's been made by a European company". [17]
The new season and troupe, with four new dancers, were unveiled in March 2022. [15] The first performance under Riley was Outside Within, a triptych of works that explores Aboriginal and post-colonial Australia, with the first of the three, Immerse, choreographed by Adrianne Semmens. [19] This was followed by a short film made in 2021 featuring Riley and his son, called Mulumna-Within; and then Riley’s first dance work choreographed by him for the company, The Third (May 2022) [20] [21]
In September 2022 Riley presented his first major work, at the Dunstan Playhouse in the Adelaide Festival Centre, called SAVAGE. The performance included nine dance students from Flinders University/AC Arts along with the ADT dancers. [22] [17]
The ADT is funded by the federal government through the Australia Council, the Government of South Australia through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet [23] (1997–2018 via Arts South Australia) and a number of corporate partners and sponsors, as well as private donors. [24]
The artistic directors have been:
The company has toured performances extensively throughout Australia, as well as Ireland, Korea, Canada, USA, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Monaco, Japan, Spain, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Norway and Colombia.[ citation needed ]
ADT has garnered 28 industry awards since 2002, was the first Australian company invited to the Edinburgh Festival and is the only Australian company to be invited to perform at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.[ citation needed ]
The International Centre for Choreography (ICC) at the ADT, supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, was founded around 2016. It fosters choreographic initiatives locally and internationally, including residencies and other opportunities at ADT for the winners of the International Choreographic Competition Hannover (for which Garry Stewart has been on the judging panel). [13] Its mission is "to facilitate open research and experimentation in a supportive and professional environment". Other initiatives of the ICC include dance workshops, discussion panels, collaborations, and screen dance projects. [28]
Choreographed by Dalman: [3] [4]
Choreographed by Taylor: [26]
Choreographed by Tankard: [27]
Choreographed by Pengelly: [7]
Choreographed by Stewart: [8]
Choreographed by Riley:
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