Australian Dance Theatre prepares to be slimed in Supernature
Red slime will emerge from pods suspended overhead to cover dancers in a new Adelaide Festival production.
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Dancers will be engulfed by a deep red, slime-like substance in Supernature, Australian Dance Theatre’s new work for the Adelaide Festival.
The show continues ADT artistic director Garry Stewart’s Nature series of dance, film and interactive works.
“I wanted to create an image in the work where humans are willingly incorporated into nature,” Stewart said.
The slime will emerge from pods suspended overhead as part of the production’s set design.
“It’s not like this slime attacks the body … really there is a symbiotic relationship,” Stewart said.
“There’s a stringiness to the slime that creates tendrils between the limbs on the dancers. The effect of it is a type of metamorphosis.”
Stewart will finish his role at ADT at the end of 2021 after 22 years – making him by far the company’s longest-serving artistic director.
An international search is on to find his successor, who is expected to be named mid-year.
Supernature is at Her Majesty’s Theatre from March 12-14. Book at BASS.
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