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2022’s Adelaide Festival promises gloom-busting joy and beauty

2022’s Adelaide Festival promises gloom-busting joy and beauty

It hasn’t been easy bringing this year’s festival to life, but its co-artistic directors have triumphed against the odds.

A restaging of the Rite of Spring ballet will be performed by dancers from 14 African countries.  Maarten Vanden Abeele

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Adelaide Festival joint artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield have never deliberately programmed to a theme.

But once the festival program is printed each September, themes tend to emerge anyway, says Healy. Next month’s 2022 festival – the pair’s sixth – is no exception, with gloom-busting spectacle and COVID-inspired ingenuity abounding.

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Michael BaileyArts & Culture editorMichael Bailey writes on arts and culture, and edits Weekend Fin. He is a former editor of the Financial Review Rich List. He is based in Sydney. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at m.bailey@nine.com.au

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