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
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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