Adelaide Festival Of Arts 2016
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is one of the world's great arts events. The Festival have delighted audiences for more than 50 years in an outstanding mix of inspiring, challenging and entertaining artists and performers. This celebration of arts from around the world caters to world-renowned theatre productions, an eclectic array of world-class musicians, breathtaking dance pieces and striking visual arts displays.
“From the largest event in the festival's history to unquestionably one of the loudest, 2016 will start and end with a bang and promises not to let up in the middle.” - David Sefton, Artistic Director - Adelaide Festival of the Arts 2016 Artistic Director
Adelaide will get to see Pina Bausch after 35 years, with James Plays and Group F. Group F will grace the opening-night pyrotechnic spectacular À Fleur de Peau illuminating the magnificent Adelaide Oval. The closing event features the epic live bands SUNN 0))) and MAGMA.
The festival includes over 50 shows and the much-loved Adelaide Writers’ Week:
Mary Norris
Boo!
Go Down, Moses
The Events
Heart Beat
James I
Unsound Adelaide
Habitus
Vernissage Weekend
The James Plays Trilogy
Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo
The Young King
James II
James III
Magic Object
Alleged Dances
Body Of Work
Monumental
Tectonics Adelaide
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Country
Exquisite Corpse
Golem
Deluge
Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium
Voyage To The Moon
Womadelaide
Sunn O))) And Magma
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