World Premiere
Australian Dance Theatre
In the seven years since ADT’s Artistic Director Garry Stewart premiered his celebrated deconstruction of Swan Lake – Birdbrain – he has become one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary choreographers.
For the 2008 Festival Futures program, Stewart presents G, a non-linear re-composition of Giselle.
Dislocating and transcending Giselle’s romantic narrative, G converts the dancers from characters into visceral explorations of hysteria, sex, death, loss and metamorphosis.
Fusing the technical prowess and technique of classical ballet with his explosive and enthralling choreography for G, Garry Stewart has further extended the intensely physical dance for which he and ADT have become internationally renowned and revered.
G has been co-commissioned by The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work (New York), Southbank Centre (London) and Merrigong Theatre Co. at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (Wollongong).
This performance may contain nudity.
Biography
Garry Stewart
Artistic Director
Garry Stewart is artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre. He was appointed to that position in 1999 and followed Meryl Tankard who had directed the company, then called Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre, from 1993.
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