inSPACE Developments
Experience new Australian performances being developed by some of the country’s most innovative performing artists.
Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE program is a cutting-edge, grassroots, innovative program that supports some of Australia’s most talented, independent artists. See hot new talent across all art forms including theatre, dance, visual arts and music. Be part of the artistic conversation: sharing, contributing and discovering how art is created behind the scenes. This creative blurring of the line between artist and audience reinforces Adelaide Festival Centre’s foundation philosophy that art belongs to everyone.
We provide a unique opportunity for contemporary and experimental theatre, dance and hybrid performance artists to access venues and services. Each artist/group chosen for the annual inSPACE program is provided with 1–4 weeks in rehearsal (including a provision for equipment hire). Two work-in-progress showings are presented to an invited audience at the end of each inSPACE development. On top of this support, funds will be available to be attributed to artist wages.
For further information please contact inspace@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
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2018 inSPACE program
Dates and venues of 2018 developments are still being finalised with artists. Current event information below.
Move AlongMove Along is a multimedia walking tour that explores themes of love, dispossession, and, visibility. Video and sound guide you on a unique urban adventure dotted with performances, culminating in interwoven site specific narratives. Creative Producer Jennifer Greer Holmes
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Damaged GoodsDamaged Goods is a solo research project that explores the frailty and unpredictability of being human.Through metaphor and imagery the work will delve into the experience of living and surviving in a world that sometimes throws everything at you, and at other times leaves you completely alone. Creative Director Tobiah Booth- Remmers |
![]() IMMIThe brainchild of artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, IMMI is a mishmash of poetry, music, photography, videography, animation, graphic design, visual art and performance, developed in collaboration with some of Adelaide’s best creative talent. Poetry Dom Symes |
Digging a Hole to ChinaA woman digs many holes in her desire to build a tunnel. On the other side, someone is digging too. This new cross-cultural theatre work by Ellen Steele examines Australia and China’s ever evolving relationship. Performer/Deviser Ellen Steele
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![]() s/wordss/words attempts to understand the rights and responsibilities of free speech in a polarised world through distilling the works of Milton, Payne and Mill into an approachable, hilarious contemporary dance piece, incorporating text, music, movement and light. Director/Choreographer Lewis Major
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The World is Looking For YouTogether, one woman and an audience go searching in the snow. The World is Looking for You is inspired by a real event where a ‘missing woman’ unwittingly joined a search party and set out to find herself. Director Daisy Brown Showing Thursday 15 November 2018 |
![]() The Mill’s Choreographic Futures inSPACE Development Residency
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![]() MascQueer music duo Winter Witches fuses elements of neoclassical with slow-wave electronica in emotive live art-meets-music performances. Their new work Masc is a moving, live song cycle questioning the insidious nature of a binary, gendered world. Made and performed by Winter Witches (Jason Sweeney & Em König) |
![]() Nil by MouthThrilling, gruelling and hilarious, Nil By Mouth is a durational theatre piece that is part scripted, part improvised, and part reenactment of the forces that shaped the tension and tragedy of Sydney’s 2014 Lindt Café siege. A Theatre Republic production |
Aphrodite and the Invisible Consumer GodsFeaturing audience interaction, humour and dance. This work follows the Goddess Aphrodite as she travels to the 21st century. What she finds is a media saturated society that sexualizes and objectifies women and fuels unrealistic expectations. Writer, Deviser, Performer Sam Donvito |
Still Point of a Turning WorldStill Point of a Turning World is an immersive, participatory, performance installation and it’s yours to explore. Wander around or find a place to sit and experience small scenes, poetic games, stories and meetings between audience and performers. Collaborators Sarah John, Emma Beech, Marga Socias, Tim Overton, Michelle 'Maddog' Delaney, Janice Vitovsky |
In the DarkIn The Dark is a sensorial, experiential theatre piece set almost entirely in the dark. In The Dark will take you on a journey into darkness. Director Tim Overton Showing Friday 7 December |
Past programs
Please click the links below for each year's respective program