Be Your Self World Premiere at Adelaide Festival

The Adelaide Festival will feature the world premiere of garry Stewart's production 'Be Your Self.'

Garry Stewart's world premiere season of Be Your Self reveals the precarious stability of the concept of self as the work steps through the conventions we use to convince ourselves of a singular 'I'. In this extraordinary new creation Stewart situates the body at the centre of his inquiry. Despite our civilising cultural inscriptions the body is a force to be reckoned with. In Be Your Self the ADT dancers are transformed into erupting, powerful, creative entities projecting a mountain of startling physical images and impressions set to a wildly unpredictable, cartoonish, electronic score.

Collaborating with visionary New York architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro - (MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' recipients), Stewart wields dance, spoken text, video graphics and architectural design to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are.

Be Your Self promises to be a formidable new contribution to Australian contemporary dance.

Garry Stewart's intelligent infusion of art forms and audacious choreographic approach has taken Australian Dance Theatre to the forefront of international contemporary dance.

Season begins February 19, 2010. Book at Bass.