The 2020 WOMADelaide festival features a range of dance, physical theatre and contemporary circus works from around the world.
From Taiwan comes B.Dance with Floating Flowers. Created by the company’s founder, Po-Cheng Tsai, Floating Flowers is inspired by traditional Taiwanese religious celebrations that take place at the Buddhist Ghost Festival. Combining traditional Asian movement and martial arts with contemporary dance, Floating Flowers explores the Southeast Asian tradition of using water lanterns to pay respects to the deceased, represented here by dancers who appear to waft over the water. Head to our homepage to see a video trailer of this work.
LosTheULTRAMAR, by Mexican company Foco alAire is a work that uses choreography to explore the role of public space, containment and minimal movement. Walking in procession the dancers move through public space, performing and interacting with the public.
Presented nightly in From Park, As the World Tipped, by the UK’s Wired Aerial Theatre takes place 13 metres above the audience. Politically charged and environmentally focused, the audience witnesses the dancers perform as their world is, literally, tipped upside down. Using dance, theatre and projections, As the World Tipped illustrates the very real and immediate realities of climate change.
Finally, Adelaide based circus company Gravity and Other Myths presents A Simple Space, a work that fuses acrobatics with human connection.
WOMADelaide takes place March 6-9, 2020. For more info head to www.womadelaide.com.au
Pictured top is 'As the World Tipped' by Wired Aerial Theatre.