This is Daniel Riley’s first full-length production as Artistic Director of the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), which for the first time has an Aboriginal artistic director.
THE momentousness of Savage’s creation and premiere at the Adelaide Festival Centre is well documented. It is Wiradjuri dancer, choreographer and Bangarra Dance Theatre-alumnus Daniel Riley’s first full-length production as Artistic Director of the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), which for the first time has an Aboriginal artistic director, despite the company’s long history of performing works about (and frequently without the involvement of) Aboriginal people.
A one-act, non-narrative work, Savage’s opening night took place