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Australian Dance Theatre Presents Be Your Self By Garry Stewart

Australian Dance Theatre will tour the highly acclaimed and electrifying work, Be Your Self across Australia as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.

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Australian Dance Theatre will tour the highly acclaimed and electrifying work, Be Your Self across Australia as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. The national tour, starts in WA on the 20th of June, travels through NSW and ends in SA in August 2015.

Be Your Self explores the fundamental question about “self” using the body as the focus for this inquiry. The result is a performance filled with dynamic vitality that is breathtaking to watch and stimulating to think about.

Celebrated choreographer, Garry Stewart, who was most recently recognised as the inaugural recipient of the Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance said that despite being a complicated subject, exploring ideas of identity and self was endlessly fascinating.

The work integrates contemporary dance, music, spoken word and video into an extraordinary, immersive experience.

The dancers are transformed into erupting, powerful, creative entities projecting a plethora of physical images and impressions set to a haunting yet playful electronic score.

Be Your Self has received accolades from around the globe and across Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald described the show as “an exhilarating dance work,” The Daily Telegraph said that it was a “slick multimedia production” with a cast that would “literally fling themselves into the physicality of the choreography,” and Crikey said “There is no dance, theatre or dance-theatre company quite like it, anywhere.” After it’s Adelaide premiere in 2010, dB Magazine said the performance was a “breathtakingly powerful series of panoramic embodiments,” and Australian Stage said “this amazing show will be well received around the world.”

Under Garry Stewart, Australian Dance Theatre has built an international reputation for its distinctive style. The dancers train in a number of physical disciplines from ballet and contemporary dance techniques through to gymnastics, ashtanga yoga, breakdance and martial arts. The result is a fusion of forms, which constitutes a truly unique choreographic palette.

Tickets to Be Your Self are on sale now. Visit http://adt.org.au/current/works/be-yourself/ and follow links to your preferred location for information about how to buy.

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