"The exceptional response we've had to this festival has shown how important cultural interaction is and our connection to each other within the Asian region has resonated with artists and audiences alike, attracting attention across Australia and the wider region." Jacinta Thompson, Festival Director
The Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival was established in 2007 and is held annually in September/ October (according to the lunar calendar) for approximately ten days.
The Festival presents work by Australian artists that identify with an Asian heritage, stages collaborative work between Australian and Asian artists, and presents a cross section of traditional and contemporary cultures of Asia. In 2010, the OzAsia Festival has a Korean flavour yet a diverse range of Asian cultures are represented.
The Festival has a broad cultural reach and includes theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts, food and design culture. Key South Australian and national cultural organisations, performing arts groups, and flagship companies are encouraged to participate - especially in community-based events.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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Jump
In an Australian exclusive meet an amazingly agile, madcap Korean family in an adrenaline-packed silent sitcom featuring Taekwondo, jaw-dropping flips, dazzling acrobatics, sword fights and wickedly observed kung-fu pastiches.
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Dialogue In Skin
Experience the exuberant and meditative beats of acclaimed Malaysian drum group, Hands Percussion. Through their magnificent Chinese drums the drummers articulate a story featuring the five elements - earth, water, metal, fire and wood.
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Shakespeare's Hamlet meets Korean Shamanism
The Yohangza Theatre Company faithfully recreates the tragedy and drama of Shakespeare's original Hamlet in contemporary Korean language.
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SangHawa (Eve) & Rantau Berbisik (Whisperings of Exile)
Nan Jombang Dance Company's performances are exquisite, singular and not to be missed. Witness their contemporary dance form that weaves together the physical, spiritual, the past and the present.
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The Dhol Foundation
The mighty Dhol Foundation opens the floodgates on a torrent of percussive grooves. Be elevated by high-powered, live Punjabi beats and turn the Festival Theatre into one big dance party!
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When His Watch Stopped
The Sadari Theatre Company uses masked performance, striking visual art, mime and imagery to tell the emotional tale of a newly married couple who are torn apart by war, and the feelings experienced when a loved one does not return.
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AFTERNOON absurdiTEA with Camellia Cha
Combining outrageous humour, divinely beautiful music and quirky poetry, this is afternoon tea like you have never experienced before.
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In Repose
From the maker of Chika (OzAsia Festival 2008) comes In Repose, an artistic homage to Japanese migrants who lived and died in Australia since the late 1800s and have become part of this landscape through burial.
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For more information, please visit ozasiafestival.com.au
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