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The Adelaide Festival Centre's 2010 Season is on sale all year. Buy four or more shows from the year-long selection of Theatre, Music & dance to save on all ticket prices.

Full Season 2010 program brochure download here.

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If you have any queries, please contact BASS on 131 246.

DANCE PACKAGE 1
	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.
	Frame and Circle A program of two inter-related works: Rubicon & Meridian with choreographers Prue Lang & Leigh Warren and the Leigh Warren Dancers
	The Silver Rose Based loosely on The Rose Cavalier, The SILVER ROSE is a ballet of romantic intrigue and love gone wrong. The Marschallin, a celebrated actress, is still very beautiful but fears her lover might fall for a younger woman. Inevitably he does.
	Bangarra Dance Theatre After an extraordinary 20th anniversary year in 2009 Bangarra Dance Theatre leaps into the next twenty years with a stunning new double-bill! Choreographed by Frances Rings and Daniel Riley McKinley, these two powerful stories will explore the diversity and evolution of both traditional and contemporary indigenous visual art forms.
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DANCE PACKAGE 2
	Pomona Road An Australian family rebuild their lives after their home is destroyed by bushfire. Pomona Road explores the universal story of family and investigates the experience of loss, hardship and the joy of recovery.
	Beauty Featuring five female dancers, Beauty investigates the notion of beauty and will explore Sir Francis Bacon's famous idea that there is 'no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion'.
	Ignition With a list of seemingly subversive questions, Australian Dance Theatre's Artistic Director Garry Stewart provides a forum for a group of emerging choreographers to disrupt expectations of what we think dance, theatre, movement, ability and talent are and remind us that art comes from heretical investigation.
	Bangarra Dance Theatre After an extraordinary 20th anniversary year in 2009 Bangarra Dance Theatre leaps into the next twenty years with a stunning new double-bill! Choreographed by Frances Rings and Daniel Riley McKinley, these two powerful stories will explore the diversity and evolution of both traditional and contemporary indigenous visual art forms.
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INSPACE PACKAGE
	Man Covets Bird A boy wakes to finds he has grown. He recognises the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town do not. Outside his childhood bedroom he finds a bird that cannot fly and together the strangers embark on adventures.
	Beauty Featuring five female dancers, Beauty investigates the notion of beauty and will explore Sir Francis Bacon's famous idea that there is 'no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion'.
	Superheroes All dressed in identical superman costumes, the occupants of a stifling rest home enter into a battle of opinions on philosophy, religion, capitalism, politics and war. Physically defeated but mentally up for the fight, a war is waged to determine how best to dominate and steer humanity into the next generation.
	Fugitive It's a world where all bets are off. Corruption, sleaze and violence pervade. When a young boy is brutally attacked, one guy and his crew take the law into their own hands seeking retribution and a new world order in the depths of a dark forest.
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THEATRE PACKAGE
	Codgers Eavesdrop on six senior Aussie men, some of them mates since war service, as they sweat it out together each week in a gym and are taken on inter-connected journeys that are challenging, touching and very funny.
	Fugitive It's a world where all bets are off. Corruption, sleaze and violence pervade. When a young boy is brutally attacked, one guy and his crew take the law into their own hands seeking retribution and a new world order in the depths of a dark forest.
	Hamlet One of Shakespeare's best known tragedies of revenge and intrigue is given a Korean twist. From the internationally acclaimed company that presented the fresh Korean interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2007, Yohangza Theatre Company is known for ingeniously weaving Shakespeare with Korean folklore.
	Blackbird Fifteen years ago Ray and Una had a relationship that ended suddenly. He was 40 and she was 12. They haven't seen each other since. Now, Ray has moved on with a new life and a fresh start but Una has thought of nothing else and sets out to find him with shattering consequences.
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THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE PACKAGE
	Béla Fleck's African Project Described as the premiere banjo player in the world multi Grammy Award winner Béla Fleck and his renowned ensemble the Flecktones have taken the banjo across the global musical map through collaborations with musical legends as diverse as Chick Corea, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Bonnie Rait and even the Grateful Dead.
	Codgers Eavesdrop on six senior Aussie men, some of them mates since war service, as they sweat it out together each week in a gym and are taken on inter-connected journeys that are challenging, touching and very funny.
	Bangarra Dance Theatre After an extraordinary 20th anniversary year in 2009 Bangarra Dance Theatre leaps into the next twenty years with a stunning new double-bill! Choreographed by Frances Rings and Daniel Riley McKinley, these two powerful stories will explore the diversity and evolution of both traditional and contemporary indigenous visual art forms.
	Hamlet One of Shakespeare's best known tragedies of revenge and intrigue is given a Korean twist. From the internationally acclaimed company that presented the fresh Korean interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2007, Yohangza Theatre Company is known for ingeniously weaving Shakespeare with Korean folklore.
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FAMILY PACKAGE
	Man Covets Bird A boy wakes to finds he has grown. He recognises the stranger in the mirror, but his parents, his town do not. Outside his childhood bedroom he finds a bird that cannot fly and together the strangers embark on adventures.
	The Gruffalo Whether their favourite food is roasted fox, owl ice cream, scrambled snake or Gruffalo crumble, audiences eat up this delectable tale about the adventures of a clever little mouse in a forest full of predators.
	Letter's End If your mind were a room and your life's memories lost in a jumble of old boxes, what forgotten treasures might you find? Enter a world where mops sneeze, storks swoop in bearing gifts, and crunchy apples are plucked from paintings on a wall.
	Christmas Proms Share the joy of the Christmas season with the sensational Adelaide Art Orchestra, the inspirational Adelaide Vocal Project and conductor Timothy Sexton plus some very special guests, as they perform festive favourites and carols for the young and young at heart.
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PREMIUM RESERVE NIGHTS
	Béla Fleck's African Project Described as the premiere banjo player in the world multi Grammy Award winner Béla Fleck and his renowned ensemble the Flecktones have taken the banjo across the global musical map through collaborations with musical legends as diverse as Chick Corea, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Bonnie Rait and even the Grateful Dead.
	Codgers Eavesdrop on six senior Aussie men, some of them mates since war service, as they sweat it out together each week in a gym and are taken on inter-connected journeys that are challenging, touching and very funny.
	Variety Gala You are invited to the star-studded highlight of the entertainment calendar, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival's Variety Gala Performance. This exclusive event will open the 10th Adelaide Cabaret Festival in spectacular style.
	Ennio Marchetto Ennio is the ultimate quick change artist, revolutionising the art of origami into theatrical magic. His screamingly funny and wildly entertaining solo performance features a whirlwind of superb paper costumes and split second transformations, backed by an eclectic soundtrack, Ennio uses his dynamic and physical comedy and ingenious costumes to magically morph into parodies of our favourite cultural icons.
	Brel One of Australia's most recognised and respected actors and singers, John Waters will perform a concert that highlights the songs of the great French Chanson singer-songwriter Jacques Brel.
	Bangarra Dance Theatre After an extraordinary 20th anniversary year in 2009 Bangarra Dance Theatre leaps into the next twenty years with a stunning new double-bill! Choreographed by Frances Rings and Daniel Riley McKinley, these two powerful stories will explore the diversity and evolution of both traditional and contemporary indigenous visual art forms.
	Musica Latina A rare double bill featuring two giants of the classical guitar world. Drawing on Latin influences, Musica Latina references the 'new world' in the guitar's evolution after The Americas were discovered and explores the departure from European traditions.
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