Current works
BalletLab works demonstrate diverse creative ideas that are conceptually rigorous and experimental, often profound yet highly entertaining. The works are inquisitive, exuberantly idiosyncratic and often a fascinating hybrid of mediums. Our works - past, present and future - offer an experience that goes beyond the traditional realm of dance and performance making. Our philosophy in dance encompasses a cross-disciplinary sensibility in movement, choreography and the construction of narrative. We produce our creations between residency partnerships, museums, festivals and commissions. Each project reveals the importance of dialogue between director and dancers in the collaborative process, utilising very open and experimental methodologies.
And All Things Return To Nature Tomorrow
A new double bill from Phillip Adams BalletLab, And All Things Return To Nature Tomorrow, presents the works of choreographers Phillip Adams and Brooke Stamp. The two distinct works traverse performance and installation to explore utopian impluses, vibrational energy, abduction, and meditative and transformational concepts. Using surround sound, design and choreography the double bill will provide audiences with a participartory, immersive, embodied and disembodied experience. Learn more...
Aviary
"It's massively brave dance making" - John Bailey (Capital Idea, blog)
In this latest work from dance maverick Adams, the cage is awash with life. Aviary is a soaring treatise on the impulse toward spectacle and display, a flamboyant dance performance of exotic birdlife and uncommon adornment. Learn more...
Trilogy
Especially commissioned for MONA FOMA, The Trilogy is a riveting presentation of works from award-winning choreographer Phillip Adams that span over ten years of BalletLab; Amplification (premiered in 1999), Miracle (2009) and in 2011, the premiere a brand new third work, Above. Learn more...
Amplification
"A deeply chilling experience." - Jonathan Marshall, Inpress
Amplification is a portrait of the body in chaos. Using the car accident as a metaphor for mental/physical disassociation, Amplification examines the thresholds of the human body's response to sound, light and physical impact. Learn more...
Miracle
"It was a vast and brilliant work." - Guerilla Semiotics
Miracle takes up contemporary concerns about religious radicalism and uses revolutionary evangelist groups from the 1960s and 70s to explore the dynamics of group behaviour, rapture and the desire to achieve an alternate, transcendent state of being through religion. Learn more...
Above / Lamb
Above is an ebb and flow of transitional stages resulting in rebirth. Like a fairytale in the guise of a road move, Above tells of primal initiation rites, dreams of immortality and magical incarnations. Learn more...
Brindabella
"A wildly original and startlingly successful masterpiece." - Jessica Thompson, Dance Australia
Brindabella is a baroque fantasia - a spiritual and strange underworld of forest inhabitants adapted from the French folktale Jean Cocteau's La Belle et le Bête. Brindabella re-imagines this narrative across both genre and period. Learn more...
