Baleen Moondjan

Dates: 28 February – 2 March
Location: Glenelg Beach

The 2024 Adelaide Festival opens with the world premiere of Baleen Moondjan, a contemporary ceremony from creative visionary Stephen Page in his first major commission since leaving Bangarra Dance Theatre.

Over four nights at sunset, set amongst giant whale bones on the sandy shores of Glenelg, Baleen Moondjan tells the story of a proud Elder, a curious granddaughter and the day a baleen whale comes close to shore.

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Jungle Book reimagined

Dates: 15 - 16 March
Location: Festival Theatre

This beautifully compelling new work from one of the world's most celebrated dance theatre companies takes Rudyard Kipling's much-loved story and reimagines Mowgli's epic journey through the eyes of a young climate refugee. Jungle Book reimagined is a deeply personal production that will speak to all generations.

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Time Machine

Dates: 14 – 17 March
Location: Her Majesty’s Theatre

Elizabeth Streb takes choreography beyond dance to defy gravity and pushes the human body to its limits. Using prototypic ‘Action Machines’ that move with and against them, her dancers become ‘Action Heroes’ who thrill, scare and delight their audiences.

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Guuranda

Dates: 29 February – 3 March
Location: Her Majesty’s Theatre

Effortlessly weaving together theatre, song, puppetry, dance and visual art, Guuranda shares stories that offer insight and balance, in a monumental new work telling the Narungga Creation stories of South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula by Jacob Boehme.

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Antigone in the Amazon

Dates: 15 – 17 March
Location: Dunstan Playhouse

Award-winning Swiss theatre director Milo Rau returns to Adelaide Festival in 2024 after making his incredible Australian debut with La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre in 2019. In his latest piece, he creates a political Antigone for the 21st century, working together with Brazilian and European actors, musicians and indigenous activists.

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Goldner String Quartet: The 2020s

Dates: Saturday 16 March
Location: Adelaide Town Hall

The great Goldner String Quartet brings three concerts to Adelaide Festival as part of their 30th and final season, culminating in this wonderful finale at the Adelaide Town Hall. With a program of great works from the 2020s, this concert celebrates the Quartet's exceptional musicianship and tremendous contribution to Australian music.

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