Joining the Youth Ensemble for this major production are established independent guest artists and emerging artists from Adelaide’s disability arts scene including invited guest performers from No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Tutti Inc and Company@.

This new work will premiere at The Old Queens Theatre 17 – 25 August 2012. For tickets telephone Restless on (08) 8212 8495 | VISA and Mastercard accepted

Learn more about the process by following the blog

Life in Movement has been made by Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason of Closer Productions. Restless has worked closely with Sophie and Bryan for the last seven years and in 2009 they teamed up with us to make the multi award winning Necessary Games films.

Life in Movement is another brilliant film from Closer Productions and Restless urges all of its supporters to go and see this heartfelt account of Tanja Liedtke’s fascinating energy and her highly original approach to dance.

Life in Movement will be screening at the Palace Nova, check their listings for session times. You’ll be sorry if you miss it!

The Company will present High Voltage a 15-min work directed by Youth Ensemble dancer with a disability and emerging director, Lorcan Hopper at the Moresby Arts Theatre 1pm, 3.30pm and 7pm on Wednesday 7th March 2012.

Adding to the performance, the company will screen the multi-award winning dance films, Necessary Games and facilitate dance workshops on the following day for the Cheshire Disability Services, St John’s and the Red Cross in Port Moresby.

Necessary Games is a collaboration with Closer Productions which has won awards at the Adelaide Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, ATOM Awards, Picture this… film festival (Calgary), Brooklyn International Film Festival (New York), and the ReelDance Australia & New Zealand Awards.

Lorcan Hopper’s ‘High Voltage’ offers up some terrific plays on how electric power and technology works and passes on, and through, all. The very nature of power as a connecting force absolutely ensures choreography making use of physical and other means of connecting dancers and objects is central, something Hopper achieves without over hyped clichés. It’s huge fun in a ‘pass the parcel’ way as Hopper’s dancers explore magnetism, electric currents and wind power with some hilarious results. Most effective was the playful way a paper airplane and a torch managed to symbolise so much industry and power. The pace of the piece is fast and furious with a terrific Keystone Cops comic edge to it.

David O’Brien, dB Magazine 2011

This tour is made possible through additional sponsorship from AusAID and private donations.

Inspired by the dancer’s continual need to adapt to their external environment, their physical mutations and their constantly enquiring minds, this new work for the Touring Company taps into a gold mine of diverse and instinctual choices made within the performers unique physical ability.

Set to premiere in 2013, Second Nature looks into what we too eagerly deem as foreign without investigating the possibility that perhaps it is ourselves who are foreign, different, other, odd or strange. It is all a matter of circumstance, position, perception and environment.

A studio showing of this work in progress for APAM delegates is scheduled for 1 – 2pm Monday 27 February and 5 – 6pm Thursday 1 March 2012.

To follow the blog link from the first stage development in 2011 at Bundanon click here.

Featuring in the February / March 2012 issue of the Dance Australia magazine, South Australian dance critic, Alan Brissenden mentions Restless Dance Theatre (Adelaide) as the ‘Most interesting Australian group or artist’.

For more of Alan’s choices for 2011, go to link

A member of the Youth Ensemble, the Education Team and a regular presenter (emerging director) of Restless’ DEBUT Program, Lorcan is one of 75 young and emerging artists selected – the largest ever intake into an Australian artist mentoring program designed to advance their careers and make their mark on the Australian arts industry.

Over the next ten months, he will work with Peter Sheedy from the Adelaide College of the Arts to devise a unique program of integrated participation with other young dancers. Lorcan will join contemporary dance technique and composition/choreography classes at the College and will be supported by a personal assistant (PA) throughout his program who will assist in his learning and help create a video of his JUMP experience.

To follow Lorcan’s project and for program updates throughout 2012, visit the JUMP Mentoring website.