MASS MOVEMENT
“A thousand dancers descend on Adelaide in kinetic, collective, joyous celebration”
Adelaide Festival’s opening weekend saw a one-moment-in-time dusk ‘happening’, as a mass of 1,000 dancers converged onto the natural amphitheatre of Elder Park for MASS MOVEMENT.
This thrillingly conceived work from one of Australia’s foremost choreographers, Stephanie Lake, is on a scale never before seen at Adelaide Festival, with dancers from every age group and genre coming together in a celebration of synchronised mass-movement.
Stephanie Lake has a track record of creating large-scale contemporary dance works including Circle Electric (2024) and Colossus (2018) both for 50 dancers and 2020’s Multiply for 400 participants. MASS MOVEMENT ratchets up the ante to dizzying new heights with 1,000 professional and volunteer artists performing her exhilarating choreography.
Internationally recognised composer and audiovisual artist Robin Fox provides the original score for this monumental event that pays homage to the power of the collective and the unbridled joy of dance.
Program Note: Adelaide Festival
“An absolutely incredible experience for people of all generations and abilities to come together and share a passion for dance, led by a true artistic genius. Thank you for creating an event my students will always remember. It was truly a powerful and unforgettable event.”
- Participant
"Thank you for MASS MOVEMENT. It has been an incredible gift. It brought together our community and created joy and awe for so many. It has been 27 years since I braved a dance class, let alone a performance. Thank you for making something so utterly human and simultaneously full of wonder and hope and joy. It was a true celebration we will not forget."
- Participant