Australian Dance Theatre - Devolution Promo

Garry Stewart has built a reputation for pushing dance beyond convention into new realms. In Devolution Garry Stewart collaborated with Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Louis-Philippe Demers, UK video artist Gina Czarnecki and London based costume designer Georg Meyer-Wiel to create an unique world the likes of which Australian theatre has never produced before. Situating humans in communion with multiple robotic machines of both large and medium scale, a large scale robotic, kinetic set and lighting design, a multitude of robotic prostheses and ambulating robotic constructs as well as extraordinary video art, Devolution redefines the relationship between machine and body.

Filled with symbolism and ritualised process Devolution highlights that for all of our technology we are still primitive, of the flesh and live as instinctive biological beings.

Devolution won the Helpmann Awards Best New Australian Work and Best Lighting in 2006.

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• Australian Dance Theatre
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• Garry Stewart
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