Adelaide Festival 2024: a moving marriage of local and international works - with Indigenous voices front and centre.

The Adelaide Festival, founded in 1960, continues to offer a curated program of international and domestic works, despite challenges such as COVID and changing audience tastes. This year's festival, curated by Ruth Mackenzie, prominently featured Indigenous Australian work and showcased offerings from smaller companies. Standout performances included Stephen Page's Baleen Moondjan, Jacob Boehme's Guuranda, and the Australian Dance Theatre's Marrow. The festival also included international works by directors such as Barry Kosky, Robert Lepage, and Akram Khan. Overall, the festival fulfilled a vision for an international yet local festival that features new Indigenous Australian work. [Extracted from the article]