OnSite Program

ADP is unique in its utilisation of site and multi-disciplinary art to create visually stunning and sonically immersive works. OnSite invites audiences to feel, see, hear and experience a sense of place, exploring urgent social, environmental or political ideas, providing a space to reflect and connect. It pushes the envelope of what a 'dance' performance can be.

Our OnSite creative development involves intensive research, relationship building and community engagement linked to the concepts, our partners and spaces. Our artistic team, advisors and collaborators work towards an in-progress showing with the full realisation showcased the following year.

Our donors contribute directly to our OnSite program.

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Photo by Martin Ollman

Culture Cruise (2023)

Photo by Olivia Wikner

Culture Cruise was an exclusive half-day art immersion - memorable and sensorial - connecting destinations and revealing stories here on the beautiful ancient lands of the Ngunnawal people, Canberra.

LESS (2022)

Photo By Lorna Sim

An illuminated outdoor dance and music performance on the evocative architectural public artwork, LESS. Designed by Chilean architects Pezo von Ellrichshausen, the uses of less are undefined. It is a place that conjures images of ancient and future civilisations, the sacred and spiritual, the duality of the rigid and organic.

Symbiosis (2021)

Photo by Lorna Sim

Symbiosis was an exclusive after-dark walking tour through the Australian National Botanic Gardens with illuminated live dance, music and spoken word. This unique sensory experience explored the volatility of the natural world in the age of the Anthropocene. 

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Lake March (2020)

Photo by Lorna Sim

‘Lake March’ was a spontaneous dance and music performance unfolding along the pathways of Lakes Burley Griffin, Ginninderra and Tuggeranong across two weekends in August 2020.

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From the Vault (2019)

Photo by Lorna Sim

In a secret warehouse, once an old storage bunker for valuable goods, from the vault unlocked a timely reflection on values; what is truly important today and why we choose to keep it safe.

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Energia (2018)

Photo by Lorna Sim

Set at Mount Majura Solar Farm, ENERGEIA surveyed the generation, use and waste of the energy around us. An immersive audience experience that looked closely at human energy transactions positioning the human at the centre of the renewable and non-renewable energy debate. Why are we energy hungry?

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Nervous (2016)

Photo by Lorna Sim

NERVOUS was a dance, light, music and science experience that parallels the neurological functions of our brain and the behaviours of our planet. Performed at the beautiful Mt. Stromlo Observatory.

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