Helpmann Academy and Adelaide Festival are excited to offer an exclusive contemporary dance Masterclass for students and graduates with Hofesh Shechter Company, complementing the presentation of their Theatre of Dreams season for Adelaide Festival this March.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to work with the highly acclaimed ensemble of international professional dancers from Hofesh Shechter Company learning a choreographed sequence from the Theatre of Dreams production presented at Adelaide Festival.
“Set to Hofesh Shechter’s own trademark cinematic composition, Theatre of Dreams takes a plunge into the subconscious exposing the fear and desires that elate us.” Adelaide Festival
Hofesh Schecter Company values are: Creativity, Diversity and Dynamism. They believe that dance has the ability to prod and poke and tap into our deepest emotions; an instinctive, deep-rooted part of ourselves that we rarely access in modern life.
“We dance to know what it feels like, not just to live, but to be alive. In all our work, we strive to move ourselves, and our audiences, beyond reason.” Hofesh Shechter Company
Masterclass numbers are very limited. Book early to secure your spot!
KEY INFORMATION
WHEN: Saturday 14 March 2026, 11.30am – 1.30pm
WHERE: Rehearsal Studio, Level 3, Room 3.41, Adelaide College of the Arts, 39 Light Square, Kaurna Yarta
WHO: Final year AC Arts students and eligible Helpmann graduates with dance/physical theatre experience
CAPACITY: Very limited; first in best dressed!
COST: Free for AC Arts students | $20 for eligible Helpmann graduates
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Presented in partnership with Adelaide Festival and Flinders University; masterclasses for tertiary students/professional artists are made possible by the generous support of the Nunn Dimos Foundation and Foskett Foundation, and delivered by Helpmann Academy.
ABOUT HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY
Hofesh Shechter Company is a boundary-breaking dance company that produces exceptional work created by Artistic Director Hofesh Shechter OBE, with, at its core, an extraordinary company of internationally diverse dancers.
Founded in 2008, the UK company’s repertoire includes Uprising (2006), In your rooms (2007), The Art of Not Looking Back (2009), Political Mother (2010), Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut (2011), Sun (2013), barbarians (2015), Grand Finale (2017), Double Murder (2021) and Theatre of Dreams (2024) with SHOW (2018), POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED (2020), Contemporary Dance 2.0 (2022), From England with Love (2024) performed by Shechter II, its young company. Hofesh Shechter Company has played in cities around the world including Paris, New York, Melbourne, Tokyo, Berlin, Montreal Rome, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro and many more.
The company collaborates on exceptional, world-leading, large-scale stage and film projects including a revival of Hofesh’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at La Scala, Milan (2018), co-directed with John Fulljames; East Wall (2018) at Tower of London, in partnership with East London Dance, Historic Royal Palaces and LIFT; LIGHT: Bach dances (2021) winner of the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020, produced in collaboration with Royal Danish Opera; Oedipus a production with the Old Vic, London; short films – Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns (2018), broadcast on the BBC, POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut (2021) and Return (2023); feature film – En Corps (2022).
Hofesh Shechter Company is Associate Company of the Brighton Dome, is supported with public funding through Arts Council England and benefits from the support of BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of its projects.
For more information please visit Hofesh Shechter Company website.
Images: Photo credit Jimmy Parratt. Supplied by Adelaide Festival.