Excerpts of performances by leading contemporary performing artists and companies, alongside a number of full-length Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts productions, designed to give an exciting overview of the performing arts in Australasia.
NB. The Spotlight program is subject to change.

Applications for the Spotlight program closed 19 August 2005, click here to see archived application criteria and forms

Click here to visit the Daily Schedule page.

Circus, Physical Theatre

Acrobat, Featuring Guest Artist Mozes - Acrobat
The Candy Butchers - A Circus Sweetmeat - The Candy Butchers

Contemporary Music

Bloodstream - Australian Art Orchestra
Emma Donovan Band -
FourPlay String Quartet -
Music For The Eyes - CODA Collective
Stiff Gins -

Dance, Dance Theatre

Aether - Lucy Guerin Inc
Already Elsewhere - Force Majeure
BLUE LOVE - Shaun Parker
Devolution - Australian Dance Theatre
Divine Harmonies - Tasdance
I Want To Dance Better At Parties - Chunky Move
Inasmuch - Jason Pitt
Origami - BalletLab
Paradise City - Branch Nebula
PreTender - Buzz Dance Theatre

Musical Satire And Comedy

Drink Pepsi, Bitch - Eddie Perfect
Heard It On The Wireless - The Kransky Sisters

Outdoor

Growing Up - Dislocate

Theatre, Cross Artform Theatre 

Burning Daylight - Stalker Theatre Company
Empire - Theatre In Decay
Fearless N - Theatre Kantanka
Frangipani Perfume - Makerita Urale
Gilgamesh - Uncle Semolina (& Friends)
Gondwana - ERTH Visual & Physical Theatre
Honk If You Are Jesus - State Theatre Company Of South Australia
INNER THIGH, THE SISTA SHE STORY - SISTA SHE
Krishnan's Dairy - Indian Ink Theatre Company
Lontano Blu (A Distant Blu/Un Azul Distante) - Para//elo
Mae West's Stiffs - Stephen Sewell & Martha Lott
NERRPU Dhawu Rrurrambuwuy (The Story Of George Rrurrambu) - @PRODUCTION
Page 8 - Company B
Sharon, Keep Ya Hair On! - Patch Theatre Company
Small Metal Objects - Back To Back Theatre
Telefunken - Malthouse Theatre
The Black Swan Of Trespass - Stuck Pigs Squealing
The Burlesque Hour: A Salon Of Live Ladies - Finucane & Smith
The Last Days Of Mankind - Circus Elysium
The Sapphires - Melbourne Theatre Company
Three Furies: Scenes From The Life Of Francis Bacon - Performing Lines
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Windmill Performing Arts
Windmill Baby - Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation