Works Available for Touring
Our works - past, present and future - offer an experience that goes beyond the traditional realm of dance and performance making, and stimulate and engage audiences. These are original works that are proudly made in Melbourne for a global market.
After
AFTER - an immersive performance encounter for one person at a time.
Kingdom
Kingdom is a collaborative work commissioned by Phillip Adams BalletLab from an ensemble of influential, inspiring, Australian choreographers - Matthew Day, Luke George, Rennie McDougall and Phillip Adams, coming together to articulate how their individual and collective desires intersect with art, life and sexuality. Learn More...
Thumb
Thumb is a work across the gigantic and the miniature, inspired by movies and literature from the 1960s and early 1970s. Working with hypnosis to explore the individual's physical and psychological reaction to scale, drawing on cinematic, mythical and visual interpretations. Learn more...
And All Things Return To Nature Tomorrow
A new double bill from Phillip Adams BalletLab, And All Things Return To Nature Tomorrow, presents the works of choreographers Phillip Adams and Brooke Stamp. The two distinct works traverse performance and installation to explore utopian impluses, vibrational energy, abduction, and meditative and transformational concepts. Using surround sound, design and choreography the double bill will provide audiences with a participartory, immersive, embodied and disembodied experience. Learn more...
Aviary
"It's massively brave dance making" - John Bailey (Capital Idea, blog)
In this latest work from dance maverick Adams, the cage is awash with life. Aviary is a soaring treatise on the impulse toward spectacle and display, a flamboyant dance performance of exotic birdlife and uncommon adornment. Learn more...
Trilogy
Especially commissioned for MONA FOMA, The Trilogy is a riveting presentation of works from award-winning choreographer Phillip Adams that span over ten years of BalletLab; Amplification (premiered in 1999), Miracle (2009) and in 2011, the premiere a brand new third work, Above. Learn more...
Amplification
"A deeply chilling experience." - Jonathan Marshall, Inpress
Amplification is a portrait of the body in chaos. Using the car accident as a metaphor for mental/physical disassociation, Amplification examines the thresholds of the human body's response to sound, light and physical impact. Learn more...
Miracle
"It was a vast and brilliant work." - Guerilla Semiotics
Miracle takes up contemporary concerns about religious radicalism and uses revolutionary evangelist groups from the 1960s and 70s to explore the dynamics of group behaviour, rapture and the desire to achieve an alternate, transcendent state of being through religion. Learn more...
