ADT's PROXIMITY Wins Australian Dance Award

As Australian Dance Theatre's Melbourne season of Proximity approaches, leading performer Kimball Wong has receiced the Australian Dance Award for Most Oustanding Performance by a Male Dancer. After a ten year absense, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) returns to Arts Centre Melbourne next Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 August.

Announced last night from the Canberra Theatre Centre, the Australian Dance Awards recognise and honour professional Australian dance artists who have made an outstanding contribution to Australian dance. For his for in Proximity, Kimball Wong received the top award for demonstrating "extraordinary power, elevation and fluidity and for his accomplished, stunning dancing that often seems to defy science".

Combining art and technology, Proximity is a masterful demonstration in dance, videography and optical illusions. Throughout the performance, nine phenomenal dancers, including Wong, train video cameras on each other to capture, magnify and distort the choreography on large screens upstage. The result is a breathtaking, real-time video panorama that liberates the body from everyday understanding and physics.

Formed in Adelaide in 1965, ADT is one of Australia's foremost dance companies and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2015. Constantly in demand both in Australia and internationally, ADT is one of Australia's most active touring dance companies. In 2013 alone, ADT will have toured two simultaneous productions to over 25 cities across the globe.

Under the artistic direction of Garry Stewart since 1999, the company has embarked on a distinctive artistic trajectory, often exploring collisions of arts and science, that has won the company numerous accolades and critical acclaim. Alongside Proximity, ADT's technological oeuvre includes the spectacular Devolution, which was created in collaboration with French-Canadian roboticist Louis-Philippe Demers, and Held, which saw photographer Lois Greenfield onstage snapping real-time photographs of the performance.