Spotlight Program (excerpted showcase)
Back to Back Theatre - "Small Metal Objects"
Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre - "Black Swan of Trespass"
Lucy Guerin Inc - "Aether"
MTC - "The Sapphires"
Chunky Move - "I Want to Dance Better at Parties"
Dislocate - "Growing Up"
Uncle Semolina & Friends - "Gilgamesh"

Pitch presentation of new work
BalletLab - "Origami"

Adelaide Fringe (Full-length income generating seasons branded as APAM Spotlights)
Stuart Orr - "Telefunken"
Eddie Perfect - "Drink Pepsi Bitch"
Sista She - "Inna Thigh"
The Candy Butchers - " A Circus Sweetmeat"
Theatre in Decay - "Empire"
Finucane & Smith - "The Burlesque Hour"

APAM is a crucial platform for Australian artists and companies wanting to take their shows around the world.
Australia Council CEO, Jennifer Bott said ‘International touring opportunities are growing rapidly, particularly for small to medium performing arts companies. The key is to ensure international presenters experience a diversity of work firsthand, and develop strong relationships with artists and companies - APAM provides the perfect environment for this to happen’.

Fresh from their recent Melbourne International Arts Festival success, Chunky Move’s (Vic) I Want to Dance Better at Parties and Back to Back Theatre’s (Vic) small metal objects will feature at the Market. After its sell out season, staged in the main thoroughfare of Melbourne’s Flinders Station, Back to Back will take its production to Adelaide Railway Station.

Back to Back’s general manager, Alice Nash said the company was delighted to re-stage the work in Adelaide to a broad array of international presenters. ‘APAM will help us build on the interest generated by the Melbourne Festival, by introducing small metal objects to a wider international audience that we would otherwise never reach,’ she said.

Robina Burton, general manager of ChamberMade (Vic) experienced the benefits of APAM’s international reach in 2004. After showcasing Phobia, invitations to tour nationally and across Europe were locked in for 2005, with more to come in 2006. The company also secured a US agent.

‘After our Phobia Spotlight appearance, I rushed back to the exhibition booth and found people already waiting to know more about the production and book the show. I spent three days in back-to-back meetings, fielding an enormous range of interest from presenters all over the world,’ said Ms Burton.

‘What’s exciting about APAM in Adelaide is that we host this international event during our biennial festival of arts, one of the world’s leading arts and cultural festivals and the Adelaide Fringe, the largest Fringe event in the country,’ says Greg Mackie, executive director, Arts SA.

‘It’s an amazing time for participants not only to see the best performing arts represented at the Market, but to attend festival events and experience the best on offer from around the world, including performances, exhibitions, new films and our world renowned Writers’ Week. It’s a time when the entire city is buzzing with energy. We are proud to be hosting APAM for the fifth time,’ he added.

APAM attracts some of the world's leading festival programmers. International delegates at the 2004 APAM included Julia Carruthers from London's Royal Festival Hall, Linda Shelton from New York’s Joyce Theater, Itzik Becher – head of Aviv Productions (one of the leading North American agencies), Helen Cole from the UK’s Arnolfini and Stella Hall from Newcastle Festival in the UK.

The Australia Council for the Arts established the biennial event in 1994 to increase international and national touring opportunities for Australian performing arts. Since then more than 60 Australian companies have undertaken around 150 tours to 1200 venues, generating around $30 million in revenue, as a direct result of APAM.
APAM will be held at the Adelaide Festival Centre from 27 February – 3 March 2006. APAM is an initiative of the Australia Council for the Arts and is presented in partnership with the South Australian Government (through Arts SA), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Bank 2006 Festival of Arts and Adelaide Fringe.

For media enquiries please contact: Dianne Lavender, Communication Officer, Australia Council for the Arts, tel:02 9215 9071, email: d.lavender@ozco.gov.au

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