A bold, risk-taking and genre-breaking selection that challenges preconceptions of Asian culture.

With 270 artists, across 41 events, including five world premieres and 15 Australian premieres, during 90 performances, eight exhibitions and 15 film screenings, the 2015 OzAsia Festival, hosted at the Adelaide Festival Centre, will offer a cutting edge programme of theatre, dance, music, film and visual arts that challenge the traditional stereotypes of Asian culture. Over the course of the 11 day festival more than 100,000 people are expected to swarm to Adelaide’s Riverbank precinct for the celebration of 21st-Century Asian art.

For this year’s selection, new OzAsia Festival Director Joseph Mitchell has brought together a collection of “young, bold, risk-taking artists who are creating genre-blurring performances that celebrate the immediacy and fast-paced culture of Asia in the 21st Century.” One major focus of 2015’s programme will be work from Indonesia, including Teater Garasi’s pioneering immersive production The Streets. The Space Theatre will be transformed to look and feel like a busy Indonesian Street in Jakarta, with the audience in the thick of the action as the peformance unfolds.

Another not-to-be-missed experience will be on offer from Japanese pop culture radical Miss Revolutionary Idol Berskerker’s high-octane hybrid performance. Part...