The Adelaide-based festival of Asia-Pacific culture has announced the line-up for its ten-year anniversary celebration.

OzAsia, the international festival of theatre, dance, music, film and visual arts from across the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to draw an audience of over 280,000 over its 12 days in late September. Held at the Adelaide Festival Centre, 2016’s offering will feature 35 Australian premieres across over a hundred professional performances. Performers will come from a diverse number of Asian countries including Japan, India, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia as well as the United Kingdom and Israel.

“2016 OzAsia Festival gives Australian audiences an insight into the vibrant contemporary arts scene from across Asia,” said OzAsia Festival Director Joseph Mitchell, “There is a generation 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.”

The opening weekend will include the Australian premiere of one of Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company’s performance of As If To Nothing, which captures the urgency and anxiety of modern day Hong Kong with an ensemble of 14 dancers, accompanied by live multimedia and sound in a moving set choreographed by...