Exit interview: Adelaide Wood, Tracks Dance Company

Adelaide Wood has moved on to new challenges after five years in Darwin with Tracks Dance. Here, she reflects on her time with the company and the challenges and delights of making work in the NT.

13 Dec 2022 9:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Adelaide Wood is moving on from Tracks Dance Company after five years. Photo: Charlie Bliss.

‘Tracks is probably one of the best companies I’ve ever worked with. They are really phenomenal,’ says Adelaide Wood, the outgoing Company Director of Darwin’s Tracks Dance Company.

Given her obvious respect for the company, why is Wood leaving after five years in order to pursue a number of self-directed international residencies?

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts