Lauded choreographer Jenni Large brings her sinuously brutal vision to the company in a thrilling new commission.

Faraway sees fairytales mutate as it swallows audiences into the inky heart of our collective imaginations, dreams and nightmares. Creatures slither from a billowing terrain, tempting us as they tear apart our need for escapism, story and solace. 

A floral and fetishistic exorcism for the darkness that lurks around us.
Equal parts grim and glam, Faraway is a fantastical journey of the familiar – a nostalgic delusion that takes you to a far-off place that’s closer than you think.

Faraway as part of the 2026 Adelaide Festival. Step into the unknown from 25 February - 1 March.

Meet Jenni Large

Jenni is an independent dancer, teacher, and award-winning choreographer/director based in Kanamaluka/Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Driven by the personal, political, and transformative forces of embodiment, Jenni’s multi-limbed practice spans 15 years of dynamic experiences. As a dancer, she has performed extensively throughout metropolitan, regional and remote Australia as well as Europe, the UK, NZ, the Americas, Japan and Singapore with artists and companies including Dancenorth, Tasdance, Dance Nucleus, Legs On The Wall, GUTS Dance, SA Opera/Leigh Warren, Ashleigh Musk and Pat Toh Ling.

Heavily influenced by aesthetics and cinematic tropes, Jenni’s choreographic work is both flamboyant and restrained, thematically analysing patriarchal systems, celebrating women and exposing societal assumptions of stigmatised subjects. She has presented her work both as an independent artist and through commissions Australia wide at festivals and institutions, including; Mona Foma, Ten Days On The Island, Ohm Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Dancehouse, Carriage Works, Desert Festival, ADT: Raw, Sound + Fury, Sydney Dance Company (New Breed & PPY), WAAPA, Stompin, Australasian Dance Collective, The Arts Centre Melbourne with DanceX The Australian Ballet, Tasdance, Cont.act Festival and Vector 5 Dance Nucleus in Singapore.

In 2022, Jenni won the Keir Choreographic People’s Choice Award for her work ‘Wet Hard’, which she then extended into ‘Wet Hard Long’, premiering to much acclaim, receiving a Green Room nomination for Most Outstanding Visual Design. Jenni has also been honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship through Lucy Guerin Inc. and is one of ten artists showcasing a new durational performance installation piece ‘Body Shells’ for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s biennial exhibition, Hobart: Current across Summer of 2025-2026.