Adelaide Festival kicks off with massive light and sound display, Blinc, at Elder Park
A massive light and installation display has drawn thousands of people to Elder Park on the first night of the Adelaide Festival.
Spectators gathered at the banks of the River Torrens to watch Blinc, which saw the area transformed into an outdoor digital art party.
The installation featured large projections and laser works, lighting up the Festival Centre and surrounds.
The festival's chief executive, Karen Bryant, said it had been created by some of the world's best digital artists.
"A lot of the sites have multiple artworks, so it's designed so people will hopefully come back again and again and see something different," Ms Bryant said.
"But of course it's also great to see before a show or after a show."
Blinc will continue to show every night of the festival, which will run for 17 days.
The Adelaide Festival will feature 150 performances across 42 events ranging from music and theatre to dance and visual arts.
Some of the top-billed acts of the festival include New York's Cedar Lake contemporary ballet and Danny Elfmann's music from the films of Tim Burton.
In his third year as artistic director David Sefton said attracting Cedar Lake to Adelaide was a big coup for the festival.
"They're a relatively young company who get to cherry-pick the best dancers and choreographers in the world so they're quite sought after but haven't travelled much," Mr Sefton said.
"This is their first, at this point only, Australian appearance, so I'm very happy about that."
More than 30 digital artworks from 28 international artists will also be displayed over a dozen locations across the city.
