AustLit

'Mes chers amis,

'Some things cannot be said with words. It’s be written on our bodies. Etched into our skin, our movements, our voices. There are these invisible restraints holding us in place. There’s a space beyond this moment, we know there is. A space beyond this instability, beyond this frustration. We must reconfigure power and embrace a transmission of old and new knowledge.

'This award-winning production from one Australia’s leading dance companies at the forefront of Intercultural work will move, exhilarate and challenge audiences.

'Inspired by the ongoing series of New Caledonia’s referendums on independence from France and Australia’s decades of debate over Indigenous recognition and treaty, Le Dernier Appel explores the aftermaths of colonisation, seeking what to embrace of the new and what to let fall. While governments debate, peoples born of invasion, migration and displacement, wait for the new day.'

Source: Black Swan Theatre company.

'Cut the Sky is a new dance theatre work that explores the relationship between humanity and the environment from an indigenous point of view at a time of global environmental change.' (Marrugeku website)

'Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from broken past to fragile present, and on to a future still in the making. Gudirr Gudirr calls a warning, the guwayi bird calls when the tide is turning — to miss the call is to drown. An intimate solo dance and video work performed by Dalisa Pigram, daughter of Broome. By turns hesitant, restless, resilient and angry, Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from a broken past through a fragile present and on to a future still in the making.' (Source: Marrugeku website)

'It's Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip hop meets Japanese love song. Closing time and the action moves to the streets, when a lone cowboy comes to town, stirring the town's ghosts and provoking a surreal collision of past and present.'

Source: Carriageworks website: http://www.carriageworks.com.au/

Sighted: 18/11/2009