Winter dance at Carriageworks
Sydney's multi-arts venue Carriageworks has announced its winter dance season. Headlining the program are new works by NAISDA college and resident company Force Majeure.
NAISDA, Australia's leading training organisation for First Nations dancers, will present ATI: A Dance Reckoning Of Truth, Place and Belonging. "The performance is a powerful declaration of survival and belonging shared through cultural and contemporary First Nations dance stories, vibrant projections and an emotionally charged soundscape of song and live voices." (July 21-22).
Directed by celebrated choreographer and NAISDA's Head of Dance Deon Hastie, ATI voices the First Nations experience performed by Australia’s next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance artists.
In August, Force Majeure will present idk, "a mesmerising blend of movement and story examining the private and public territories of the body and the nuances of navigating the multiple dimensions of consent that we encounter throughout our lifetimes". Directed by Force Majeure’s Artistic Director and CEO Danielle Micich, and inspired by her work as an intimacy director including on the Stan original series Bump, idk encourages "exploration of the unsure and unspoken in human interaction".
The performance features three bodies on stage interweaving movement and dialogue, while video cameras offer a curious different perspective and put the complexities of consent under the microscope. The work invites audiences "to discover the edges of their own boundaries and provokes a new way to continue the conversation about consent".
In addition to these premieres is an accompanying public program called Carriageworks Nights. First up is Move (June 9), featuring Riddim Nation dancers responding to the architecture of Carriageworks.
On July 14 and 15 resident company Marrugeku will present a symposium called Dance and Cultural Dramaturgies on Contested Land. The symposium will share the outcomes of two previous dance research laboratories curated and facilitated by Marrugeku’s Co-artistic Directors, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain. The two days will include performance excerpts and panel discussions and feature guest artists from the lab including dancer, choreographer, curator and scholar Mique’l Dangeli of the Tsimshian Nation of Metlakatla, Alaska, and choreographer Radouan Mrigiza, of the Amazigh Peoples of Northern Africa.
From July 22, Jannawi Dance Clan will present weekly cultural dance classes for children aged four to nine.
The full program will be announced at the end of June.
For details, go here.