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Baleen Moondjan and Guuranda | Adelaide Festival 2024
In the aftermath of the Voice debacle, it is more than ever significant that this year’s Adelaide Festival has begun with two contemporary Indigenous ceremonies, both commissioned by the Festival itself, Baleen Moondjan and Guuranda. Both pieces are constructed from stories handed down by some of the oldest elders of their respective traditions, stories which might well have been entirely lost had these pieces not been composed.
A letter to … the HIV that is in my bloodstream Original
Dear HIV, I’ve been living with you since 1998 – that’s 24 years now. In many ways, you have radically changed me. But funnily enough, in many other ways you have not. These days, you are only one aspect of my identity, of which there are many parts: I’m a fair-skinned, Aboriginal gay man who hails from Nganarunga and Kaurna country in south Australia with Scottish and Finnish heritage. I’m a ‘westie’ – I grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Arts Admin isn't just about administration... it's about culture
Indigenous performing arts is a testament to collective drive and vision If the recent skirmish over federal arts funding teaches us anything, it’s that even the best-laid plans are not set in stone. With a change of government or the swearing in of a new minister, an entire ecology can be swiftly placed in a precarious position. If the foundations are unstable, it can all come tumbling down.
Attention Colonisers: we have a few questions...
For COOKED a group of young Indigenous people (aged from six years to 27 years old) posed questions to the settlers/colonisers and newcomers of so-called Australia via a website where mob could submit anonymous answers and also ask questions of us. We then turned that into a show. And what a journey it has been.
Arts Admin isn't just about administration... it's about cultrue
Indigenous performing arts is a testament to collective drive and vision If the recent skirmish over federal arts funding teaches us anything, it’s that even the best-laid plans are not set in stone. With a change of government or the swearing in of a new minister, an entire ecology can be swiftly placed in a precarious position. If the foundations are unstable, it can all come tumbling down.
Theatre legend Jack Charles
Content warning: this piece contains the names of Aboriginal people who are deceased. “I have no problems being a gay and old arty bloke, because I’ve been a gay and young arty bloke for many years and everyone’s accepted it,” says Uncle Jack Charles. But back in the 1950s and ’60s, being gay was a problem. “In those days, you had to keep it dark because it was illegal,” says Charles.
BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR
$15.00 PDF download add to cart read extractcopy licensingproduction rights Read the full script online, with an AustralianPlays.org subscription preview full script A RED DOOR PUBLICATION We hold memories in our blood. It connects us. It defines us. Blood on the Dance Floor explores the legacies and memories of our bloodlines, our need for community, and what blood means to each of us – questioning how this most precious fluid unites and divides us.
Where We Stand: trauma or ritual? » Witness Performance
Isabella Whawai Waru’s Where We Stand, presented by Dancehouse, is the full-length redevelopment of Mason’s earlier work of the same title, which raises urgent interrogations around matters of colonialism, discrimination and privilege. The program notes describe it as performance ritual where the performers share their worlds, stories, rituals and lessons.
Cracked: A joyous insight into a harsh world » Witness Performance
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s new work Cracked, by Barbara Hostalek, presents a powerful story about a bungling and racist bureaucracy. As members of the Aboriginal community, we know this story only too well. The content is bleak, but the characters inhabiting this world are full of life’s joys, hopes and contradictions. Frankie (Bobbi Henry) has landed herself a stint in the clink, which has forced her kids to be placed in foster care.
Dance Massive: CO_EX-EN » Witness Performance
CO_EX_EN is the latest offering from emerging choreographer Thomas E S Kelly, under the banner of Karul Projects. A fledging performing arts company founded by Kelly in 2017, Karul Projects tells new stories of Indigenous knowledge, led by new Indigenous voices. A graduate of NAISDA College of Dance in 2012, Kelly is a Bundjalung lad from New South Wales with an impressive list of accomplishments and credits under his belt as a young emerging voice in contemporary dance.
Dance Massive: Glory » Witness Performance
Phillip Adams, the artistic director of Phillip Adams BalletLab, is known for his exquisite contemporary re-mastering of balletic dance with a signature tongue-in-cheek irreverence, delivered with a healthy dose of shock and awe that leaves you feeling like you’ve been turkey slapped. PABL’s latest offering is Glory, presented in celebration of the company’s 20th anniversary. It delivers exactly what what we’ve come to expect from Phillip Adams.
Dance Massive: Same but Different » Witness Performance
As a form, Indigenous contemporary dance is relatively young. Sadly, the last four decades of Indigenous contribution to contemporary dance is scantily documented and largely unknown outside of Blackfella circles. Its beginnings were humble.
Dance Massive: The Difficult Comedown » Witness Performance
Disclaimer: the following may be tainted by the pungent smell of feet. Ripe, toe-jammy, blue-cheese-encrusted feet. The audience is chaperoned down a red carpet-lined hallway, arriving at the entrance of a makeshift theatre within the giant hall of the Meat Market. We are told to remove our shoes. “Oh crap, what socks am I wearing?” I search through the day, back to when I first dressed in the morning, and give myself the all clear. We park our shoes and enter the theatre.
OMG. Hilarious. Propaganda Barbie (Kellyanne Conway doll)
with reservations... we have to be careful to avoid sexism when dealing with Kellyann. She's smart, and, while the depiction is accurate, she will know where the weak points are. This is how she functions effectively as the voice of the "Ministry of Truth."
Celebrate Banned Books Week by Kirsten Berg
Celebrate Banned Books Week (www.bannedbooksweek.org/) September 25?October 2 Jacob Boehme (1575?1624) isn't an author who immediately comes to mind when discussing banned or prohibited books. Known somewhat fondly as "the presumptuous shoemaker," he was a business owner and family man in the town of Gorlitz, Germany. He was also a Christian mystic.
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