SILENCE
Thu
15
Thu Sep 15 7:30 PM
Pilbeam Theatre
Allocated Seating
12+
60 Mins September
SILENCE is a powerful contemporary dance performance featuring seven performers on a minimalist set with evocative lighting. The complex musical score, punctuated by dynamic live percussion, explores past, present, alternate realities and dreamscapes. The entire stage is slowly engulfed in dirt, representing the worldwide call for the return of Indigenous lands. SILENCE breaks the silence.
SILENCE is about a treaty conversation, perhaps best put by its creators, Karul Projects:
SILENCE is about the space in between. The conversations not being heard and the responses that are muted. Through the beating of a drum, bodies thrash through frequencies to uncover what lies in the SILENCE.
There’s SILENCE between the stars as the Emu travels across the night sky. There’s SILENCE in the dancer’s energy when they hit the cut, the rupture between rhythms and movement enabling a vibrational glitch where the spirit world can enter. It’s also the deafening SILENCE under white noise. The same questions echoed through generations.
We have marched across Country. We have had promises made and promises broken. In SILENCE we pull the unresolved conversations from under the rug and slam them back on the table. Because the conversation about a TREATY will never be silenced,
Age Suitability: 12+
Warnings: Water based haze and strobe lighting will be used in this performance.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are advised that this show contains depictions of people who have died.
SILENCE is about a treaty conversation, perhaps best put by its creators, Karul Projects:
SILENCE is about the space in between. The conversations not being heard and the responses that are muted. Through the beating of a drum, bodies thrash through frequencies to uncover what lies in the SILENCE.
There’s SILENCE between the stars as the Emu travels across the night sky. There’s SILENCE in the dancer’s energy when they hit the cut, the rupture between rhythms and movement enabling a vibrational glitch where the spirit world can enter. It’s also the deafening SILENCE under white noise. The same questions echoed through generations.
We have marched across Country. We have had promises made and promises broken. In SILENCE we pull the unresolved conversations from under the rug and slam them back on the table. Because the conversation about a TREATY will never be silenced,
Age Suitability: 12+
Warnings: Water based haze and strobe lighting will be used in this performance.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are advised that this show contains depictions of people who have died.
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