“The most artistically, conceptually, politically and socially ambitious work being made in Australia today.” Real Time
Marrugeku presents CUT THE SKY
30 minutes Concert Hall, QPAC All Ages
Five songs for the future.
Cut the Sky is a meditation on humanity’s frailty in the face of our own actions; a ‘ghost musical’ sung by the climate change affected, the extinct and the dislocated. A work in five acts based on the poems written and spoken by Edwin Lee Mulligan, Cut the Sky includes original songs from soul singer Ngaiire, Indigenous songs by the cast and covers from Nick Cave, sung live with thrilling effect.
Like climate change itself, it is at once unapologetically local and international, a concept embedded in the collaboration, which includes artists from Europe, Asia, Africa and remote and urban Australia. Dance, video, poetry and song collide in this ambitious multidimensional work that showcases Marrugeku’s unique contemporary choreography: restless, taut and unwavering.
Image: Jon Green
Meet the artist
Marrugeku
Marrugeku makes innovative intercultural dance theatre from the northwest Australian experience: where desert meets sea and black meets white, where Australia meets Asia and cultures twine, fuse and morph.
Originally based in Western Arnhem land and now in Broome since 2003, Marrugeku creates new forms of storytelling exploring that town’s Indigenous and multi-ethnic community, its history and its contemporary social and political context. This is done in dialogue with international developments in performance practice and global popular culture. Award-winning works including Crying Baby (2001)Buru (2011) and Gudirr Gudirr (2013) have toured throughout remote and urban Australia and internationally.
Contact:
- Rachael Swain
- Co-Artistic Director
- Marrugeku
- rachael@marrugeku.com.au
- +61 411 626 515