Participatory Experiences: Choreographies and Dramaturgies of Contested Land

Open to participants who attended the morning keynote. Registration required. In English. French translation available

Marrugeku’s co-artistic directors Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain will lead an afternoon participatory workshop to share cultural, choreographic and dramaturgical methodologies of dance in contested lands. Drawing on their long term shared practice and equally from their distinct roles— Dalisa as a Yawuru/Bardi movement artist who draws on her mix Indigenous/Asian cultural heritage and Rachael as an Anglo- immigrant director and dramaturg—the workshop will explore the capacities of intercultural dance and storytelling to embody social, cultural, personal and interspecies expression drawn from the participants own movements, stories, cultural backgrounds and experiences of land and belonging. The workshop will support ways to engage the relational power of human and non-human witnessing and develop choreo-political manifesto.

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