NAISDA will give its end of year performance on November 21-23 at Carriageworks in Sydney.
Based at Kariong, NAISDA is Australia’s leading performing arts training organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
With an environmental theme, the performance will invite audiences to reflect on our collective responsibility in confronting our planet’s future.
The timely and poignant performance blends dance, humour and environmental awareness into a powerful call to arms, urging us to re-evaluate our relationship with nature.
Directed by acclaimed choreographer and NAISDA alumnus Vicki Van Hout, it weaves together First Nations cultural and contemporary dance, film, spoken word and sculptural set design to evoke a deep connection to Country.
Van Hout’s vision echoes the Earth’s distress, reminding us that time is quickly running out to heed nature’s warnings.
“This year’s production takes up the urgent call,” she said.
“We hear it on the wind as a roaring plea or as a cry from the trees as they catch fire.
“It’s mirrored in the alarm of emergent generations inheriting a legacy of unchecked consumption and neglect.
“In the Dreaming, all known and unknown things are sentient, interconnected within an animate and overarching entity.
“Instead of manipulating and mediating everything for human convenience through circuits, motherboards and virtual clouds, the trees have voices, the feet have ears proposes a reassertion of a dedicated, embodied rapport with Country.”
The production also features guest choreography by celebrated NAISDA alumni Glory Tuohy-Daniell and Henrietta Baird and Cultural Tutor Dujon Niue brings the culture, spirit, songs and dances of the Torres Strait Islands to the Carriageworks stage.
The performance continues NAISDA’s nearly 50-year legacy at the forefront of First Nations performing arts training.
For tickets go to carriageworks.com.au/events/naisda-2024/
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