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Media Release August 2022
Announcing tickets on sale for the August - October Queensland tour of SILENCE by Karul Projects, produced by BlakDance.
“Yes, this is an urgent piece of ceremony” Ellen van Neerven
“Kelly’s movement style is grounded and fluid, rising and falling with a flurry of wild pent-up spinning and stamping” Denise Richardson, Dance Australia
The SILENCE Queensland tour opens in a homecoming at HOTA Home of the Arts, Gold Coast 31 August 2022. The tour presents live and digital performances as well as workshops along Queensland’s east coast.
SILENCE is an entry point to First Nations human rights, our struggle, and call for Treaty.
SILENCE breaks the SILENCE.
Choreographed by Thomas E.S. Kelly, SILENCE is a powerful dance performance, featuring seven performers on a stage slowly engulfed in dirt, representing the call for Land Back.
Dynamic live percussion drives the dancers' exploration of past, present, alternate realities and dreamscapes of the milky way and Murun, the emu in the sky.
Karul Projects is an emerging First Nations professional contemporary dance company based on Minjungbal Jogan, founded in 2017 by Thomas E.S. Kelly, Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu, and Taree Sansbury, Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjerri.
Tour dates and locations
HOTA Home Of The Arts, Gold Coast (31 August - 1 September) Kombumerri
Bulmba-ja Arts Centre, Cairns (7 September) (presented in partnership with Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, CIAF) Yidinji
Dancenorth, Townsville (8 September) (workshop) Wulgurukaba
Proserpine Entertainment Centre, Proserpine (9 September) (digital presentation) Giya
Eungella State School, Eungella, (12 September) (schools workshop) Yuwiburra and Widi
Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton (15 September) Darumbal
Logan Entertainment Centre, Logan (11 October) Yuggera And Gugingin
Redland Performing Arts Centre, Redland (14 October) Quandamooka