SMOKE

Image Credit: Tajette O'Halloran & Kirk Page

SMOKE is a First Nations, intercultural dance–theatre work in development, co-created by Kirk Page and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal.

This creative development took place in November 2025 on Bundjalung Country.

Ignited by Mununjali Yugambeh and Mataram Javanese cultural knowledge systems, SMOKE follows smoke as a spirit vessel - witness to the offerings humans make and keeper of what rises from fire. Moving between ceremony and performance, it explores smoke as a force of warning, healing and renewal, drifting between the earthly and spiritual realms.

Bodies become living terrain - earth and breath entwined. Images surface and dissolve: ash, skin, spirit. Beneath it all, grief, endurance and a desire for freedom quietly burn.

SMOKE traces the experience of brown bodies raised by white mothers, entering the fragile terrain of home - where the body is both archive and altar, carrying memory that shifts like smoke.

From what fire were we first breathed into being -

and where does the smoke of our lives travel when the flames grow quiet?

CREATIVE TEAM

Co-Creator - Kirk Page, Munanjali, Badu Island in the Torres Strait

Co-Creator - Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, Javanese-Australian

Performer - Katina Olsen, Wakka Wakka/Kombumerri

Performer - Wayne Blair

Performer - Stuart Shugg

Performer - Glory Tuohy-Daniel, Indjalandji-Dhidhanu and Alyewarre

Design Consultant - Joey Ruigrok

Sound Designer - Anna Liebzeit

Sound Designer - Ria Soemardjo