THE OTHER SIDE OF ME - Gary Lang NT DANCE COMPANY
Following the success of their 2022 show Waŋa, NT Dance Company offer a powerful, moving dance duet that navigates the limits of physical expression.
Image by Paz Tassone
The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang shares the tragedy of Stolen Generations through the heartbreaking story of one man stranded between two families, continents and cultures. This achingly intimate dance duet confronts the destruction wrought by Motherland and colony still felt by First Nations people, but offers the redemptive beauty of singing his spirit home.
West and Central Australia Tour locations 2024
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Saturday 27 April 7:30 PM
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as part of Red Earth Arts Festival - REAF 2024
Friday 10 May 8.00 PM
Dance Workshops:
Thursday 9 May 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Thursday 9 May 5:00 - 6:00 PM: ‘Join the Company’ intermediate-advanced dance workshop
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Friday 17 May 7:00 PM
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as part of Garrmalang Festival
Studio Theatre
Wednesday 22 May 7:00 PM
Thursday 23 May 7:00 PM
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Saturday 1 June 7:30 PM
About NT Dance Company
GARY LANG ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Born in Darwin, Larrakia man Gary Lang is a NAISDA graduate and alumnus of Bangarra and Dancenorth. Since 2002 Gary Lang has choreographed 9 seminal works in the Aboriginal dance canon, including GOOSE LAGOON, Mokuy, Waŋa (Spirit), Forbidden, Milnjiya, Milky Way' — River of Stars created with the Western Australian Ballet. In 2013, he was honoured with the distinguished Australia Council for the Arts’ Dance Board Fellowship.
Creatives / Artists:
Gary Lang (Choreographer) Larrakia
Josephine Crawshaw (Cultural Consultant) Kalkarindji
Jesse Norris (Cultural Consultant) Torres Strait Island descendent
Banula Marika (Cultural Consultant, Songman) Yolŋu
Erica McCallum (NT Dance Company General Manager)
Elizabeth Rogers (Project Manager)
Noelle Shader (Rehearsal Director)
Laura Fish (Co-Creator, Dramaturg, Writer)
Liz Pavey (Co-Creator, Dramaturg)
Chandler Connell (Performer) Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal
Alexander Abbot (Performer)
Tyrel Dulvarie (Performer - Margaret River + Perth) Yirrganydji
Janet Munyarryun (Voice Artist) Yolŋu
Samuel Pankhurst (Composer/Sound Designer)
Arian Pearson (Sound Designer) Yolŋu
Samuel James (Video Artist)
Joseph Mercurio (Lighting Designer)
Jennifer Irwin (Costume Designer)
BlakDance (Tour Producer)
The story is based on actual events. However, names, incidents and timelines have been changed for dramatic purposes. All characters depicted in the production are composites or fictitious. Any similarity to the original story, or of fictitious characters to an actual person, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.
The Other Side of Me is produced by Gary Lang NT Dance Company with the tour produced by BlakDance. The national tour has received financial assistance from the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
The production is a collaboration between Gary Lang NT Dance Company and Northumbria University, UK. It has received financial support through the Northern Territory Government, Regional Arts Australia, the British Council, Creative Australia, Brisbane Festival and Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
The work premiered in 2023 in Darwin Festival at the Darwin Entertainment Centre.
