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1992: TRACKS AND CLUSTERS a dusk dance procession – Civic Park, Darwin |
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Personnel : Performers :Scenario |
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This community dance performance took the form of an outdoor processional dance that led the audience through the buildings and surrounding park areas next to Browns Mart Community Arts. The theme was “Our Place” and the performance utilized attitudes and responses to place. It was a performance with a map for a programme. The show was seen by approximately 300 people and performed by 116 people.
13 sections were created with live music for each.
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ILLUSTRATION: Tim Newth
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The format was chosen to allow smaller groups to dance without getting lost in vast numbers. This was an attempt to find a more intimate connection between audience and performers. Usually community dance relies on numbers and spectacle. |
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The performance utilized people across the full range of the Brown’s Mart Community dance program, ages from 4 – 78. |
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Four Darwin Dance Mob groups (youth, adult X 2, the Grey Panthers women over 50), Local Troupe trained dancers, local fire dancers, Corrugated Iron Youth dancers, Casuarina Secondary College dance students, as well as the Big and Little Voice Choir. |
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Creative
Personnel |
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Performers |
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Darwin Dance Mob groups (youth, two different adult groups, the Grey Panthers (women over 50)
Local Troupe (trained dancers)
The Big and Little Voice Choir
Fire dancers
Corrugated Iron Youth dancers
Casuarina Secondary College year 11 & 12
Brown’s Mart Staff |
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Scenario |
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STARTING PLACE
Brown’s Mart
A welcome and Introduction to an historic building. Crowd control and lanterns on Poles. Follow the Stars.
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DOWN THE TRACK
Dance Mob
Travelling through landscape, laying down tracks, sand trails, hand and footprints. Looking for direction. |
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TRACK OF BROKEN DREAMS
Dance Mob and Local Troupe
Places and Times. Places in the mind. Suling and Conga. |
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UNDER THE BANYAN TREE
Grey Panthers (over 50’s)
Looking for that special place. The garden and its joys. A rhythmical chant created by the use of garden implements and natural vegetation. |
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SEARCHING FOR PLACE
Dance Mob
The journey has started, the tracks have been laid, we search for a significant place. Maps and torches help guide us. |
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HEARTHEARTHEART
Fire Dancers
Women with flaming sticks rejoice in their connection to the earth and their sadness at the disconnection that can come from imposing structures. The larger flame torches represent hope as we storm the Town Council Buildings. |
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CANDLE LIT PATHWAYS
Leading ahead, guiding |
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SPOOKY PLACE
Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre
In the minds of young people we come to a scary place, coloured squares of cloth, shrouds and cobwebs. The trees are full of sounds. |
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TIED TO PLACE
Dance Mob
What things tie us to place? Is this a restriction, or a boundary that provides greater freedom? Literally tied to the ground our performers stand their ground. |
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CORNERS OF THE MIND
Local troupe
Imagination, like shadows, flees across the shelters in the hidden places of the mind. |
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VOICES FROM A CHASM
The Big and little Voice Choir, Anglican Cathedral
World songs fill the cathedral, the place affects the sound. From a ritualistic ambience, bells lead us onwards. |
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BODIES OF WATER
Casuarina Secondary College
Water as a place. Waterfalls, wetlands, small dripping places. Passing sacred water, the choir wave the ship off into the unknown waters, Fluid sounds back the secondary students as they dance in front of the red sprinkler |
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WISHING WELL GROVE
Dance Mob under 8’s
These young dancers wish fro a place with flying horses, super heroes, tooth fairies and some tough fighting. Three wishing wells in a circle of palm trees, marimbas playing and the sound hangs like drops in a spider web. Star Lanterns light our way to the very centre of the spaces |
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TRACKS AND CLUSTERS
Entire cast
Circles within circles, the entire cast makes a design in the space. An African song unifies the performers as their movement phrases from the performance meld to create one phrase. Time is suspended as everyone comes to the same place. |
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