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WALKING ON WATER
Performance rituals that sooth the passage of death and applauded the miracle of survival in the age of AIDS.
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SHADES OF PINK
A meeting between Miss Olive Pink, once labelled “the fiercest white woman in captivity” and the Aboriginal Warlpiri people of the Tanami Desert.
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Court to Country
Co-production with Arafura Ensemble which celebrated Australian Dance Week
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Top of the Tower
A large scale, outdoor performance celebrating the Palmerston lifestyle directed by Tracks for the Palmerston City Council
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Emergence
Co-production with Corrugated Iron Youth Theater depicting the cultural and scientific relationships between the dragonfly and the environment.
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Australian Youth Dance Festival
The closing event performed on Magnetic Island featured 100 buckets and festival participants
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Recollections
A multimedia, intergenerational afternoon for recollections and formation of new memories.
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RELUCTANT RETIREES
This full-length cabaret by the Grey Panthers took us on a journey of two women about to retire.
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LAND THE CROSS AND THE LOTUS
A reflection on three life journeys; Purukupali the creator of Tiwi culture, the Virgin Mary of Christianity and Siddhartha, the Buddha.
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Stanley Stanislaus Indigenous Residency
Ten week residency with Tracks Dance was part of his Aboriginal Dance Apprenticeship Professional Training
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KUKANARRI SHOW
Kukanarri describes celebrations when the whole community comes together This performance dealt with the issues identified by Nguiu community that caused the high youth suicide rate.
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Interactions
Exploring how diverse traditions interact with each other to create new artforms while maintaining their own integrity.
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Invisible Heroes
Co-Production with Arafura Ensemble, Invisible Heroes is a celebration of facets of our identity as Australians
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BODIES OF LIGHT
A community response to the AIDS Pandemic. Our support and acceptance of each other in all our diversity provides power and visibility.
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4WD
SWEAT DUST AND ROMANCE
A gutsy evening of entertainment: featuring dancers, music, and four wheel drives. A journey into the heart of the Territory.
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Angurugu Community Residency 2
Wild Things was the second part of a project begun in 1993 working with young people at risk to create a full length community show within this Aboriginal Community.
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King Lear
A Darwin Theatre Company production in which Tracks artist take on key elements.
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Smooth as Gravel
A Co-Production with Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre under the direction of Sarah Calver
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HEALTHY WEALTHY AND WISE
The extraordinary adventures of the Grey Panthers go on tour. From bedpans and false teeth to gardening and cardio moves.
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SIX FEET OVER OR UNDER
Our bodies carry our past with us, personal sacred spaces moulded by family, people and place. Six feet above, six feet below.
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NGAPA
– TWO CULTURES ONE COUNTRY
Nine Australian artists journeyed into the centre of Australia, seven traditional owners and two Tracks artists. Together, they followed the 2000 km Ngapa Jukurrpa (the rainstorm dreaming) path.
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THE OPPORTUNITY OF DISTANCE
Touring a distinctive slice of Territory life in a compelling three-piece performance.
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Bodies of Water
Dance event for National Water Week.
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BOUNDARIES AND BEYOND
Touring the Northern Territory Boundaries and Beyond comprised of three separate works
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HEALTHY WEALTHY AND WISE
Following the extraordinary adventures of the Grey Panthers. From bedpans and false teeth Followed the extraordinary adventures of the Grey Panthers go on tour.
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Kikidi Cultural Camp
Fire in its traditional Easts Timorese uses as well as the flame of youth burning into the future
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Indigenous Dancer/choreographer in-Residence
Dorethea Randall – Aboriginal Dancer and Choreographer in residence.
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YIPIRINYA – AFTER THE RAIN
Yipirinya School was founded as an Independent Aboriginal Community School. This performance follows stories of the Yipirinya caterpillar as it makes its way into Alice Springs
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SACRED SPACE
A multimedia work, blending movement, images and spoken word: The affect remote Aboriginal communities may have on European people.
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Open House
Compared by Tracks Dance Collective, this second Open House was a community dance performance, which brought together diverse groups, dancers and activities.
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Gathering Ground 2
In the year that gives birth to Tracks Dance Collective, this second Gathering Ground is part of an ongoing search into ways of working with the incredibly diverse community that exists in Darwin.
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MY HOUSE
My House is an exciting, original piece of dance theatre, created by Tracks Dance and presented by members of the Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre.
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A Winter’s Tale
Guest Director Janet Robertson for Darwin Theatre Company engaged David McMicken and Sarah Calver of Tracks Dance Collective as choreographers for "A Winters Tale"
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One Earth, One Family
A co-production with Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre in conjunction with the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, and Greening Australia, for World Environment Day
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LAND
An Offering of professional dance from the Territory. Silent Thought, As I Am, Chaos.
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Angurugu Groote Eylandt Community
Residency 1
This residency was devised as a way to show how community arts practices could assist in curtailing the antisocial behaviours as well as provide a longer term plan for community development.
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Open House
Welcome to the first open House, an evening of dance with a difference. What you are about to see are "draft" works by various local artists and community groups.
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Gathering Ground 1
The call is put out to the Darwin dance communities – come to the gathering ground prepared to show your best.
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LAJAMANU KURRA KARNA YANI
Teenagers from Lajamanu ventured to Darwin to create a new work the first to be developed outside of the community.
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FLYING OFF THE EDGE
New works by Darwin choreographers. Falling or fly?
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TRACKS AND CLUSTERS
An outdoor dusk processional performance where audience follow tracks to discover clusters of dancers responding to the theme of Our Place.
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Indigenous Dancer/Choreographer in-Residence
Dorethea Randall – Aboriginal Dancer and Choreographer in residence.
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OLD SPICE CABARET
From rap to tap, the Grey Panthers took us on a journey through song and dance through the decades.
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FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW
Yipirinya Kids Perform. Time passes and the seeds become trees. Echidnas, eagles, goannas, waterholes, airplanes and Michael Jackson.
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Community Dancer In Residence
David McMicken holds the position of Community Dance Artist at Brown's Mart Community Arts as Sarah Calver is on Maternity Leave.
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NORTH OF THE BORDER
Making a move in your direction. New works by Darwin and Guest choreographers tour the Northern Territory.
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Mupullbah
Produced by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre, adaptation of Mordicia Gerstein’s The Mountain of Tibet.
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Community Dancer In Residence
"This year has seen some developments and new directions for dance." Brown's Mart Community Arts Community Dance Program - Dance Development Officer Sarah Calver
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THRU’ MOVES
Reflects the ambiguities of the ancient legends, entwining old and new dance forms capturing our cultural diversity.
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LAJAMANU COMMUNITY RESIDENCY 2
Resulting work developed around the image of Goannas and hunting. Utilising circus skills, dance and visuals incorporating their Warlpiri culture and dreamings.
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Jabiru Community Residency
Guest artist Debra Batton. Although a little daunted at spending seven weeks in a mining town, I was interested in this dance project as it was flexible and new.
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New Ways Old Ways
Tracks artists working with Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre. Particular focus on a play written by Selma Sampson Nampijinpa from the community of Lajamanu, The Girl Who Was Taken Away from Her Family.
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Community Dancer In Residence
The third year of the Dancer-In-Community position at Brown's Mart, held by Sarah Calver. The three main areas of focus are, Community Dance, Dance Theatre, and Residencies – especially Indigenous and cross cultural projects
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