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Tracks’ work is highly original, strongly visual and acknowledges the people and place from which it originates. The company is known for its innovative, large scale, outdoor performances that bring together participants from diverse cultures and artistic disciplines. Tracks’ core product is high quality, inclusive and innovative dance performances.
PLEASE NOTE: DVDs of productions are available for educational and research purposes only.
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CROCODILE MAN PINEAPPLE WOMAN
Celebrating the rich cultural relationships that the Northern Territory fosters, Tracks takes creative licence with a uniquely true Territorian love story between a Hungarian crocodile hunter and glamorous Thai pineapple seller.
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COLLISION - Choreographic Program Showing
A showing of new dance works by young and emerging choreographers.
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| 2010 |
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ALLURE OF PARADISE
What is the ‘Allure of Paradise’?
What brings us to the tropical north of Australia – the gateway to paradise? Why do we holiday here?
Why do we settle here?
Tracks Dance Company brings together some of Darwin’s best-loved choreographers and dancers to explore what paradise means to them.
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THE COOK THE QUEEN AND THE KELLY
Tall Territory Tales!
Who taught Ned Kelly to use chopsticks and why?
What was the Queen really doing in the Tanami desert in 1954?
How did Captain Cook arrive in the red centre and who are the Sons of Cook?
Worlds collide, cultures connect and folklore becomes fact in this comic celebration of twisted history!
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UNRAVEL – Choreographic Program Showing
A show and tell afternoon of dance. A chance to see what Darwin’s emerging choreographers are thinking, feeling & creating!
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| 2009 |
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MILPIRRI 09
This year’s MILPIRRI is based on the Juntu purlapa. Purlapa is a type of open (public) performance and celebration. The Juntu performance teaches a story about kuruwarri (the law).
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ENDURANCE
Capturing the dogged spirit, passion and resilience of the Northern Territory. Transforming a bicycle-racing track into a spectacular outdoor theatre, ENDURANCE features a cast of over thirty dancers, long distant runners and bodybuilders.
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WHERE IS THE LINE — Youth Choreographic Program
A show & tell afternoon of experimental dance. A chance to see what Darwin’s young choreographers are thinking, feeling & creating!
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| 2008 |
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Art at the Heart
Creative consultancy commissioned by the Northern Territory Government for the Regional Arts Australia Conference. Tracks worked as Creative Consultant with Alice Springs Artists to vision and create the Opening Ceremony.
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LIPSTICK & OCHRE
LIPSTICK & OCHRE is a journey into the spirit of our land, guided through life and time by the collective wisdom and experience of these two groups of older women and their guests. Don’t be fooled into thinking growing old is an entirely serious matter though. This is a story told with a laugh, some earthy mischief and a spot of mayhem…
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STRUCK
Love struck, Star struck, Struck down. STRUCK is a romance set in unstable times of change set amongst the World War II ruins of Darwin. It is a meeting of difference utilising Break-Dance, Ballet, and Contemporary dance styles.
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| 2007 |
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Philippines Cultural Visit
An exchange to expand Tracks' understanding of Filipino culture.
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MILPIRRI 07
The Warlpiri Elders and residents of Lajamanu presented the 2007 MILPIRRI EVENT, celebrating the Warlpiri Kurdiji Ceremony; a young man’s initiation ceremony, which tells the story of Mothers and Sons.
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YOU DANCE FUNNY
Roll up, roll up as the world’s whack-iest dance carnival to town!
Step into the ring for a mystical night of entertainment with this star-studded line up of freaks, misfits and has-beens.
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ARAFURA GAMES
‘Welcome to Darwin – Home of the Arafura Games’.
Following Tracks’ success in 2005, the Company will again direct the ‘main act’ of the 2007 ARAFURA GAMES OPENING CEREMONY.
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| 2006 |
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WITHOUT SEA
Remove the oceans from the world and you have a world without boundaries, without cultural divide. Darwin is our world without sea.
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MR BIG
MR BIG is about the spirit of Darwin, from its transition as a sleepy little town to one of Australia’s fastest growing cities. Featuring Tracks’ Youth Dancers.
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BOWLS CLUB WEDDING
Kitty and Jack are members of long-standing rival Darwin bowls clubs. Can they prove that love can conquer even the most virulent rivalry?
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Australian Youth Dance Festival
Eight youth dancers travel from Darwin to attend. Tracks Artistic Directors mentor key artists over 5 days and to create final performance with 250 youth participants in Horsham Victoria.
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Lajamanu Residency
Nick Power and Erwin Fenis run week of workshops leading to a performance in this remote Aboriginal Community.
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MILPIRRI 05
MILPIRRI draws together the oldest and the most recent of Indigenous Warlpiri culture in promise of growth and rejuvenation.
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ANGELS
OF GRAVITY
Lured by gravity, Angels descend from heaven, placing foot upon earth. Journey as they swing us around the middle years.
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ARAFURA GAMES OPENING CEREMONY – Main Act
A commission by the Northern Territory Government to create the Main Act of the Opening Ceremony for this international sports event.
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| 2004 |
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RUST
Live art about the body, decline and reformation.
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SNAKES
GODS & DEITIES
Featuring the Sama Ballet Company from Sri Lanka and cultural dancers and musicians from Darwin: a journey into a freedom from fear.
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FAST
FAST paced, FAST music, FAST cast: driven by a desire to seize all that life offers.
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Daly
River Residency
Touring of Fast to this Aboriginal Community followed by a week long residence.
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Seating Reserve
A short work for Victoria Collage of the Arts dance students performed within the seating bank of the Gas Works Theatre, Melbourne.
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Australian Youth Dance Festival
Tracks Artistic Directors create a 60 min site specific performance with 250 youth participants in Armidale NSW
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LOCAL
What does it means to be a true Territorian? And how long does it take?
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JANGANPA
Traditional elders of the central desert, in collaboration with the artistic directors of Tracks present epic stories of love, greed and desire.
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BOWLS CLUB WEDDING
Kitty and Jack are members of long-standing rival Darwin bowls clubs. Can they prove that love can conquer even the most virulent rivalry?
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Between Foot and Voice
A Tracks research project where non-indigenous and indigenous dance artists exploring the contemporary dance language that originates from Australian Warlpiri (desert) and Tiwi (Top End) dance forms
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| 2002 |
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FIERCE:
THE STORY OF OLIVE 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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RIVERS
OF THE UNDERGROUND (2)
A reworking of the 2001 production – featuring a multicultural cast exploring our living behaviour in relationship to beliefs of the afterlife.
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IGNITE
Ignite explores these young dancers’ ups and downs, their dreams and desires to take on responsibilities and commitments.
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Asia Link Residency
To take up residency in Sri Lanka for three months was both artistically stimulating and personally rejuvenating - Tim Newth
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FIERCE:
THE STORY OF OLIVE PINK
Miss Olive Muriel Pink, once labelled “the fiercest white woman in captivity”.
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RIVERS
OF THE UNDERGROUND
A young Hindu man confronts life’s greatest mystery. Has living in Darwin prepared him for his journey into the afterlife?
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MOTHER DAUGHTER
There is a wealth of knowledge, wisdom and affection that "mother", needs to pass on to "daughter".
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Placement
A collaboration with Tasmania’s Stompin Youth Dance Company creating a new work and seven ceremonies for Aboriginal community across the island.
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Dear
Auntie
Featuring the Grey Panthers, this is a grab-bag of entertainment, song, dance and theatre. Find out why Auntie always knows best!
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Multicultural artist in Residence
Betchay Mondragon engages with the community in many programs and events throughout the year. Also linking artists to Tracks Program.
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OUTSIDE
THE CAMP
Outside the Camp is a work of fiction based on stories of Indigenous and Non-indigenous people’s experience of Channel Island Leprosarium.
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LOVE
Vs GRAVITY
Flying high on the wings of an angel, the weight of love keeps us with both feet firmly on the ground.
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TWO FOLD JOURNEY
A celebration of youth, dance and place. Layering the journey from childhood to adulthood with that of travelling between one culture and another.
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STICKS
‘N’ STONES
A community arts project, bringing together youth from different cultural backgrounds to celebrate cultural identities, explore ways of understanding difference and promote racial tolerance.
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Olympic Flame
An event conceived for the Olympic torch passing through the Aboriginal community of Nguiu.
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