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| 2007 |
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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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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
8 youth 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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| 2005 |
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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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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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Daly
River Residency
Touring of Fast to this Aboriginal Community followed by a week long residence.
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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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| 2003 |
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LOCAL
What does it means to be a true Territorian? And how long does it take?
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| 2002 |
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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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| 2001 |
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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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| 2000 |
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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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| 1999 |
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Top of the Tower
Creating a new work with the people of Palmerston. |
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Emergence
Consultancies to Corrugated Iron Youth Arts performance.
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Australian Youth Dance Festival
Performed on Magnetic Island 100 Buckets featured Festival participants. |
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Recollections
A multimedia, intergenerational afternoon for recollections and formation of new memories.
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| 1998 |
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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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| 1997 |
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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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Smooth as Gravel
Youth dance performance created for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts. |
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| 1995 |
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Lafaek Youth Fire Dance
Lafaek East Timorese youth group create fire dance based on traditional and modern usages of fire. |
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| 1992 |
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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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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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| 1991 |
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Mupullbah
Produced by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre, adaptation of Mordicia Gerstein’s The Mountain of Tibet.
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| 1990 |
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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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| 1989 |
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LAJAMANU COMMUNITY RESIDENCY 1
Three arts workers develop theatrical and visual arts skills with the younger community members, culminating in a performance and tour of other Warlpiri speaking communities.
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DANCE ON DARWIN
Dance on Darwin is a celebration of the strength, richness and diversity of dance in Darwin.
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DANCE FEAST
This meal and dance performance consisted of five groups combining to make a Feast of Dance. The age range of the performers was between 4 and 74.
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Living in Isolation
Founding Directors of Tracks, worked on this Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre. First contact with the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu.
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