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.

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.

FAST paced, FAST music, FAST cast: driven by a desire to seize all that life offers.

Ignite explores these young dancers’ ups and downs, their dreams and desires to take on responsibilities and commitments.

Where we live, the affect on the land, and our relationships. A youth dance tour across the Top End.

ARAFURA GAMES
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‘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.

Remove the oceans from the world and you have a world without boundaries, without cultural divide. Darwin is our world without sea.

Kitty and Jack are members of long-standing rival Darwin bowls clubs. Can they prove that love can conquer even the most virulent rivalry?

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.

Milpirri draws together the oldest and the most recent of Indigenous Warlpiri culture in promise of growth and rejuvenation.

A commission by the Northern Territory Government to create the Main Act of the Opening Ceremony for this international sports event.

Touring of Fast to this Aboriginal Community followed by a week long residence.

Tracks Artistic Directors create a 60 min site specific performance with 250 youth participants in Armidale NSW.

What does it means to be a true Territorian? And how long does it take?

A reworking of the 2001 production – featuring a multicultural cast exploring our living behaviour in relationship to beliefs of the afterlife.

A young Hindu man confronts life’s greatest mystery. Has living in Darwin prepared him for his journey into the afterlife?

There is a wealth of knowledge, wisdom and affection that "mother", needs to pass on to "daughter".

A collaboration with Tasmania’s Stompin Youth Dance Company creating a new work and seven ceremonies for Aboriginal community across the island.

A celebration of youth, dance and place. Layering the journey from childhood to adulthood with that of travelling between one culture and another.

A community arts project, bringing together youth from different cultural backgrounds to celebrate cultural identities, explore ways of understanding difference and promote racial tolerance.

Creating a new work with the people of Palmerston.

Consultancies to Corrugated Iron Youth Arts performance.

Performed on Magnetic Island 100 Buckets featured Festival participants.

A multimedia, intergenerational afternoon for recollections and formation of new memories.

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.

Exploring how diverse traditions interact with each other to create new artforms while maintaining their own integrity.

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.

Youth dance performance created for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts.

Lafaek East Timorese youth group create fire dance based on traditional and modern usages of fire.

Teenagers from Lajamanu ventured to Darwin to create a new work the first to be developed outside of the community.

From Little Things Big Things Grow
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Yipirinya Kids Perform. Time passes and the seeds become trees. Echidnas, eagles, goannas, waterholes, airplanes and Michael Jackson.

Produced by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre, adaptation of Mordicia Gerstein’s The Mountain of Tibet.

Resulting work developed around the image of Goannas and hunting. Utilising circus skills, dance and visuals incorporating their Warlpiri culture and dreamings.

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.

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.

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.

Dance on Darwin is a celebration of the strength, richness and diversity of dance in Darwin.

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.

Founding Directors of Tracks, worked on this Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre. First contact with the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu.