Working together with young people from Broome to tell both contemporary and dreamtime stories is probably the most inspiring aspect of the project for me.
Dalisa Pigram, Co-Director and Choreographer
Buru
Marrugeku
Buru is Marrugeku's new work for children. Buru (dirt-land-earth; time-seasons-place) is a story sequence inspired by and specially devised in consultation with the Broome community to retell in performance the stories of the six Yawuru seasons. Some of the retellings are traditional, some contemporary, drawn from the lives of young Broome people.
They are Mangala-wet season; Marrul - big tides/wind change; Wirralburu-wind change/salmon time; Barrgana - cold time/creek fish; Wirlburu - first hot wind blows, first thunder and lightening; Larja - build up to wet, proper hot time, animals come out again.
The stories of the Yawuru seasons, together with the Red Lizard and Greedy Turtle stories connect land, environment, story, culture and social life, letting the land and the weather speak, through the semi-traditional lives of young people in Broome, and giving urban Australia a window into a very different environment.Drawing on the lived experience of the young participants, the project moves between contemporary dance and text based scenes reflecting life for young people in Broome and through stilt dance, music and digital and real time storytelling we will juxtapose these with telling traditional stories of Yawuru seasons.
Buru returns to Marrugeku's internationally acclaimed process of translating traditional stories into contemporary stilt dance (Mimi, Crying Baby) in a way that speaks to multiple audiences in the community. In 2010 Buru will be presented in the Kimberley Indigenous communities of Bidijdanga, Broome and One Arm Point.
Producer/ co-director Rachael Swain Deviser/ Co-director Dalisa Pigram Performers Dalisa Pigram, Sermsah Bin Saad, 10 young Broome performers Designer Fiona Foley Composer Matthew Fargher Musicians Lorrae Coffin, MC Dazastah, Justin Grey
They are Mangala-wet season; Marrul - big tides/wind change; Wirralburu-wind change/salmon time; Barrgana - cold time/creek fish; Wirlburu - first hot wind blows, first thunder and lightening; Larja - build up to wet, proper hot time, animals come out again.
The stories of the Yawuru seasons, together with the Red Lizard and Greedy Turtle stories connect land, environment, story, culture and social life, letting the land and the weather speak, through the semi-traditional lives of young people in Broome, and giving urban Australia a window into a very different environment.Drawing on the lived experience of the young participants, the project moves between contemporary dance and text based scenes reflecting life for young people in Broome and through stilt dance, music and digital and real time storytelling we will juxtapose these with telling traditional stories of Yawuru seasons.
Buru returns to Marrugeku's internationally acclaimed process of translating traditional stories into contemporary stilt dance (Mimi, Crying Baby) in a way that speaks to multiple audiences in the community. In 2010 Buru will be presented in the Kimberley Indigenous communities of Bidijdanga, Broome and One Arm Point.
Producer/ co-director Rachael Swain Deviser/ Co-director Dalisa Pigram Performers Dalisa Pigram, Sermsah Bin Saad, 10 young Broome performers Designer Fiona Foley Composer Matthew Fargher Musicians Lorrae Coffin, MC Dazastah, Justin Grey
Details
Performances7pm 6 - 8 Oct
Broome Camp School (entry through Cable Beach Amphitheatre)
Tickets
Full $17
Concession $15
Child $10
Bookings
Broome Visitors Centre or online
marrugeku.com.au
youtube.com/user/marrugeku