"...strikingly surreal sense of humour, powerful performers, a well-tuned ensemble sensibility and a dynamic design."
RealTime
Burning Daylight
Marrugeku Theatre Company
It's Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip hop meets Japanese love song. A lone cowboy blows into town, stirring its ghosts for a long and wild night, as past and present dance it out on the street.
This spectacular high energy production incorporates old and new forms to conjure an image of today's Broome - the traces of its past as wild frontier town still real, but also mythologised in glossy tourist brochures. Like the rest of the world, a place where young people live out complex identities spanning traditional cultures and global street culture.
Burning Daylight's Director, Rachael Swain, was inspired by the depiction of Broome at the turn of the 19th to 20th century as an "Asian Wild West". The production features "karaoke noodle western videos" by Warwick Thornton, the award winning Director of Samson and Delilah, music by MC Dazastah of Perth based hip hop crew Downsyde, and performances by actor Trevor Jamieson of Ngapartji Ngapartji and Sermsah Bin Saad or Suri, a recent finalist in So You Think You Can Dance.
Forging exciting new ground in contemporary indigenous and intercultural dance theatre in Australia, Burning Daylight was choreographed by Belgian based West African Serge Aime Coulibalay (former member of Les Ballets C de la B) working with Broome-based indigenous choreographer Dalisa Pigram.
Marraugeku's previous works, Mimi (Perth Festival 1996, Dreaming Festival 1997) and Crying Baby (Perth, Sydney and Darwin Festivals 2000-02) were acclaimed by audiences around the country and internationally.
Produced by Stalker Theatre Company & Performing Lines
Director Rachael Swain Choreographer Serge Aime Coulibaly Assistant Choreographer Dalisa Pigram Designer Joey Ruigrok van der Werven Cinematographer Warwick Thornton Costume Designer Stephen Curtis Lighting Designer Geoff Cobham Musical Director Matthew Fargher Musicians / Composers Amanda Brown, Dazastah, Lorrae Coffin & Justin Gray Dramaturgy Josephine Wilson & David Pledger Performers/ Devisers Trevor Jamieson, Dalisa Pigram, Owen Maher, Sermsah Bin Saad, Antonia Djiagween & Yumi Umiumare
Burning Daylight is toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, a national touring initiative supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.
Burning Daylight and Marrugeku were assisted by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts, the Australia Council's New Australian Stories Initiative and its Dance, Theatre, Music, New Media and CCD Boards; The Sidney Myer Fund; the Australian Film Commission; The Kimberley Regional Development Scheme; and Country Arts WA.
This spectacular high energy production incorporates old and new forms to conjure an image of today's Broome - the traces of its past as wild frontier town still real, but also mythologised in glossy tourist brochures. Like the rest of the world, a place where young people live out complex identities spanning traditional cultures and global street culture.
Burning Daylight's Director, Rachael Swain, was inspired by the depiction of Broome at the turn of the 19th to 20th century as an "Asian Wild West". The production features "karaoke noodle western videos" by Warwick Thornton, the award winning Director of Samson and Delilah, music by MC Dazastah of Perth based hip hop crew Downsyde, and performances by actor Trevor Jamieson of Ngapartji Ngapartji and Sermsah Bin Saad or Suri, a recent finalist in So You Think You Can Dance.
Forging exciting new ground in contemporary indigenous and intercultural dance theatre in Australia, Burning Daylight was choreographed by Belgian based West African Serge Aime Coulibalay (former member of Les Ballets C de la B) working with Broome-based indigenous choreographer Dalisa Pigram.
Marraugeku's previous works, Mimi (Perth Festival 1996, Dreaming Festival 1997) and Crying Baby (Perth, Sydney and Darwin Festivals 2000-02) were acclaimed by audiences around the country and internationally.
Produced by Stalker Theatre Company & Performing Lines
Director Rachael Swain Choreographer Serge Aime Coulibaly Assistant Choreographer Dalisa Pigram Designer Joey Ruigrok van der Werven Cinematographer Warwick Thornton Costume Designer Stephen Curtis Lighting Designer Geoff Cobham Musical Director Matthew Fargher Musicians / Composers Amanda Brown, Dazastah, Lorrae Coffin & Justin Gray Dramaturgy Josephine Wilson & David Pledger Performers/ Devisers Trevor Jamieson, Dalisa Pigram, Owen Maher, Sermsah Bin Saad, Antonia Djiagween & Yumi Umiumare
Burning Daylight is toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, a national touring initiative supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.
Burning Daylight and Marrugeku were assisted by the Western Australian Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts, the Australia Council's New Australian Stories Initiative and its Dance, Theatre, Music, New Media and CCD Boards; The Sidney Myer Fund; the Australian Film Commission; The Kimberley Regional Development Scheme; and Country Arts WA.
Details
29 - 31 OctGoolarri Outdoor Venue, Broome
Presented by Goolarri Media Enterprises & Mobile States
7.30pm 4 - 7 Nov
Russell Square, Northbridge
Tickets: $18 - $25
Presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts & Mobile States
12 - 15 Nov
Bay 20, Carriageworks, Sydney
Presented by Performance Space, CarriageWorks & Mobile States
19 - 22 Nov
Arts House Meat Market, Melbourne
Presented by Arts House & Mobile States
26 - 28 Nov
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Presented by Salamanca Arts Centre & Tasmania Performs
60 minutes
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