SILENCE
SILENCE is about the space in between. Conversations not being heard and responses that are muted. A drum beats and bodies thrash through frequencies to uncover what lies in the SILENCE. There is SILENCE between stars as the emu travels across the night sky, or the dancer’s energy when they hit the cut between rhythms. It’s also the deafening silence under white noise. The same questions echoed through generations.
We’ve marched across Country. We’ve had promises made and broken. We’ve drafted our own treaty, and still we’re the only sovereign peoples without one.
Choreographed, written and directed by Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man Thomas E.S. Kelly, this new dance work pulls it from under the rug and slams it back on the table. Because the conversation about a TREATY will never be silenced.
CHOREOGRAPHER & PERFORMER
THOMAS E.S. KELLY
ORIGINAL CAST
TAREE SANSBURY
BENJIN MAZA
KIARA MALCOLM-WILSON
TIANA PINNELL
AMBER RAY NOFAL
JHINDU-PEDRO LAWRIE
ADDITIONAL CAST
EDAN PORTER
GLORY TUOHY-DANIELL
OLIVIA ADAMS
KEIA MCGRADY
TAMARA BOUMAN
DRAMATURGY
VICKI VAN HOUT
ALETHEA BEETSON
SOUND DESIGNER
SAMUEL PANKHURST
PERCUSSIVE DESIGN
JHINDU-PEDRO LAWRIE
LIGHTING DESIGN
KAREN NORRIS
COSTUME DESIGN
SELENE COCHRANE
PRODUCTION/STAGE MANAGER
SIMON COOK
PRODUCERS
BLAKDANCE
PHOTO CREDIT
JOSEPH MAYER
SEASONS
2020
BRISBANE FESTIVAL, QLD, BRISBANE POWERHOUSE WORLD PREMIERE
2022
GOLD COAST, QLD, HOME OF THE ARTS (HOTA)
CAIRNS, QLD, BULMBA-JA
ROCKHAMPTON, QLD, PILLBEAM THEATRE
LOGAN, QLD, LOGAN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
REDLANDS, QLD, REDLANDS PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
DANCE X, MELBOURNE, VIC, ARTS CENTRE MELBOUNE
2023
WYONG, NSW, ARTSHOUSE WYONG
GOULBURN, NSW, GOULBURN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
WARRNAMBOOL, VIC, THE LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE
NARRE WARREN, VIC, BUNJIL PLACE
FRANKSTON, VIC, FRANKSTON ARTS CENTRE
BENDIGO, VIC, ULUMBARRA THEATRE
ADELAIDE, SA, THE ODEON (AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE)
ORANGE, NSW, ORANGE CIVIC THEATRE
TAMWORTH, NSW, CAPITOL THEATRE
WAGGA WAGGA, NSW, WAGGA WAGGA CIVIC THEATRE
BATHURST, NSW, BATHURST MEMORIAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
WOLLONGONG, NSW, MERRIGONG THEATRE
DARWIN FESTIVAL, NT, DARWIN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
2024
ISPA PERTH, WA, HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
UNWRAPPED SYDNEY, NSW, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
THIS PROJECT WAS CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM;
BLAKDANCE
BRISBANE FESTIVAL
HOTA - HOME OF THE ARTS
QPAC - QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
ARTS QUEENSLAND
CREATIVE AUSTRALIA
VIDEO CREDIT
SIMON WOODS