PERFORMANCE TIMES
In Season
6.30pm, Fri 9 May
3pm, Sat 10 May
A riveting pre-apocalyptic odyssey of dance theatre, song and storytelling questions the inevitability of climate collapse, and calls you to imagine alternative futures in which we all play a part.
Marrugeku's powerful, provocative performance casts its gaze to a horizon that still shimmers with hope, but only if we take action.
Visceral, vocal and urgent, Cut the Sky digs into the colonial mindset that has transformed First Nations lands into a resource supermarket to explore the deep fissures left in its wake. Division and inequality, violence and disaster are evoked in lyrical and urgent forms, performed with this dynamic company’s signature passion and intensity.
Featuring songs by Ngaiire and Tanya Tagaq, cyclonic choreography and video art capturing epic landscapes— this is dance theatre, song and storytelling that will not be denied. A diverse cast of First Nations and settler performers bring their brave and unblinking perspectives to themes of resilience and repair. A riveting pre-apocalyptic odyssey that dares to question the inevitability of climate collapse, Cut the Sky is also a call to imagine alternative futures in which we all play a part.
Image credit: Bryony Jackson
CO-CHOREOGRAPHER, CONCEPT
DALISA PIGRAM (SHE / HER), YAWURU / BARDI & MALAY / FILIPINO
DIRECTOR & CONCEPT
RACHAEL SWAIN (SHE / HER), ANGLO-SETTLER
CO-CHOREOGRAPHER
SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY (HE / HIM), BURKINABE / BELGIAN
CULTURAL DRAMATURG & CONCEPT
PATRICK DODSON (HE / HIM), YAWURU
DRAMATURG
HILDEGARD DE VUYST (SHE / HER), BELGIAN
POEMS
EDWIN LEE MULLIGAN (HE / HIM), WALMAJARRI / NYKINA
MEDIA ARTISTS
SONAL JAIN (SHE / HER), INDIA
MRIGANKA MADHUKAILLYA (HE / HIM), ASSAMESE
MUSICAL DIRECTOR & SOUND DESIGNER
MATTHEW FARGHER OAM (HE / HIM), YORKSHIRE / MANX
SONGWRITER
NGAIIRE (SHE / HER), PAPUA NEW GUINEA / AUSTRALIA
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
STEPHEN CURTIS (HE / HIM), ANGLO-SETTLER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
DAMIEN COOPER (HE / HIM), AUSTRALIAN / IRISH / FRENCH / AMERICAN
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER
KELSEY LEE (SHE / HER), ANGLO-SETTLER
CO-DEVISING PERFORMERS
DALISA PIGRAM (SHE / HER), YAWURU / BARDI & MALAY / FILIPINO
SAMUEL HAUTURU BEAZLEY (HE / HIM), NGĀTI KOATA / NGĀTI REHUA / NGĀI TE RANGI / NGĀTI RANGINUI.
EMMA HARRISON (SHE / HER), ANGLO-SETTLER
EDWIN LEE MULLIGAN (HE / HIM), WALMAJARRI/NYKINA
TAJ PIGRAM (HE / HIM), YAWURU/WADJARRI / PITJANTJATJARA / NOONGAR / FILIPINO / SCOTTISH / ENGLISH
MIRANDA WHEEN (SHE / HER), ANGLO-SETTLER
Presented by YIRRAMBOI, in association with Malthouse Theatre. Supported through the Australian Government's Indigenous Languages and Arts program.
Cut the Sky was commissioned by Theater Im Pfalzbau (Germany), Carriageworks (Australia), Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg – KVS (Belgium), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Centre Culturel Tjibaou (New Caledonia).
Cut the Sky has been funded by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and City of Sydney, the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, Australian Research Council, Australian Government Attorney General office — Ministry for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs, Arts Tasmania.
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TICKETS
BlakTix are discounted tickets reserved for global First Nations communities. YIRRAMBOI Fan tickets are for those who want to actively invest in growth of the First Nations arts sector and support First Nations creatives.
DURATION
67 minutes
LOCATION
CONTENT NOTES
With permission, this performance contains the images of people who have passed away.
This performance also contains strobe lighting, haze and smoke effects.
ACCESSIBILITY
Transcripts available on request. Please email yirramboi@melbourne.vic.gov.au.
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