Double Bill: Culture Evolves + Kisiskâciwan.

Double Bill offers two great opportunities to experience the cultural force of indigeneity.

Culture Evolves captures the spirit of traditional Aboriginal ceremony and storytelling by evoking the grandeur and vastness of the Australian landscape. The performance is fused with contemporary dance and music elements which marry exceedingly well. The performance is a gentle, elegant, and inviting evocation of the Bogong Moth ceremony. The audience is able to indulge in the sights, sounds and scents associated with this beautiful cultural heritage.
Photographer: T J Garvie.

The storytelling covers a vast range of emotional territory and explores elements to celebrate as well as the harsh truths related to colonisation and dispossession. Brent Watkins, Sean Ryan, Phillip Egan, Dylan Kerr all provide a raw performance that is intense in its emotive value while exuding a calm and reflective tone.

Kisiskâciwan is a visually astonishing dance piece created by choreographer, performer and producer, Jeanette Kotowich. This performance also has a deliberately contemplative mood which conveys a deeply spiritual connection to landscape. Kotowich’s use of movement is dynamic; she is able to use her body to create beautiful and strangely familiar shapes and gestures, often monumental in scale. Her work is extremely experimental and pushes the boundaries between performance, installation, art, dance and movement.

This work is a profound exploration of culture, ancestry and heritage and is articulated with a visual and acoustic language that is direct, authoritative and inspirational. These are two unique performances that mark important lines of Indigenous history and create two very special events.

Patricia Di Risio 

Photographer: Carla Gottgens