Marrugeku & Dalisa Pigram - T986534653Solo work by Dalisa Pigram, directed by Koen Augustijnen (les ballet C de la B). Gudirr Gudirr is a warning. The guwayi bird calls when the tide is turning - to miss the call is to drown. The animals hear, the land knows. Listen. The language is dying. Young people are hanging themselves. Bulldozers clear our ancestors' land and gas pipes will soon cut the sea where we fish. Gudirr Gudirr is an intimate dance and video work by Dalisa Pigram that draws on a physicality born of her Asian-Indigenous identity. In collaboration with choreographer Koen Augustijnen and acclaimed Indigenous Australian visual artist Vernon Ah Kee, Pigram builds a unique dance language marked by effortless focus and a powerful fluidity. By turns hesitant, restless, resilient and angry, Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from broken past to fragile present, and on to a future still in the making. Gudirr Gudirr calls a warning to Dalisa's people, a community facing the effects of massive industrialisation on nearby traditional lands whilst fighting to ensure their language will survive. But it also calls a warning to us all that our cultures are fragile and our survival is a constant negotiation.Director Goen Augustijnen. | |
| 2 Jul 14 to 3 Jul 14 | The Tramway, Glasgow :: V621 listing details L2084051052 |
T01080238822UK PremiereChoreographer Dalisa Pigram. Choreographer Koen Augustinen. | |
| 30 Oct 13 to 31 Oct 13 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L0965605364 |
