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Bangarra Dance Theatre Yuldea

Must Close 9 Sep
Playhouse, QPAC
1 hour 5 minutes
(no interval, subject to change without notice)
$54 - $104 *
* A transaction fee of $7.20 applies.

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Concession, Student, Youth, Groups, Schools

We are memory.
Glimpsed through shimmering light on water.
A story place where black oaks stand watch.
Carved into trees and painted on rocks.
North – South – East – West.
A brittle landscape of life and loss.

At Yuldea, stories hover in the sky. The stars reveal a divine Songline, stretching between earth and sky.

From the incomparable storytellers of Bangarra Dance Theatre comes a major new work. 

Frances Rings’ first work as Artistic Director is a ceremonial affirmation of history and heritage. Yuldea awakens the earth and sky worlds to tell the story of the Aṉangu people of the Great Victorian Desert.

Yuldea explores the moment traditional life collided with the industrial ambition of a growing nation. In 1917, the two halves of the Transcontinental Railway met at the precious water soak on the edge of the Nullarbor, Yuldi Kapi.

Great metal serpents scarred the landscape, draining all water from the sacred soak. Then came the black mist of the atomic testing at Maralinga, forcing the Aṉangu people to leave their desert homelands where they had lived for millennia.

Now memories lay scattered, like the Aṉangu people, displaced from their home. Remnants of colonial progress are swallowed by sand. But the Aṉangu endure, determined to keep strong their knowledge systems of land and sky, honouring their eternal bonds of kinship between people and place.

Yuldea features original music by Leon Rodgers with featured songs by award-winning electronic pop duo Electric Fields (Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross). Designers Jacob Nash (Set), Jennifer Irwin (Costume) and Karen Norris (Lighting) create a desert world on stage.

Presented by QPAC and Bangarra Dance Theatre

Creatives

  • Choreographer Frances Rings
  • Set Designer Elizabeth Gadsby
  • Costume Designer Jennifer Irwin
  • Lighting Designer Karen Norris
  • Composer Leon Rodgers
  • Guest Composers Electric Fields
  • Mirning Cultural Consultant Clem Lawrie
  • Yalata Cultural Consultant Maureen Smart
  • Cultural Astronomer Karlie Noon
  • Aerial and Acrobatic Creative Consultant Joshua Thomson
  • Cultural Authority Representatives from Yalata Aṉangu Aboriginal Community Council

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