Garabari Tickets
About Garabari
Bodies, light and sound entangle and loop to reveal hidden meanings in a reimagined doof inspired by ancient garabari (Corroboree).
Across the globe, First Nations cultures have harnessed the enduring power of rituals to transmit knowledge. Countless generations have undergone rites of passage that have left them changed – closer to others, and more attuned to themselves.
By returning to these unchanging rituals, we are changed as we grow in wisdom and stature in the community.
Garabari draws from this rich well of meaning to create a celebratory dance work that plugs you into this wellspring of energies.
Created by Australian dance’s fast-rising star Joel Bray, and supported by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation as Chunky Move’s inaugural Choreographer in Residence, Garabari has been crafted in close collaboration with the Wiradjuri community of Wagga Wagga.
Garabari features lavish costumes by Wiradjuri fashion designer Denni Francisco, driving beats by Byron Scullin and otherworldly lighting by Katie Sfetkidis.
This ambitious work invites you to join five Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers to gather, to listen and to share the beat.
Run time
1hr 45min
Start date
December 1st, 2022
End date
December 10th, 2022
Categories
Age
Recommended Age: 14yrs+ Please note: This is a roving performance with moments of invited participation.This show is mostly standing; limited seating available for those who are unable to stand for long periods.
Venue
Arts House, Melbourne
Accessibility
Accessibility varies event by event - please contact the venue via phone: (03) 9322 3720, or email: artshouse@melbourne.vic.gov.au to discuss access requirements prior to booking. Guide dogs and assistance animals are welcome at Arts House.
Directions
GETTING TO THE VENUE
BY TRAM: Route 57 (high floor trams only) Stop 12, North Melbourne Town Hall. Please note, this is not a wheelchair accessible tram
WALKING: Arts House is 2.5km from Flinders Street Station, approximately 35 minute walk and 850m from Queen Victoria Markets, approximately 11 minute walk
BY TRAIN: Arts House is 1.1km from North Melbourne Train Station, approximately 16 minute walk or 1.2km from Flagstaff Station, approximately 15 minute walk
BY CAR: There is limited paid on-street parking on Queensberry and Errol Streets. There are two accessible on-street car parking spaces on Queensberry Street (150m to our accessible Errol Street entrance) for holders of a Parking Permit for people with Disabilities.
More information about Garabari
Choreographer/Director: Joel Bray
Performers: Chandler Connell, Luke Currie-Richardson, Tra Mi Dinh, Mason Kelly, Amelia Jean O’Leary
Understudy: Karlia Cook
Project Elder: Uncle Christopher Kirkbright
About the Artists
Naarm-based Joel Bray is a proud Wiradjuri man who has danced in Europe and Israel with Jean-Claude Gallotta, Kolben Dance, Machol Shalem, FRESCO Dance Company, Roy Assaf and Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor, and in Australia with Chunky Move.
Joel’s intimate dance-theatre encounters in unorthodox spaces spring from his Wiradjuri heritage, and use humour to engage audiences in rituals about sex, history, trauma and healing. His experimental work challenges white audience expectations of Aboriginal performance and blur the colonial silos of art genre.
His works Biladurang, Dharawungara, Daddy, Considerable Sexual License and I Liked It, BUT have toured to the Brisbane, Sydney, Darwin, Midsumma, Auckland, LiveWorks and Dance Massive Festivals, and to the Arts Centre Melbourne and Canberra Theatre Centre.
Joel was the 2019 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow and this research into Ancient Wiradjuri ceremonial practices continues, in collaboration with Wiradjuri elders, to inform all of Joel’s work. Joel is the inaugural Chunky Move Choreographer-in-Residence, a member of the Melbourne Fringe Board and was a 2020 Sydney Dance Company New Breed choreographer. Joel is currently making a multi-channel video work commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia called Giraru Galing Ganhagirri (The Wind Will Bring the Rain).
Chunky Move creates bold, visually striking and genre defying dance works. These works are experiments that merge the body with other forms, explore new ideas and materials and respond to different spaces and contexts. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Antony Hamilton and Executive Director Kristy Ayre, Chunky Move plays a crucial role in driving the artform of dance forward in Australia and beyond. Artists and audiences are at the heart of our company, expressed in our dense program of major works, commissions, residencies, workshops and public classes. Our collaborations, partnerships and projects aim to extend artform influence in the public realm and increase the visibility of contemporary dance as an everyday artform.
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