SILENCE is an urgent call for TREATY, highlighting the stories and struggles of BLAK communities since colonisation. Through SILENCE, Karul Projects take their place in the lineage of fierce First Nations makers calling for Sovereignty.

Choreographed and written by Thomas E.S. Kelly (Karul Projects), SILENCE is a powerful dance performance, featuring seven performers on a stage slowly engulfed in dirt, representing the call for Land Back.

Dynamic live percussion drives the dancers' exploration of past, present, alternate realities and dreamscapes of the milky way and Murun, the emu in the sky.

SILENCE is about the space in between. The conversations not being heard and the responses that are muted. Through the beating of a drum, bodies thrash through frequencies to uncover what lies in the SILENCE.

We have marched across Country. We have had promises made and promises broken. In SILENCE we pull the unresolved conversations from under the rug and slam them back on the table. Because the conversation about a TREATY will never be silenced.

Created By Karul Projects

Doors open 10min prior | 60min duration, no interval

Ages 12+

Choreographer / Writer / Performer: Thomas E.S. Kelly, Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri

and Ni-Vanuatu

Performer: Taree Sansbury, Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjerri

Performer: Benjin Maza, Yidindji, Birri Gubba, Miriam Mer and Tanna Island

Performer: Keia McGrady, Githabul Migunberri- Yugumbeh

Performer: Glory Tuohy-Daniell, Indjalandji Dhidhanu and Alyewarre

Performer: Olivia Adams, Wulli Wulli

Percussion Composer / Performer: Jhindu-Pedro Lawrie, Mirning and Wuthathi

Producer: BlakDance

More information: https://www.blakdance.org.au/p...

Box Office opens 1 hour prior to event.

Doors to the theatre will open from 15min prior to show start.

There is a later comer period of entry approximately 10mins after show start.

Limited street parking, and some areas have limited time zones, to be considered if travelling by car.

The bar to The Odeon will be open pre and post show in the foyer.

No alcohol is permitted inside the theatre.
Water based haze, strobe lighting and dirt will be used in this performance.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are advised that this show references people who have died.