Burning Daylight

An explosive yet haunting spectacular, large scale dance theatre from Broome based Marrugeku

Its Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip hop meets Japanese love song. Closing time and they take it outside. A lone cowboy blows into town, stirring its ghosts for a long and wild night, as past and present dance it out on the street.

The physicality and raw energy of performers is combined with tenderness and beauty. Pumping beats and rhymes create a vibrant contemporary sound live on stage that contrast with gentle guitar strums and melodies evoking outback campfires.

This spectacular high energy production incorporates old and new forms to conjure an image of todays Broome the traces of its past as wild frontier town still real, but also mythologised in glossy tourist brochures. Like the rest of the world, a place where young people live out complex identities spanning traditional cultures and globalised YouTube everything.

Whips crack, geishas perform ceremony, pearl fisherman take to the sea. Karaoke singers croon and a hip hop MC raps, while memories flicker on screen of their grandparents generations experiences: White Australia policy deportations, and laws against inter-racial marriage.

Presented by Salamanca Arts Centre & Mobile States.

Creative Team: Director: Rachael Swain | Co -Choreographers: Serge Aime Coulibaly & Dalisa Pigram | Designer: Joey Ruigrok van der Werven | Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton | Dramaturg: David Pledger | Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis l Lighting Designer: Geoff Cobham l Musical Director: Matthew Fargher l songs by : Amanda Brown.

Performers: Trevor Jamieson, Dalisa Pigram, Kathy Cogill, Owen Maher, Sermsah Bin Saad, Antonia Djiagween & Yumi Umiumare Musicians: Dazastah, Lorrae Coffin & Justin Gray.

For more information please visit http://www.salarts.org.au/Files/01279-Burning-Daylight.asp.