NGALPUN MUDTH (OUR HOME)

NGALPUN MUDTH (OUR HOME)
Image: Photo: Branco Gaica

NAISDA Dance College will inject Sydney audiences with a spirited shot of Australia’s newest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent in their upcoming showcase, Ngalpun Mudth (Our Home).

Hitting Carriageworks for a limited season this December, the works of nine professional and two student choreographers will be performed by over 40 developing artists in a pulsing celebration of their vibrant culture.

Production director Raymond D. Blanco, himself a NAISDA graduate, says the idea for the showcase was born from a desire to capture the rawness and complexity of the idea of home, as both a place of refuge and potential site of trauma.

“There are dark and light moments. Obviously with home, some people come from broken backgrounds so they’re exploring that, and how they came out of it with positivity,” he says.

Touching on the full gamut of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and experiences, Blanco insists the show breaks from traditional Indigenous dance companies, bound by an infectious current of “raw electric energy”.

“You will be embraced by it. It’s almost like going into an Aboriginal community and they adopt you into their family, so you have a place in society. You can’t help but be part of the show.” (EJ)

Dec 11-14, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh, $10-35, 8571 9099, carriageworks.com.au

BY EMILY JONES

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