by Shakthi
For the first time in a long time, we can take a breath. Our sold-out season of This City is a Body at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum is over – and we can honestly state that CuriousWorks has never done something which generated so much stunning, positive feedback from so many different people before. It’s not often you get to put on a show in one of Sydney’s oldest and most beautiful buildings – a show that challenges and celebrates what the city is built on. It’s even more rare to be able to share yourThis City is a Body was at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum in 2007.
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A contemporary dance piece about longing and memory.
Dancer: Paul Cordeiro
Filmed by: Vincent Tay, Iqbal Barkat, Elias Nohra
Editor: Shakthidharan
A video layering the experience of William Dawes on the first fleet to Australia with more recent migrant experiences to the country.
Dancers: Jenni White, Paul Cordeiro
by Arvijit Sarkar
Original article can be found here.
Spinning outside the artistic – and racial – boundaries“We wanted to explore what happens when these
things come into contact with each other. We talked a lot about that
and what came out was the idea that everything we have in common in
Sydney is our identity as migrants.” The 23-year-old set up the group
Curious Works to bring together “people who don’t usually meet each
other, ideas that don’t usually come together and community groups
that don’t normally speak to each other”. “To the extent that we could
manage it, they are a bunch of strangers in a room trying to find out
common points between each other. It was about people stepping outside
their boundaries, artistic as well as cultural.”
This film was made by the Villawood Koori Kids with the support of CuriousWorks as trainers, mentors and facilitators. Their work was part of The Migrant Project performances and is part of This City is a Body: The Migrant Project Film.
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