SILENCE
BlakDance presents
SILENCE

8 May 2024 to 11 May 2024

Is this the Commonwealth of Australia? Yes? This is your Landlords speaking!

Through raw physicality, humourous skits, and a power anthem soundtrack, we disrupt the silence of a 250+ year struggle. The same questions echoed through generations. SILENCE pulls the Treaty conversation out from under the rug and slams it back on the table. Because the conversation about a TREATY cannot be silenced in Australia.

Funny and irreverent and reverberating with power… If you think you know Australian contemporary dance, you haven’t seen SILENCE. With thrashing live drumming and a raw aesthetic, Thomas E.S. Kelly has combined intimate storytelling with significant moments in Australian history as SILENCE interprets an ongoing conversation for a new generation.

There’s SILENCE between the stars as the Emu travels across the night sky. There’s SILENCE in the dancer’s energy when they hit the cut, the rupture between rhythms and movement creating a vibrational glitch for the spirit world to enter. It’s also the deafening SILENCE under White noise. 

We have marched across our Country. We have had promises made and promises broken. We stand on a stage, to the beating of a live drum kit, as bodies thrash through white noise to continue the conversation. Towards action. Towards resolution. 

Jhindu Lawrie’s audacious rock drumming full of dynamism, grunge and raw power calls back to Thomas E.S. Kelly’s choreography, in brash, yet vulnerable and visceral scenes, with Kelly’s trademark charm and wit interspersed in between.

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Venue
Sydney Opera House - The Studio
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Tuesday 8 April - 7.30pm
Wednesday 9 April - 7:30pm
Thursday 10 April - 7:30pm
Friday 11 April - 7:30pm
Saturday 12 April - 1.30pm, 7.30pm
Monday 14 April - 6.30pm
Tuesday 15 April - 7.30pm
Wednesday 16 April - 1.30pm, 7.30pm
Thursday 17 April - 7.30pm
Saturday 19 April - 1.30pm, 7.30pm
Monday 21 April - 6.30pm
Tuesday 22 April - 7.30pm

$38 - $322
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