Where the salt water meets the fresh water
Jannawi Dance Clan
Garrigarang Badu is a new large scale female lead First Nations contemporary dance work in Dharug language, created and choreographed by Peta Strachan, artistic director of Jannawi Dance Clan.
Garrigarrang Badu invites audiences to bear witness to the strength, resilience, and power of the Dharug Matriarch. Garrigarrang (meaning salt water) and Badu (fresh water) tells the stories of the ancestral women where the salt and fresh water meet on Dharug land. Dharug country spans the mountains to the sea – from Wiradjuri land on the west of the Blue Mountains to the Eastern fringes of the Dharug Nation, the Western Sydney region in the geographical heart of Sydney.
Garrigarrang Badu draws on a fusion of contemporary and traditional choreographic and music forms, informed by Jannawi’s dance practice. 15-songs and dances, each portraying the lives of Dharug women living off the land; offer a deep exploration of healing and spiritual connection. Together, they celebrate mother earth and her many gifts, providing modern audiences an ancestral awareness of connection to country and spiritual journey back to land & culture – of healing & connection.
In elevating and amplifying female voices and narratives, Garrigarrang Badu plays homage to the intrinsic role women played in shaping, enriching and enshrining the Dharug nation over millennia. Directed/Choreographed by artistic director Peta Strachan in collaboration with Jannawi Dance Clan dancers & consultation with Dharug Elders/ Knowledge Holders.
Presented by Carriageworks and Sydney Festival
Commissioned by Carriageworks
Executively Produced by FORM Dance Projects in collaboration with Arts & Cultural Exchange
Tickets will be released later this year.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHY
PETA STRACHAN
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
LEA FRANCIS
CO-CHOREOGRAPHY, CAST AND TRADITIONAL VOCALS
ABIGAIL DELANEY
AMY FLANNERY
AROHA PEHI
BUIA DAVID
GAPALA YUNUPINGU
HANNAH HANSEN
JUSTINE EVELYEN
KATIE LESLIE
KAWANNA SMALLWOOD
SERENE YUNUPINGU
SHANA O’BRIEN
SOUND DESIGN
DAMIAN ROBINSON, WICKED BEAT RECORDS
LIGHTING AND PRODUCTION MANAGER
PAUL OSBORNE, CATAPULT CREATIVE
LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
MATTHEW DOYLE
LANGUAGE AND VOCALIST
THE LATE RICHARD GREEN
LEAD VOCALIST AND COMPOSITION
DYAGULA
COSTUMES AND CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
PAULINE STRACHAN
PETA STRACHAN
DJUWAKAN JEREMY MARIKA
GAPALA YUNUPINGU
SERENE YUNUPINGU
PROP DESIGN
GOVINDA WEBSTER, PINK CACTUS PROPS
CULTURAL ADVISOR
JULIE WEBB
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FORM DANCE PROJECTS
Presented by Carriageworks and Sydney Festival
Commissioned by Carriageworks
Executively Produced by FORM Dance Projects in collaboration with Arts & Cultural Exchange
This work has been supported by Carriageworks, Sydney Festival, The Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts program, Catapult Creative, Urban Theatre Projects, Blacktown Arts and Blacktown City Council, Arts & Cultural Exchange, BlakDance, City Of Parramatta, Vivcourt, Lucy Guiren Inc, Moogahlin Performing Arts, Sydney Olympic Park Authority and the Boorooberongal Clan of the Dharug Nation.
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