Cut the Sky
“Seventy minutes of mind-blowing intercultural and interdisciplinary performance!” – ArtsHub
Join us at Carriageworks this July for an unforgettable experience that will leave you breathless. Cut the Sky by Marrugeku features stunning choreography, multimedia elements, and poignant themes of climate change and Indigenous resilience, making this a show not to be missed.
Discover the epic perspectives of dream catcher Edwin Lee Mulligan as he sees his Nyikina and Walmajarri Country through the eyes of his totems, accompanied by songs from Ngaiire and Tanya Tagaq. Cut the Sky asks what it takes to dream a different future together.
Images by Bryony Jackson and Marina Levitskaya
Concession: $40+ bf
Full: $50+ bf
*a $5 booking fee applies to all transactions.
The performance runs for 67 minutes with no interval.
Cut the Sky has been funded by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, Australian Research Council, Australian Government Attorney General office — Ministry for the Arts, Department of Foreign Affairs, Arts Tasmania, Arts NSW and City of Sydney.
Cut the Sky was commissioned by Theater Im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen, (Germany) / Carriageworks (Australia) / Koninklijke VlaKVS Schouwburg – KVS (Belgium) / Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Centre Culturel Tjibaou Nouméa (New Caledonia).
Cut the Sky is collaboratively created by:
Creative and Cultural team
Concept: Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain with Patrick Dodson
Director: Rachael Swain
Choreographers: Dalisa Pigram and Serge Aimé Coulibaly
Cultural Dramaturg: Patrick Dodson
Dramaturg: Hildegard de Vuyst
Poems: Edwin Lee Mulligan
Visual concept & Media Artists: Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya
Set and Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis
Musical Director: Matthew Fargher
Songwriter & recorded vocals: Ngaiire
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper
Associate Lighting Director: Kelsey Lee
Cinematographer and video production: Sam James
Rain effect designer: Joey Ruigrok Van Der Werven
Co-devising Performers 2024-25: Samuel Hauturu Beazley, Emmanuel James Brown, Emma Harrison, Dalisa Pigram, Ngaire Pigram, Taj Pigram, Miranda Wheen
Previous co-devising Performers (2015-18) Eric Avery, Josh Mu, Edwin Lee Mulligan
Production
Production Manager and lighting operator: Aiden Brennan
Sound and video production and operation:Declan Barber
Company Stage Manager: Ruben Neman
Producing
Producer: Natalie Smith
With permission, this performance contains the images of people who have passed away. This performance also contains strobe light, haze and smoke effects.
Marrugeku is Australia’s leading Indigenous intercultural dance theatre company based in Yawuru buru (Broome – WA) and the land of the Gadigal (Sydney – NSW), led by co-artistic directors, choreographer Dalisa Pigram and director/dramaturg Rachael Swain. Together, over almost three decades, they have collaborated with diverse artists to develop new intercultural dance languages that build bridges between remote and urban dance communities and Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
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