Tongues of Stone

In April 2010 collaborators Dorita Hannah, Russell Scoones and Carol Brown, return to Perth, Western Australia for a further development period towards Tongues of Stone.  Working in collaboration with STRUT and Curtin University, the creative team will develop the choreography and design towards a major production in early 2011. 

As a public dance-event staged within Perth’s urban environment Tongues of Stone will combine movement, architecture, music and multi-media to reveal the hidden and forgotten parts of the city to passers-by. It will be created for a diverse mobile public who will either happen upon performance moments, embedded in the folds of the city’s fabric, or follow an itinerary guided by a chorus that links these thematically connected, unexpected encounters and enchantments. 

Fed by the rivers of local and mythological stories that form the ephemeral strata of urban memories, Tongues of Stone will vocalise (through song) and embody (through dance) hidden narratives and spaces (through design). Making urban space speak through performance, it will mobilize female energies to challenge the masculinity of a city built by construction and mining companies. 

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