2024
First Nations
2024 Subscription Season
TR+
Dance
Produced by Performing Lines Tas

Charcoal

Keia McGrady
27 - 28 Sep 2024 (2 performances)
Fri 27 Sep 2024 7:00 pm
Sat 28 Sep 2024 7:00 pm
Studio Theatre


Charcoal explores the embodiment and physicality of caring for country through visual art and movement. An interdisciplinary dance work embodies the fire that forms it. Charcoal investigates the impacts of land management or lack thereof, as well as the importance of First Nations stewardship.


Keia McGradyis a Githabul, Migunberri – Yugumbeh woman. Keia is a multi-faceted artist and choreographer, performing at festivals and events such as Junction Arts Festival, 10 Days on the Island, Panama Festival, Perth Festival, Sydney Contemporary and more. With the desire of truth telling through movement Keia has performed in seasons such as Taree Sansdbury’s MI:WI season at QPAC, Mel O’callaghan exhibition Centre of the Centre, Jo Loyds work Collision, and recently joining the national tour with Karul projects for their show Silence.
Keia has a passion in guiding the next generation through the arts with song writing and movement workshops. Facilitating and performing in Assembly197 educational program Trolls, Drill Performance Company's Dance Nexus program and facilitating songwriting and movement workshops throughout lutruwita (Tasmania) and Ieramugadu


Olivia Adams is a proud Wulli Wulli woman from and based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Olivia graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Dance from the Queensland University of Technology and has since built a career as an independent artist, dancer, choreographer and producer. Olivia has spent most of 2023 performing in Karul Project’s 15 stop national tour for SILENCE while also working as a producer for BlakDance. Over the years she has also performed with Digi Youth Arts, Polytoxic, and assisted with the delivery of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s youth program Rekindling in regional communities. Last year Olivia had the exciting opportunity to perform in Germany for Documenta 15 as a part of Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy, present at Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance symposium in Calgary and begin the development of her first full length work Matriarchs. Olivia is proud to work in and on works that champion First Nations voices and stories and is passionate about continuing the practice of healing and storytelling through dance.


Jason James strongly focuses on new Australian works and projects with social benefits. He has won three Tasmanian Theatre Awards for lighting design: Archipelago Production's The Maids in 2022, Terrapin's Big Baby in 2015, and Hobart Rep's Speaking in Tongues in 2020.  Recent designs include Amy's Tattoo, Bingo Stay on the Ball Ladies for Blue Cow, The Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens, Past the Shallows for Archipelago, and To Carry To Hold for Mature Artist Dance Experience. mediamixed.com


Multimedia artist and composer Joshua Santospirito lives and works in Nipaluna. He has toured across Europe and Australia with his unusual brand of sound-making. He regularly performs in Bing/Santospirito with violinist Natalya Bing, a project that jams together classical and noise music for audiovisual performances for major festivals and underground venues. 

 

Noah Johnson is a black multidisciplinary artist, born in lutruwita (Hobart), they first began painting as a way to visually represent their creative mind and their deep roots to their African American culture which paved the way for their love of fashion and consequently sewing & design. Noah has a successful business ONEOFONEARCHIVE, an upcycling slow fashion label which came to fruition when they were 16 years old. Their values lie in sustainability and storytelling through their textile art while they use a mixture of simple to intricate design choices to convey that.



Jess is an arts administrator and stage manager based in lutruwita. Her work in stage management naturally evolved from operations and logistics experience working in music and arts festivals across the country. Jess has been mentored in stage management by a collection of to-die-for femme stage managers who have shared their strong passions for theatre safety and risk management, consent practices and unwavering ethical codes. Jess’s experience in stage management spans across outdoor live music, youth musical theatre, circus, contemporary dance, outdoor theatrical performances and traditional stage theatre.

Special thanks to previous collaborators, artist/dancer Amarina (Githabul, Gaangalu peoples) supported by visual artist, D Harding (Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples), Courtney Scheu and Githabul, Migunberri - Yugumbeh artist/dancer Alinta McGrady and a special thanks also to Performing Lines Tasmania.

This project received support from the BlakDance residency and Dana Waranara Digital programs.

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Duration

55 mins (no interval)

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