About
Kungkarangkalpa: Seven Sisters Songline is a performance of the ancient Western Desert epic song saga of the Seven Sisters presented by AṈANGU Dancers from the APY Lands in partnership with the Australian National University ARC Linkage project: Alive With Dreaming! Songlines of the Western Desert and the Centenary of Canberra at the National Museum of Australia as a celebration of Australia’s vibrant indigenous culture. Watch the performace live on the 2nd March.
Senior desert dancers of Kungkarangkalpa: the Seven Sisters Songline, will fly from the red sands of Central Australia to alight by the lake for a series of performances at the National Museum of Australia. By singing up the living cultural routes of trade, story, dance, art and music that criss-cross our country, they will symbolically join the nation’s capital to the nation’s heart.
Background from Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director
The story of the 7 sisters is one of this country’s foundation stories. It connects so much of this landmass through the storylines that crisscross the country. It talks about relationships between men and women, masculine desire and feminine caring, family bonds, the unexpected powers of magic, and the extraordinary power of our landscape to be created through story, song, dance and painting. Where ever you go throughout the world there are similar stories of the Pleiades and the 7 sisters. It has been a privilege and an honour to come on this journey and I look forward to what the next part of it will be as it mature into 2016.
Cast
- Singers
Inawinytji WilliamsonTraditional Libretto Writer & Senior Inma Custodian
Witjiti GeorgeFregon, Senior Lawman & Inma Director
Nyurpaya KaikaSenior Inma Custodian & Dancer
Illuwanti KenAmata, Senior Inma Singer
Josephine MickPipalyatjara, Senior Inma Singer
Niningka LewisErnabella, Senior Inma Singer
Kunmanara(Sadly missed, dec 2015)Fregon, Senior Inma Singer- Dancers
Tapaya EdwardsLead male dancer
Mary PanAmata, Senior Inma Dancer & Teacher
Renita StanleyErnabella, Senior Inma Dancer
Tjunkaya TapayaErnabella,Senior Inma Dancer
Pantjiti LewisErnabella, Senior Inma Dancer
Carlene ThompsonErnabella, Senior Inma Dancer
Rene KulitjaUluru, Senior Inma Dancer
Tjungura GeorgeFregon, Inma Dancer- Aṉangu Cast Support
Marita BakerKanypi, Aṉanguku Arts, Aṉangu Assistant Manager
Sally ScalesMelbourne, Interpreter, Cast assistant(pictured with her Mother Josephine Mick)- Aṉangu Media Assistants
Kukika EdwardsErnabella, Media trainee, Translator
Anne ThompsonErnabella, Media trainee, Translator
Credits
- Artistic Director
- Wesley Enoch
- Songlines Project Director & Interpreter
- Diana James, ANU
- Producer
- Helen Healy, HHO Events
- Project Manager
- Jo Victoria
- Songline Libretto
- Inawinytji Williamson
- Aṉangu Media Assistants
- Kukika Edwards & Anne Thompson
- Aṉangu Cast Assistants
- Marita Baker& Sallie Scales
- NPYWC costume manager
- Jo Foster
- Senior Indigenous Curator, Songlines Project
- Margo Neale, NMA
- Assistant Curator
- Tessa Keenan, NMA
- Production Manager
- Patrice Wallace
- Stage Manager
- Sarah Pritchard
- Designer
- Tony Found
- Projection Designer, OPTIKAL BLOC
- Craig Wilkinson
- Projection Designer, OPTIKAL BLOC
- Steven Brodie
- Set Designer and Builder
- Josh McIntosh
- Sound Designer
- Anthony Brumpton
- Projection Photography
- Barry Skipsey, Sarah James, Iain Morton
- Projection Filmmaker
- Tony Collins
- Projection Translation
- Diana James
- Live Webcast
- Tilt Vision, Matt Davis
Partners / Sponsors
Songlines of the Western Desert. Alive with the Dreaming!
A cutting edge cross-cultural collaborative and inter-disciplinary research project between the Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara peoples and the national cultural heritage institutions of the Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia.
Inspired by Nganyinytja OAM:
Kulilaya, ngura milmilpatjara; Tjukurpa alatjitu!
Listen this land is sacred; Alive with the Dreaming!
The vision is to increase national recognition and understanding of Indigenous Songlines as complex pathways of spiritual, ecological, economic, cultural and ontological knowledge. A radically new approach to the integration of Indigenous and western knowledge in understanding and managing our shared cultural and natural environments.
See the full list of people involved with the project.
Contact
Purchase tickets to the performaces at 8pm Friday, March 1st 2013 or 8pm Saturday, March 2nd 2013 see the Ticketek website, call Ticketek on call 132849, visit any Ticketek outlet or purchase at the door on the night.
For inquries about the venu please contact the National Museum Australia.
For press and other inquires about the performance please contact contact Jo Victoria at jo.victoria@anu.edu.au
For inquries about the Songlines of the Western Desert. Alive with the Dreaming! project, please Project Coordinator Diana James:
- Diana.James@anu.edu.au
- Phone
- 02 61250338