WE RESPECT, WE CONNECT, WE DANCE, WE BELONG (WDWB): Belle Budden
ARTISTS: Belle Budden, Lara Lei, Indira Arnold, Camille Noter, Kelly Knox, Teleshia Togo, Sherleyah Vale, Danni Dyall, Eve White, Kirrilly Saunders, Yamiee Turnbal Currie, Michelle Guthrie
LOCATION: Pottsville Community Hall, Pottsville Beach
The site is located along the creek and sandy landscape, allowing participants to move, gather and dance directly on Country, strengthening cultural connection, respect and embodied listening to place.
WHEN: Saturday 27th, June
LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpAuYyr0RQ
WDWB is a public, participatory dance workshop and performance inviting audiences (mob and community members) to connect deeply with Country, kinship and spirit through movement.
The project includes:
A 2-hour active workshop culminating at sunset
Local Aboriginal stalls
A KDD presentation of contemporary cultural works
These works share traditional and contemporary stories of Aboriginal women in relationship with Country.
WDWB supports cultural exchange, wellbeing and community connection through embodied practice on Bundjalung Country. Dancing on Country supports healing, strengthens relationships between people and place, and honours Aboriginal cultural knowledge systems that have sustained wellbeing for thousands of years. The project invites audiences in Pottsville and the wider Tweed Shire to participate in shared kinship and respect.
TIMELINE
1pm: Market Stalls
3pm: Bunyarabugalma – movement workshop
4:30pm: Smoking ceremony
5:30pm: Kinship Doobai Dancers presentation
