A dark and comedic dance work starring two lost sheep in a slaughter paddock, out to remake Australian mythmaking.
Carly Sheppard and Alisdair Macindoe are intrepid dance makers with seven Green Room awards and a Helpmann between them. In this collaborative piece, they’re on their most transformative journey yet. Both lonely livestock, they’re grazing in a country that’s riding on a sheep’s back (that is trampling the land on the way through), on a quest to find the shepherd who sealed their fate.
Along the way, they wrangle their shared experiences of mysterious and broken familial ancestry—leaping into invented histories and worlds. Mixed inheritances become accountable rites, living kinships and humane symbols. The consequences of Australia’s colonial invasion, with its devastation of ecology, First Nations peoples, knowledges, and lifeways, is led into new pastures. Finding themselves driven by the question: how can we finish the stories we need to tell and leave behind a more fertile future?
Flock to it.
June 5 – 7
artshouse.com.au
