Goose

They always come with the first thunder….. crossing the sky as the storm rises…….enchanted carriages of flight…intertwined with lore…….love,sorrow and despair…..life….death…lifeGoose Lagoon is Baru Kadal’s timeless narrative of a unique love story set in the muddy lagoons of the Top End of Australia during the annual Goose shooting season. This new work is continually being developed for presentation in 2008, incorporating puppetry and traditional dance.Baru Kadal is black thought, black love, black ideals, black dreams.Baru Kadal is a collaboration between Indigenous artists, Gary Lang and Juliette Hubbard. Baru Kadal Dance Theatre provides a forum for Indigenous people to tell their stories on their own terms, enabling them to utilise traditional storytelling techniques through song and dance that provide positive profiles of Indigenous artists, stories and culture. Baru Kadal works with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts practitioners to deliver world class authentic Indigenous performances, to maintain our cultural authority and to add further growth to the Indigenous dance community locally and nationally.We are seeking financial assistance to develop and present our new work, Goose Lagoon at the International UNIMA Puppet Festival in Perth , April 2008. This work will provide paid employment and international professional practice for 14 Indigenous people.Goose Lagoon is an Indigenous specific story that demonstrates our intricate kinship system, our interconnected relationship with the environment through traditional and contemporary dance and music and will revive a Japu clan song and danceline that has not been performed publicly in 70- years. Our role as caretakers of the song and danceline has given us the awesome responsibility of facilitating cultural revival and survival.Goose Lagoon integrates contemporary and traditional choreography with puppetry to deliver this story.Choreographer Gary Lang is a Larrakia man from Darwin, with familial relationships in Yirrkala. Gary is the choreographer and founding co-director of Baru Kadal, a contemporary Indigenous dance company. Most recent works include performances at the STRUT Four on the Floor season, 12th Annual Deadly Awards, the Gurrindji Freedom Day Festival, The Dreaming Festival 2006 and the Darwin Festival 2005. He has toured throughout the world the world as a member of the Bangarra Dance Company, Dance North and the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre Company, performing in the United Kingdom, the United States, Egypt, India, China, Germany, Indonesia, Korea, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong.Artistic Director Juliette Hubbard is a Wadoman/ Gurrindji and Wagadagam woman. She is the founding artistic director of Baru Kadal. Most recent works include performances at the STRUT Four on the Floor season, Gurrindji Freedom Day Festival, The Dreaming Festival 2006 and the Darwin Festival 2005. She has been a performer, writer and co-artistic director with the Juniper Tree Dance Company for 11 years and with the Sometimes Dance Collective for one season. She has learnt and taught traditional Torres Strait Island dance for 18 years.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4