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.
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.
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.
Contact
For inquries about the Songlines of the Western Desert. Alive with the Dreaming! project, please Project Coordinator Diana James:
- Diana.James@anu.edu.au