The dance company is rare in that it looks at contemporary issues from Indigenous and non-Indigenous viewpoints. If those viewpoints clash, that’s the point
In 2014, self-taught Walmajarri-Nyikina painter and poet Edwin Lee Mulligan was talked into becoming a dancer. The cross-cultural dance company Marrugeku from coastal Broome in Western Australia had travelled 400km east to remote Fitzroy Crossing, seeking untapped talent.
Derby-born Mulligan, who grew up in Yakanarra and spent his earliest years in bough sheds and tents among “the last of the nomads”, had many stories to tell. For instance Mulligan knew from his elders that spilt dingo blood had sustained the earth and created red ochre; he knew that floating water lilies when eaten “remind us we are children under one sun”.
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