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Marrugeku's Burning Daylight is a highly innovative, multimedia production incorporating contemporary Indigenous dance, cinema, physical theatre, live music and karaoke. Developed and set in the remote town of Broome in the far North West of Western Australia, situated closer to Asia than Australia's urban centres. Perhaps best described as a contemporary Asian/Indigenous 'Western', Burning Daylight is set from dusk till dawn outside a pub on a Broome-style Karaoke night. A series of contemporary dance scenes express the friction, local humour and cultural collision in the streets at night in a part of town known as the Bronx. These songs are interspersed with Karaoke songs sung from the Asian style bar by the talented line-up. Each song is accompanied by a short Karaoke video filmed in the genre of a 'noodle western'. Each live performer on stage has a 'ghost' or 'double' on screen with storylines echoing between scenes on stage and screen, as well as between past and present. Humorous and immediately recognisable, yet with underlying political commentary, the short Karaoke videos explore classic interracial melodramas against the backdrop of the Australian Government's past racist policies. As Burning Daylight develops, the weaving of the past and present becomes layered, resulting in a poetic, tender and raw portrait of one of the world's most hybrid regions. Marrugeku Founded in 1995 Marrugeku creates large-scale intercultural works with professional artists in remote and small town Aboriginal communities. Marrugeku’s unique fusion of contemporary and traditional Indigenous dance practices, circus, video and theatre is facilitated over lengthy rehearsal processes in community environments. Marrugeku is at the leading edge of contemporary intercultural performance, each visually spectacular production is designed to tour regional and remote communities as well as urban Australian and international arts festivals. After seven years of working in Western Arnhem Land Marrugeku shifted its base to Broome, Western Australia; a diverse and complex community with an extraordinary history of cultural relations between the local Aboriginal and immigrant Japanese, Chinese and Malay communities. Marrugeku develops its intercultural productions in situ in remote communities in order to process a vital, complex and raw portrait of contemporary Aboriginal and multicultural experience in Australia. All over the world young people now live out such complex identities, haunted by countries or traditions their parents left behind whilst embracing a contemporary world. Burning Daylight speaks to the raw humanity behind the complexities of diversity in any community. Contact: Rachael Swain
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