'Cut the Sky is a new dance theatre work that explores the relationship between humanity and the environment from an indigenous point of view at a time of global environmental change.' (Marrugeku website)
Premiered at the Perth International Arts Festival, 27 February - 1 March 2015.
Concept: Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain.
Poems: Edwin Lee Mulligan.
Director: Rachael Swain.
Choreographers: Dalisa Pigram and Serge Aimé Coulibaly.
Dramaturg: Hildegard de Vuyst.
Musical Director: Matthew Fargher.
Media designers & visual concept: Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya (Desire Machine Collective).
Set and Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis.
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper.
Cultural Adviser: Patrick Dodson.
Cast/co-creators: Miranda Wheen,Ngaire Pigram,Eric Avery,Josh Mu,Dalisa Pigram, and Edwin Lee Mulligan.
Musicians and vocals in recordings: Lorrae Coffin, Konrad Park, Kelly Ottaway, Andry Sculthorpe, Michael Fortescue, and Ruth Langford.
Backing Vocals: Kartanya Maynard.
Voice of Bill Grayden: Peter Docker.
Engineer and production: Don Bate.
'Throughout her stage and screen career, the actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf used the English she only began learning in earnest at about age 11 for diplomatic reasoning. She spoke three Indigenous languages too. Born circa 1967 in the large remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjungka, 100 kilometres south-east of Fitzroy Crossing in the Western Australian Kimberley region, Lawford-Wolf would go on to appear in films such as Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, released in 2002, playing Maude, the mother of two of three little girls stolen from their families, based on a true story that chimed with her own: her father, who worked on a cattle farm, had forcibly been removed from his parents too.' (Introduction)
'Throughout her stage and screen career, the actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf used the English she only began learning in earnest at about age 11 for diplomatic reasoning. She spoke three Indigenous languages too. Born circa 1967 in the large remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjungka, 100 kilometres south-east of Fitzroy Crossing in the Western Australian Kimberley region, Lawford-Wolf would go on to appear in films such as Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, released in 2002, playing Maude, the mother of two of three little girls stolen from their families, based on a true story that chimed with her own: her father, who worked on a cattle farm, had forcibly been removed from his parents too.' (Introduction)
