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when: 29 - 31 August 2024 | venue: IMB Theatre - Illawarra Performing Arts Centre | cost: $45-$55 | address: 32 Burelli Street | website: https://merrigong.com.au/shows/jurrungu-ngan-ga-straight-talk/ | tickets: https://merrigong.com.au/shows/jurrungu-ngan-ga-straight-talk/
published: 12 Jul 2024, 5 min read
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Challenging, joyful and deeply affecting, Merrigong Theatre Company presents Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 29 to 31 August 2024.
Throbbing with sadness, anger, joy and resistance Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] is a powerful and provocative new dance, sound and installation work that interrogates Australia's capacity to lock away and isolate that which we fear.
Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] confronts Australia's shameful fixation with incarceration, connecting the outrageous levels of Indigenous imprisonment to the indefinite detaining of asylum seekers. Exceptionally talented dancers draw on cultural and community experience to move deftly between horror, truth-telling, and bodily resistance.
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Challenging, joyful and deeply affecting, Merrigong Theatre Company presents Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 29 to 31 August 2024.
Throbbing with sadness, anger, joy and resistance Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] is a powerful and provocative new dance, sound and installation work that interrogates Australia's capacity to lock away and isolate that which we fear.
Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] confronts Australia's shameful fixation with incarceration, connecting the outrageous levels of Indigenous imprisonment to the indefinite detaining of asylum seekers. Exceptionally talented dancers draw on cultural and community experience to move deftly between horror, truth-telling, and bodily resistance.
Go see Jurrungu Ngan-ga Straight Talk 2024.
Jurrungu Ngan-ga Straight Talk 2024 is on 29 - 31 August 2024. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Wollongong. Call 02 4224 5999 for details. Visit their website at https://merrigong.com.au/shows/jurrungu-ngan-ga-straight-talk/.
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