Welcome to apply for an exclusive opportunity for a workshop with an indigenous dance company from Australia.

Marrugeku is an Indigenous and intercultural dance company based in the remote community of Broome in the north of Western Australia. Combining dance, storytelling, installation art, video, song and spoken word, Marrugeku’s productions are co-created with artists from diverse backgrounds and art forms. The company is led by Co-Artistic Directors, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain. Dalisa is a Broome born movement artist and a Yawuru/Bardi woman who is also proud of her Malay and Filipino heritage and Rachael is a New Zealand born director and dramaturg of Scottish and Irish descent. Together Dalisa and Rachael facilitate collaborative processes with diverse artists and communities to explore the possibilities of intercultural expression, choreographic truth telling about our world and new interdisciplinary languages. The workshop will introduce Marrugeku’s improvisational approaches to embodying social, cultural, personal and interspecies expression to develop new gestural dance and theatre. Working with the participants own movements, stories, cultural backgrounds and experiences we will share approaches to concept development, choreography, dramaturgy and interdisciplinary composition.  The workshop is open to dancers of all styles and backgrounds, as well as actors interested in improvisational movement processes to generate performance.


Dancers from or with connection to Region Västerbotten can receive a small travel grant, thanks to Dans i Västerbotten. If you are connected to Västerbotten, please add this in your application somewhere or with a separate email to jimmy@jillat.se.