Tracks takes audiences on a walking tour

Darwin-based Tracks Dance Company is known for its outdoor performances, which take place in iconic sites around Darwin. Tracks Dance Company, also renowned for combining community and professional dancer, has been making work for over two decades.

For Tracks’s latest production, artistic directors Tim Newth and David McMicken will take audiences on a special guided tour through woodlands. Entitled Landed, the work draws on the company’s long-term connection with the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu and the natural beauty of the dry Marrrara Swamp at the source of Rapid Creek.

Landed follows the homecoming of three young people from Darwin, freshly returned from an overseas rite of passage. As their feet kiss the earth of their birthplace, the thick humidity soon permeates the bodies, the overwhelming physical experience takes hold and minds have no choice but give in and let go.

Dancers Kelly Beneforti, Darren Edwars and Vera Tabuzo are joined by a cast of over 40 performers, including breakers from the D*City Rockers, children of Millner Primary School and dance students of Casuarina Senior College. Landed features choreography by Gary Lang and a soundscape by McMicken mixed by Mat Cunliffe.

Landed plays 31 July – 14 August, at the Gurrambai Walking Trail (Woodland Loop, end of Larkin Ave, Darwin International Airport). For more information head to www.tracksdance.com.au/landed