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Desert Hothouse | White Lies
Sat
1
Sat 1 Aug 2:00 PM
Araluen Arts Centre
General Admission
WHITE LIES | Katina Olsen
Australia (as we know it) is built on the legal fiction of terra nullius (land belonging to no-one, the basis of the British claim to possession of Australia). Since colonisation of so-called Australia, First Nations people, our voices, stories and issues have been spoken for and misrepresented by those with a power to speak to the masses. What happens when those with a platform to speak to and influence many, share skewed uninformed information affecting a whole society’s understanding of this land’s First Peoples? What happens when this occurs repeatedly, over decades, over generations?
White Lies attempts to show the disparity between truth and a lie and one version of events versus another whilst asking: “if we muzzle the truth of the land and its people, how are we to learn and understand how to care for it and live within it?”.
About Katina
Katina Olsen is a Wakka Wakka Kombumerri dancer and choreographer whose work spans Australia, Canada, the UK, USA, and Europe. Her credits include collaborations with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, Australasian Dance Collective, and Queensland Ballet (for whom she created their first First Nations work in 2024). She is Co-Artistic Director of Dance Makers Collective and an alumna of DanceWeb, BlakForm, and Creative Australia's Future Leaders program.
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Choreographer: Katina Olsen
Collaborating Performers: Ash Musk (Italian, German, English), Karlia Cook (Mā’ohi - Norf’k, Ngāpuhi), Bella Waru (Ngāti Tukorehe, Taranaki Tūturu, Celtic), Tara Robertson (Migunberri, Celtic) and Frankie Snowdon (Dutch, Celtic, English).
Sound Composition/Design: Serina Pech and Anna Whitaker
Lighting, Spatial and Set Design: Jen Hector
Video Artist: Samuel James
Dramaturge: Ash Musk
Creative Producer: Frances Robinson
Production Management: Triptic Event Management
Thought Leader: Art Oracle, Erica McCalman
Creative Consultant: Ping Flynn
SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS
Desert Hothouse is presented by GUTS Dance // Central Australia in partnership with the Araluen Arts Centre.
Desert Hothouse is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, Regional Arts Australia and the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT.
GUTS Dance is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund and also receives organisational funding through Arts NT, Creative Australia and Future Generations Australia.
Warnings: Loud music and sound, changing lighting levels, glitching and strobe-like effects, haze & smoke, political themes, themes related to colonisation and its ongoing impacts.
Australia (as we know it) is built on the legal fiction of terra nullius (land belonging to no-one, the basis of the British claim to possession of Australia). Since colonisation of so-called Australia, First Nations people, our voices, stories and issues have been spoken for and misrepresented by those with a power to speak to the masses. What happens when those with a platform to speak to and influence many, share skewed uninformed information affecting a whole society’s understanding of this land’s First Peoples? What happens when this occurs repeatedly, over decades, over generations?
White Lies attempts to show the disparity between truth and a lie and one version of events versus another whilst asking: “if we muzzle the truth of the land and its people, how are we to learn and understand how to care for it and live within it?”.
About Katina
Katina Olsen is a Wakka Wakka Kombumerri dancer and choreographer whose work spans Australia, Canada, the UK, USA, and Europe. Her credits include collaborations with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, Australasian Dance Collective, and Queensland Ballet (for whom she created their first First Nations work in 2024). She is Co-Artistic Director of Dance Makers Collective and an alumna of DanceWeb, BlakForm, and Creative Australia's Future Leaders program.
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Choreographer: Katina Olsen
Collaborating Performers: Ash Musk (Italian, German, English), Karlia Cook (Mā’ohi - Norf’k, Ngāpuhi), Bella Waru (Ngāti Tukorehe, Taranaki Tūturu, Celtic), Tara Robertson (Migunberri, Celtic) and Frankie Snowdon (Dutch, Celtic, English).
Sound Composition/Design: Serina Pech and Anna Whitaker
Lighting, Spatial and Set Design: Jen Hector
Video Artist: Samuel James
Dramaturge: Ash Musk
Creative Producer: Frances Robinson
Production Management: Triptic Event Management
Thought Leader: Art Oracle, Erica McCalman
Creative Consultant: Ping Flynn
SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS
Desert Hothouse is presented by GUTS Dance // Central Australia in partnership with the Araluen Arts Centre.
Desert Hothouse is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, Regional Arts Australia and the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT.
GUTS Dance is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund and also receives organisational funding through Arts NT, Creative Australia and Future Generations Australia.
Warnings: Loud music and sound, changing lighting levels, glitching and strobe-like effects, haze & smoke, political themes, themes related to colonisation and its ongoing impacts.