THE LINE

THE LINE

DATES:
15 MAY – 19 MAY 2019

LOCATION:
HEATH LEDGER THEATRE
STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA

THE LINE, created by Raewyn Hill in collaboration with Mark Howett. This dance-theatre work draws on the boundary line that demarcated a prohibited area in central Perth for Aboriginal people not in employment between 1927 and 1954.

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THE LINE is inscribed with live accompaniment by Co:3 Contemporary Dance Australia Associate Artist and award-winning musician Eden Mulholland and internationally renowned classical-accordionist, James Crabb.

THE LINE is a Western Australian story of segregation, confinement, abandonment and of cross-racial relationships during the 1930s in Western Australia. On 18 March 1927, the Governor of Western Australia relied on the 1905 Act to declare the City of Perth a prohibited area for Aboriginal people, who were not in employment. There was a six o’clock curfew which made it illegal for Aboriginal people not in employment to be in the City of Perth without a pass.

An artistic partnership between Raewyn Hill and Mark Howett, THE LINE shifts and shudders with the strength of contemporary voice, consciously echoing with the energy and movement of an unjust and painful past. A living history, a line that connects to an experience of the local community that is deeply soaked into place, land and memory.

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