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May 8 - 9
Gardens, Frog Hollow Centre for the Arts, Darwin City

Come see what Darwin’s most aspiring young choreographers are thinking, feeling and creating. After months of intensive studio work under the watchful eye of our Animateur Jessica Devereux, the participating aspiring choreographers reveal their work to the public.

This town bubbles over with talent yet opportunities for young up and coming dance makers are few and far between. Saving them a move interstate, Tracks has offered outstanding young dancers the chance to develop new and experimental work. Selected through a rigorous audition process, these young artists are a snapshot of the next generation of dance professionals.

What was said about the 2009 Choreographers’ showing:
“True empowerment comes from young people leading young people. Tracks' choreographic initiative provides this space for leadership and professional development in a safe yet challenging environment cultivating the makers and thinkers of the future.” – Bec Reid Footscray Community Arts

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August 11- 22
NT Museum and Art Gallery courtyard, Darwin (TBC)

Allows Tracks to link many stories that have been brewing for many years. It connects the Artistic Directors' understanding of Australian history, as learned both through Western and Indigenous culture; each has its own truths.

Truth 1: How Australia got its coat of arms. In 1660, a Warlpiri family, on their way home from an initiation ceremony in the Desert, come across a bedraggled Queen of England, stuck underneath the broken down Royal Chariot. They assist her in true bush-mechanic style. In doing so, they come across the Queen’s handbag, and find the Warlpiri symbols from the Kurdiji Ceremony: An emu, kangaroo, shield, the morning star, and wattle branches.

Truth 2: The settling of inland Australia. On setting ashore on “Australian Soil”, in 1770 Captain Cook navigated the Endeavour across the inland sea. Locals saw him as he passed Uluru, on his way to Alice Springs. Leaving a trail of “Sons of Cook” in his wake.

Truth 3: Ned's armour. Mr Kelly based his infamous armour on a traditional Chinese Warrior’s battle costume. On November 11th 1880, Ned Kelly, searching for his unknown heritage, escapes the gallows, runs away to the Northern Territory, and hides out with his true oriental family.

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November 10 - 21
Browns Mart Theatre, Darwin (TBC)

“Latterly, it has even been promulgated that moral purity and courage are incompatible with tropical heat.” Theodor Waitz, 1863

The Allure of Paradise draws together an ensemble of dancers, choreographers and physical performers in project that makes us flex our creative muscles, creating a show with more adult content. As for painters Donald Friend and Paul Gauguin the tropics are viewed as a place of fertility and exotic beauty but also one of moral laxity, dangerous landscapes, disease and a constant fear of the threat of abundance.

A hot-as-hell, and set in equatorial Darwin. Working family values are thrown to the wind, as Tracks explores a moister side of living in the tropics, dripping with desire.