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Incredibly moving, meditative, beautifully layered storytelling

From the maker of Chika (OzAsia Festival 2008) comes In Repose, an artistic homage to Japanese migrants who lived and died in Australia since the late 1800s and have become part of this landscape through burial.

In Repose merges story-telling, photography, soundscape, koto music and dance inspired by old Japanese cemeteries in Australia. A kuyo - a Japanese term describing an act of ceremonial offering to respect, honour and calm the spirits of the deceased - In Repose also honours the local Australian Indigenous communities who to this day are looking after the graves of these Japanese migrants, buried far away from their native land.

Mayu Kanamori (photography / story telling), Satsuki Odamura (koto music) Wakako Asano (dance/choreography), Vic McEwan (sound design / story telling), Keith Tucker (lighting design).

In Repose also comprises a photo display in the Space Theatre Foyer.

Read more

www.throwshapes.com.au/2010/04/05/in-repose-theyll-dance-on-your-graves/