IICL2 – BROOME 2010

The 2010 laboratory was hosted in Broome, Marrugeku’s own hybrid cultural context, enabling the research to be grounded in Marrugeku’s particular experience of place. The lab which included NSW and WA based Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants and Maori dance artists from Aotearoa and Australia.

The workshops were led by Andréya Ouamba, from Senegal, West Africa, Artistic Director and Choreographer of Cie 1er Temps; and Co-founder of the Association 1er Temps who partnered Papuan dance artist and choreographer Jecko Siompo whose unique combination of traditional and modern dance challenges notions of the form contemporary performance can take. The leaders took the participants on a journey to challenge their approach to intercultural and interdisciplinary expression; building on their level of conceptual development; and encouraging vigorous critical debate on the issues surrounding intercultural and interdisciplinary practice in a unique laboratory experience.