I.B.I.S (2015)

Links, further reading & acknowledgements

Online

Gab Titui

http://www.gabtitui.gov.au/

The Torres Strait Regional Authority

http://www.tsra.gov.au/

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

https://aiatsis.gov.au/

 

Books

The Torres Strait Islands

Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art

Brisbane, Australia, 2011.

 

Woven Histories, Dancing Lives. Davis, R.

Ch.1. ‘Torres Strait: the region and its people’.

Lawrence, D. and Reeves Lawrence, H.

Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, ACT 2004.

 

Stars of Tagai: The Torres Strait Islands

Sharp, Nonie.

Aboriginal Studies Press

AIATSIS, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1993.

 

Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land.

Magowan, Fiona and Neuenfeldt, Karl.

Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, Canberra, ACT Australia 2005.

 

Acknowledgements

Choreographers           Deborah Brown, Waangenga Blanco

Cultural consultant       Peggy Misi, William Satrick – Ka La LaGau Ya language

                                    Pinau Ghee, Aunty Betty Tekahika (Mabo) – Meriam Mer language

Music/sound designer Steve Francis

Set designer                Jacob Nash

Costume designer        Jennifer Irwin

Lighting designer         Karen Norris

Dancers in these clips:   Elma Kris, Yolande Brown, Deborah Brown, Waangenga Blanco, Tara Gower, Leonard Mickelo, Jasmin Sheppard, Tara Robertson, Kaine Sultan-Babij, Luke Currie-Richardson, Nicola Sabatino, Beau Dean Riley Smith, Rikki Mason, Yolanda Lowatta, Rika Hamaguchi, Kyle Shilling.