Dance Choreography

The performance-dance-movement piece was a twenty-minute work by the Canberra-based Mirramu Dance Company with Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman, OAM, as Artistic Director / Choreographer / Dancer, Vivienne Rogis, principal dancer and Amanda Miller.

There were performances about in 2002 & 2004 in Australia. The first was held on the eve of November 1st, between Hallowe’en and the Celtic New Year – traditionally a time of celebration of the liminal space between the worlds of the living and the dead; a time of honoring of one’s ancestors. This festive time of the year is very popular in Northern Ireland and is a time when there are celebrations across divided communities.

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, is a pioneer of modernist and contemporary choreography. She has always worked on intercultural projects since the late 1960s. She runs Mirramu Dance Company. The dance-theatre work contextualized the unusual use of the handkerchiefs in a Northern Ireland conflict memorial. It helps an audience understand the inner human processes of grief and trauma. For example, the three dancers do a section with linen shrouds and another section with bandaging wounds. They also energize the space, such as the draped inverted archways.