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Indigenous performers prepare for Melbourne play |
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
ABC Alice Springs coverage of the journey to Melbourne International Arts Festival.
A group of young artists from central Australian Indigenous communities is travelling to Melbourne to perform the world premiere of a play at next week's International Arts Festival.
The play is performed in Pitjantjatjara and English and is called Ngapartji Ngapartji, which means 'I give you something, you give me something'.
It traces the story of the Spinifex people's encounter with the Cold War.
Community producer Dani Powell says the developmental showing in Alice Springs was well received, and the Melbourne performance has nearly sold out.
"Judging from the feedback and the response we had in Alice Springs ... my feeling is that it's going to be fantastic and that people are going to really feel very moved and excited by a story that hasn't really been told yet, definitely hasn't been told in a theatrical representation."
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2010 Ngapartji Ngapartji