Tracks Inc

Tracks is a dance theatre company based in Darwin, Northern Territory.

History

Tracks dance company was founded in 1994, although its beginnings lie in a community dance program in 1988. It has completed residencies in Lajamanu (1989 and 1990) and continues to work with that community.^[1]

Description

The company is located at Harbour View Plaza in Darwin.^[2] It seeks to engage community members in its productions, applying community cultural development practice in their work over many years. It focuses on engaging with Indigenous Australians and their communities.^[1][3]

A seniors dance group, the "Grey Panthers", has also been formed.^[1]

Awards

• Nominated, 2000 Northern Territory Human Rights Awards for work with refugees and migrants, Sticks ‘n’ Stones project.^{[citation needed]}

• The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards 2004 Group Award was awarded to Tracks Dance Theatre^[4] and Melbourne Workers Theatre.^[5]

• Shortlisted 2007 Australian Dance Awards Services to Dance^{[citation needed]}

• Winner Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community dance - 2008 for Struck^{[citation needed]}

• Winner 2009 Australian Business Arts Foundation Giving Award: SA and NT Australian business and the arts Giving Award for Milpirri 2008 with the Milpirri Management Committee and Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund^{[citation needed]}

• Shortlisted 2010 Australian Dance Award Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance. The Cook, The Queen and the Kelly^{[citation needed]}

• Winner 2013 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance. Eight to Eighty - the Architecture of Age^{[citation needed]}

• 2014 David McMicken and Tim Newth made Members (AM) in the general division of the Order of Australia^{[who?][citation needed]}

• Shortlisted 2014 Australian Dance Award Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance. Zombies in the Banyan Tree^{[citation needed]}

• Winner 2015 Australian Dance Award Outstanding Achievement in Community Dance. Milpirri (jarda-warnpa)^{[citation needed]}

• Shortlisted 2017 Australian Dance Award Outstanding Achievement in Community Dance. Landed^{[citation needed]}

• Shortlisted 2017 Australian Dance Award Outstanding Achievement in Youth Dance. Milpirri - Kirdiji^{[citation needed]}

• Finalist, 2017 Australian of the Year - Northern Territory. David McMicken and Tim Newth^{[citation needed]}

• Winner 2018 Australian Dance Award, Outstanding Achievement in Community Dance. Man Made^{[citation needed]}

Works and performances

Tracks has toured interstate and regularly performs throughout the Northern Territory.^[3][6][7]

• Flying off the Edge (1992)
• Tracks and Clusters (1992)
• Lajamanu Kurra Karna Yani (1992)
• From Little Things Big Things Grow (1992)
• Old Spice Club Cabaret (1992)
• Land (1993)
• Silent Thought (1993)
• Sacred Space (1994)
• My House (1994)
• Sacred Space (1994)
• Yawalyu, Lajamanu Ceremonial Dances
• Open House 2 (1994)
• Healthy Wealthy and Wise (1995)
• Yipirinya - After the Rain (1995)
• Boundaries and Beyond (1995)
• Ngapa - Two Cultures One Country (1996)
• The Opportunity of Distance – Tour (1996)
• Six Feet Over or Under (1996)
• Angurugu Residency - Wild Things (1997)
• Bodies of Light (1997)
• 4WD Sweat Dust and Romance (1997)
• The Land the Cross and the Lotus (1998)
• Kukanarri Show – Tiwi Islands (1998)
• Walking on Water (1999)
• Reluctant Retirees (1999)
• Shades of Pink (1999)
• Top of the Tower (1999)
• Recollections (1999)
• Emergence (1999)
• Love vs Gravity (2000)
• Outside the Camp (2000)
• Sticks n Stones (2000)
• Two Fold Journey (2000)
• Dear Auntie (2001)
• Mother Daughter (2001)
• Fierce - The Story of Olive Pink (2001)
• Rivers of the Underground (2001)
• Fierce - The Meeting of Olive Pink (2002)
• Rivers of the Underground (return season) (2002)
• Ignite (2002)
• Local (2003)
• Janganpa (2003)
• A Bowls Club Wedding (2003)
• Rust (2004)
• Fast (2004)
• Snakes Gods and Deities (2004)^[8]
• Milpirri - Jarda-Warnpa (2005)
• Angels of Gravity (2005)
• Arafura Games 05 (Opening Ceremony) (2005)
• A Bowls Club Wedding (return season) (2006)
• Mr BIG (2006)
• Without Sea (2006)
• You Dance funny (2007)^[9]
• Arafura Game - Opening Ceremony (2007)
• Lipstick and Ochre (2008)^[10]
• Struck (2008)
• Milpirri – Jurntu (2009)
• Endurance (2009)
• Allure of Paradise (2010)
• The Cook the Queen and the Kelly (2010)
• Milpirri Showing – Yinapaka (2011)
• Crocodile Man Pineapple Woman (2011)
• Milpirri – Pulyaranyi (2012)
• Eight to Eighty - The Architecture of Age (2012)
• Zombies in the Banyan Tree (2013)
• Future Age (2013)
• Milpirri - Jarda-Warnpa (2014)
• You Dance Funny - The Sequalé (2014)
• Last Light (2015)
• Hidden Meaning (2015)
• Milpirri – Kurdiji (2016)
• Landed (2016)
• Caravan (2017)
• Man Made (2017)
• Tracktivation (2018)
• In Your Blood (2018)
• Milpirri – Jurntu (2018)
• En Masse (2019)
• Global Positioning (2019)

References

1. O'Riordan, Maurice (29 April 2003). . ABC Arts Online. Archived from the original on 1 January 2006. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
2. "Contact Details". Tracks Dance. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
3. National Library of Australia (26 August 2004). . Archived from the original on 29 October 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. Gastin, Annie (22 February 2005). "Local Dance Company Takes Out Top Gong". ABC Northern Territory. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
5. "Previous winners Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards" (PDF). Myer Family Philanthropy.
6. Newth, Tim; David McMicken (12 August 2003). "Tracks going outback". ABC Rural: Bush Telegraph. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
7. REAL TIME (April/May 2003) David McMicken and Tim Newth 2007-08-30 at the Wayback Machine 72kb
8. "Snakes, Gods and Deities". ABC Radio National: Sunday Morning. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
9. Humphris, Kate (2007). "You Dance Funny has everyone laughing" (item). ABC Darwin: Arts and Entertainment. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
10. "Revealing why it takes women so long to get ready". ABC Darwin: Arts and Entertainment. 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008.

External links

• Official website

• Jaensch, Sarah (27 October 2006). . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Stateline. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.