The Belly Cries and the Dogs Laugh (FREE ENTRY)

The Belly Cries and the Dogs Laugh is a new immersive music and dance performance commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney, excavating the history of the White Bay Power Station. Co-devised with a collective of artists from the Mediterranean, alongside a number of local performers, the work addresses circulating movements, translocal lives, the cultivation of kinship networks across distances, sites of belonging, hospitality and exclusion.

The silence, solitude, and confinement of working in isolation are juxtaposed with the joy, rhythm, and movement of gathering with community in public space. A traverse between those who are forced to whisper and those who can scream, between proximity and distance, between personal history and collective trauma.

With an entirely new movement score, and live music, rooted in the popolare music and dance of Southern Italy, this free performance will take place on the Turbine Platform at Brisbane Powerhouse.

Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney.