“YALAKUN DANCERS” PROJECT IN PARIS

Occasionally we get involved in projects outside the narrow confines of copyright administration. In November/December we will be in France backing up an innovative music/dance project for Cité de la Musique, Paris.

“Yalakun Dancers” began in 2000 with a group of Aboriginal children performing in the city of Blois, as part of the French Millennial Celebrations. The response from French audiences was so warm that the group has been invited back to France in 2005 for a tour of 4 cities – Caen (Normandie), Châlon-en-Champagne (Champagne), Grenoble (French Alps) and Paris. (http://www.cite-musique.fr /anglais/spectacles/_database/S03380.htm)

Also travelling and playing with them will be didgeridoo soloists William Barton ( website accessible at http://www.williambarton.com.au), Gumaroy and Nathan Scott. Together, on 26 Nov in one big Paris concert, they will demonstrate the art of didj playing from its origins to the many new approaches that make up contemporary music. This concept concert will be repeated in Caen 19 Nov (http://www.theatre.caen.fr/concert/frame1911.htm), Châlon-en-Champagne 29 Nov and Grenoble 3 Dec

(Photographs © Anthony Wallis 2005)