Working with charcoal made on Migunberri Country, home to the Yugambeh people for millennia, whose enduring presence is marked by scarred trees and burial sites. This land holds deep cultural, spiritual, environmental, and economic significance for First Nations peoples.Â
Charcoal is a contemporary dance meditation, and exploration of memory, and our evolving relationship with Country. Through the body and onto canvas, it traces a dialogue between spirit and land — a mapping of place both seen and felt.Â
This work breathes with the knowledge passed down through generations. Developed in deep collaboration with family — walking, listening, and learning on Country — Charcoal honours the voices of Keia’s grandmother and family stories etched into the movement, their wisdom carried in each gesture.Â
Inspired by the physical and invisible textures of landscape, Charcoal invites audiences to witness Country as a living, breathing presence. It is a space for deep listening — to land, to lineage, to the subtle shifts in terrain over time. A reflection on place, identity, and the marks we leave behind.Â
As the charcoal draws across canvas, so too does the body draw across the stage — a visceral language of connection, grief, love, and learning.Â
This is not just performance. This is offering. This is remembering.Â
