Le Dernier Appel / The Last Cry

We are sorry to inform everyone that for reasons beyond our control, we have had to make the decision to cancel Le Dernier Appel from our 2021 Season.

Due to COVID-19, the New Caledonian government has suspended international flights to and from the country in order to keep its population safe. This means that the cast and crew of Le Dernier Appel are not able to leave New Caledonia and join us on stage at Heath Ledger Theatre 12 – 15 May.

We are deeply disappointed that we are not able to share this exceptional dance work with you, and together with Marrugeku and all the cast and crew, we thank you for your understanding.

All ticket holders have been notified. Please call us on 08 6212 9300 if you are a ticket holder and have a specific enquiry.

With love,

The Black Swan Family.

A Marrugeku Production

Director: Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Co-choreographers: Dalisa Pigram and Serge Aimé Coulibaly

This award-winning production from one of Australia’s leading dance companies at the forefront of Intercultural work will move, exhilarate and challenge audiences.

Inspired by the ongoing series of New Caledonia’s referendums on independence from France and Australia’s decades of debate over Indigenous recognition and treaty, Le Dernier Appel explores the aftermaths of colonisation, seeking what to embrace of the new and what to let fall. While governments debate, peoples born of invasion, migration and displacement, wait for the new day...tomorrow.

HIS MOST RECENT WORK FROM MARRUGEKU CEMENTS ITS PLACE AS ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST EXCITING DANCE COMPANIES - Alison Croggon, Witness

Mes chers amis,

Some things are said without words. They are written with our bodies. Etched into our skin, spoken with our movements, our voices. There are invisible restraints holding us in place. There’s a space beyond this moment, we know there is.

There’s a space beyond this instability, beyond this frustration.