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SUMMARY:Australian Art Orchestra & The Young Wägilak Group Present Crossi
 ng Roper Bar : An Interactive Performance & Discussion of Improvisation as
  Transcultural Process - Tony Hicks\, of the Australian Art Orchestra\, Sa
 muel Curkpatrick\, PhD candidate at Australian National University and Ben
 jamin\, David and Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wägilak Group
DTSTART:20121113T130000Z
DTEND:20121113T140000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:*Crossing Roper Bar:  Interactive Performance*\n\nFresh from p
 erforming at Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly and London Jazz Festival  Ton
 y Hicks\, of the Australian Art Orchestra\, Samuel Curkpatrick\, PhD candi
 date at Australian National University and Benjamin\, David and Daniel Wil
 fred of the Young Wägilak Group will present workshops\, discussions and 
 presentations of this visionary production in association with University 
 of Cambridge\, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Homerton College
 .\n\nABOUT CROSSING ROPER BAR\nCrossing Roper Bar (CRB) is an exploration 
 of the music traditions of Australia’s first people by the Australian Ar
 t Orchestra (AAO) in collaboration with the Young Wägilak Group (YWG)\, t
 raditional song men from Ngukurr in South East Arnhem Land that commenced 
 in 2004.\nThe manikay (song cycles) of the Wägilak speaking Yolŋu people
  belong to the oldest continuously practiced culture on earth. The YWG and
  the AAO have worked to present and\, at the same time\, create and develo
 p a transformative contemporary rendering of these precious cultural artif
 acts. To audiences unfamiliar with the world of manikay it is envisaged th
 at CRB may act both as a way of introducing this extraordinary musical for
 m to the world and of allowing people to lose themselves in an alluring wo
 rld of sound\, image and language\, while being taken on the journey of th
 e mythical being Djuwalparra\, which the song cycle in part represents.\n\
 nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nThe Young Wägilak Group (YWG)\, from South East Arnhe
 m in Australia’s Northern Territory\, are custodians of traditional know
 ledge that is expressed through music\, dance\, painting and storytelling.
  “We’re the Young Wägilak Group now\, with my story\, with my grandpa
 ’s story\, and the spirit of grandpa following me. Giving me power\, str
 ong power. That’s why I’m talking strong. And I love my tour [Crossing
  Roper Bar]\, what I do. I love everything that I do from grandpa\, from g
 randpa’s story and talk. Grandpa also told me\, ‘follow me.’ I have 
 to follow him. I’m lucky I’m holding this Wägilak culture strong.” 
 Benjamin Wilfred\, leader YWG\n\nThe Australian Art Orchestra (AAO)\, foun
 ded by Paul Grabowsky in 1994\, comprises 20 of Australia’s leading perf
 ormers and composers operating at the nexus of notated\, improvised\, west
 ern\, non‐western\, new and traditional music. The orchestra is renowned
  for developing music as a language that builds connections between indivi
 duals\, societies\, cultures and nations. It gives a voice to both cross
 ‐cultural and cross‐genre collaboration.  The AAO continues to be a gr
 ound‐breaking ensemble in developing the concept of ‘music without fro
 ntiers’\, a notion which accepts the simple premise that music speaks to
  us in ways that words do not\, and that it is possible to engage on the h
 ighest and deepest levels of music‐making with masters of various\, if n
 ot all\, traditions.\nwww.aao.com.au\n\nInfo: 01223 333516\n\ncumma @ herm
 es.cam.ac.uk \n\nhttp://maa.cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, Downing Street\, City Ce
 ntre\, Cambridge\, CB2 3DZ
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