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NO ONE REMEMBERS THE SKY
Circa Cairns
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4
Sat 4 Oct 7:00 PM
Queensland Country Bank Festival Hub
Wheelchair
General Admission
This is not spectacle for its own sake. This is movement as protest. Precision as offering. Presence as truth.
NO ONE REMEMBERS THE SKY brings together First Nations performers whose bodies carry stories. Stories of ceremony, survival, memory, and joy. It is a work grounded in cultural practice and community, where technical skill meets deep listening. Listening to each other, to Country, to history.
At its centre stand towering sculptural tripods. Circus apparatus, fractured monuments – are they echoes of mining rigs and colonial structures or ladders on which to climb higher? They recall broken tools once used to claim and divide. The performers climb them, twist through them, drag them, reimagine them. What emerges is a live negotiation between body and structure, expectation, and defiance.
Sound pulses through the space. It is not staged, but reactive. Some moments erupt in tension. Others in laughter. Nothing is resolved for you.
This is contemporary circus stripped of convention and filled with intent. It opens with a fact. First Nations people make up just three per cent of so-called Australia. And yet are asked to carry its history. To climb. To represent. To smile.
And still, we look up.
The sky, to First Nations peoples, has never been empty. It holds knowledge, constellations, ceremony. A living map across generations.
NO ONE REMEMBERS THE SKY is not about resilience performed. It is resilience lived. It is resistance, precision, protest, and play. A joke told mid-fall, and the truth of still rising.
WEBSITE
Image credit: Photography by James Henry
Created for Circa Cairns by Ngioka Bunda-Heath and guests.
Circa Cairns is a Circa initiative supported by the Queensland Government and the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
Circa Cairns is based in Gimuy (Cairns) on the lands of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people.
We acknowledge that art has been practiced here over many millennia, and that it remains a fundamental way of life for the traditional Caretakers and Custodians of the lands on which we work, create and perform today. We acknowledge that we are here as visitors and accept the responsibility to respect and care for these lands and tread lightly.
Always was. Always will be.
NO ONE REMEMBERS THE SKY brings together First Nations performers whose bodies carry stories. Stories of ceremony, survival, memory, and joy. It is a work grounded in cultural practice and community, where technical skill meets deep listening. Listening to each other, to Country, to history.
At its centre stand towering sculptural tripods. Circus apparatus, fractured monuments – are they echoes of mining rigs and colonial structures or ladders on which to climb higher? They recall broken tools once used to claim and divide. The performers climb them, twist through them, drag them, reimagine them. What emerges is a live negotiation between body and structure, expectation, and defiance.
Sound pulses through the space. It is not staged, but reactive. Some moments erupt in tension. Others in laughter. Nothing is resolved for you.
This is contemporary circus stripped of convention and filled with intent. It opens with a fact. First Nations people make up just three per cent of so-called Australia. And yet are asked to carry its history. To climb. To represent. To smile.
And still, we look up.
The sky, to First Nations peoples, has never been empty. It holds knowledge, constellations, ceremony. A living map across generations.
NO ONE REMEMBERS THE SKY is not about resilience performed. It is resilience lived. It is resistance, precision, protest, and play. A joke told mid-fall, and the truth of still rising.
WEBSITE
Image credit: Photography by James Henry
Created for Circa Cairns by Ngioka Bunda-Heath and guests.
Circa Cairns is a Circa initiative supported by the Queensland Government and the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
Circa Cairns is based in Gimuy (Cairns) on the lands of the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people.
We acknowledge that art has been practiced here over many millennia, and that it remains a fundamental way of life for the traditional Caretakers and Custodians of the lands on which we work, create and perform today. We acknowledge that we are here as visitors and accept the responsibility to respect and care for these lands and tread lightly.
Always was. Always will be.