Experience Tongues of Stone

Artists: Trish Wood, Rebecca Taylor, Ashleigh Berry, Emma Fishwick, Floeur Alder, Gabrielle Van der Elst, Hayley Schmidt, Jacqui Claus, Kathryn Puie, Nicole Ward, Nina Svraka, Sacha Lee Flanagan, Sally Blatchford, Serena Chalker and Tarryn Runkel
Venue: Various from the Wellington St train station to the Esplanade
Date: 9 April 2011 - 16 April 2012

Although our Tongues of Stone season has finished you can still experience the journey by downloading the soundtrack below and following the route.

Start the soundtrack on the upper level of the Murray Street train station entrance. Walk to Murray Street Mall. Cross over William Street, heading down Murray Street turn left down the first laneway on your right (just before Mantra on Murray), follow Wolf Lane all the way to King Street, cross over and follow the King Street Arts Centre laneway, exit from the Hay Stret end of the laneway and cross over Hay Street, walk past His Majesty's Theatre and turn left into the His Majety's Theatre laneway, follow the laneway to King Street.
Cross over King Street and enter the building opposite throught he revolving doors (The Atrium), walk through the foyer and exit onto St George's Terrace, cross over at the lights, walk down Mercantile Lane, through Westralia Square, down the steps or elevator, cross the walkway over Mounts Bay Road, turn left and walk to the grassed area. This concludes the Tongues of Stone journey.


STRUT dance is proud to have presented Tongues of Stone a unique promenade dance performance created by New Zealand choreographer Carol Brown and spatial designer Dorita Hannah.
Dancers wove a journey through Perth's architecture revealing hidden and forgotten stories, changing the rhythm of the city, making concrete space speak through dance.
Starting from the Wellington Street train station (entrance under the horseshoe bridge) a woman in a white bridal dress emerged from the Perth underground and commenced a flight through the city; leading the audience with her on her journey through Perth laneways (Wolf Lane, His Majesty's Theatre Lane, Munster Lane); St Martins Place and Westralia Square.
At each of the seven sites along the route a short choreographed performance revealed fragments of the past, inspired by the stories that lie beneath the surface of the City.
Fifteen female dancers took part in the performance, which aimed to give voice to women from our past in a city that has grown on a mining industry boom.
Transitory glimpses were free to all, offering an alternative way to view our City, or paid audience members followed the entire route with headsets listening to the performance with sound design by Russell Scoones.

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Audiences rediscovered the urban spaces they pass by and interact with every day, spaces that hold fractured memories of a wetlands landscape built over and forgotten.
Tongues of Stone aims to change the rhythm of the city and make concrete space speak through dance.
In a quest to make visible the lightest of art forms, STRUT joins the Barcelona-based Dancing Cities Network and brings its voice to worldwide conversations between dance, architecture, public space and social change.
Dancing Cities Network
Dancers: Ashleigh Berry, Emma Fishwick, Floeur Alder, Gabrielle Van der Elst, Hayley Schmidt, Laura Boynes, Kathryn Puie, Nicole Ward, Nina Svraka, Rebecca Taylor, Sacha Lee Flanagan, Sally Blatchford, Serena Chalker, Trish Wood and Tarryn Runkel.


Proudly supported by the City of Perth and Creative NZ.