Belloo Creative in collaboration with Good Company Arts and Phluxus2 Dance Collective

The Woman Remembers

The Woman Remembers is a sophisticated and visually stunning projected work about belonging and loss. The work has evolved from a long-term collaboration between independent theatre companies in Queensland, New Zealand and Japan. For this iteration, Belloo collaborated with Good Company Arts (New Zealand) and Phluxus2 Dance Collective (Brisbane) to share a poetic piece of visual storytelling on the façade of the Judith Wright Centre from 1 November 2021 to 2 January 2022, nightly. 

The Woman Remembers is a work of scale and beauty addressing our relationship to landscape and our experience of climate emergency.

The Woman Remembers trailer.

Credits

Writer | Katherine Lyall-Watson
Creative Director | Caroline Dunphy
Dramaturg | Kathryn Kelly
Digital & Visual Designer | Daniel Belton
Videographer | Shaun Charles
Choreographer | Nerida Matthaei
Performers | Hsin-Ju Ely, Chiu-Ju Wang, Jacob Watton, Charles Ball & Zachary Boulton
Original music by Good Company Arts, featuring Jac Grenfell, Daniel Belton and Eliahpt

The Woman Remembers is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Script excerpt

The woman remembers
the day the earth shook
and the sea came rushing inland

burying her house
burying her street
burying her village

under thick mud

The woman digs until stars forget their origins
and planets whirl in silence

She is a reel of thread
She is undone

Script excerpt from The Woman Remembers © Katherine Lyall-Watson

Images by Barbara Lowing.

THE WOMAN REMEMBERS AT INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2023

The Woman Remembers made a micro-cinema appearance as part of International Women's Day 2023 as part of Metro Arts exhibition season.

For more information, head to The Woman Remembers, 2023

Video and Editing by Jade Ellis.