Events - 2011

Dust

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Perched in the midst of a gaping chasm, one woman defends her home against the ultimate destruction. Willingly stranded in an absurd world of paranoia, she fights everything and everyone. The Melbourne Fringe Festival Winner of Best Dance comes to Adelaide in the new and exciting form of dance film. Dust is inspired by countless Australian stories of the personal impacts of open-cut coal mining. One man, Glenn Beutel, refused to leave his home in Acland even as an open-cut coal mine was built around him. Others in New South Wales_x0019_ Hunter Valley region have told how industrial noise keeps them awake through the night, trains rattle 300 metres away from their house every 15 minutes and their water supply and land is contaminated by insidious black dust. Taking these ideas and spinning them into a web of nightmare and intrigue, Dust is a timely comment on the devastation wreaked by mining and our inability to find a better solution. The individual is pitted against big business and all levels of government - the only question now is how long one person can fight others before insanity sets in and they turn upon themselves. With a potent mix of dark humour, thick black dust and a touch of horror, Dust uses dance and video to interrogate the mess we ourselves have made and the neuroses that arise from lonely open protest. It's a challenging, satirical and passionate journey as one woman struggles desperately not to give in.