Make a splash at an art happening inspired by early modern Queer photography and Ancient Corroboree practices    

Early black-and-white photographs of same-sex couples lounging by riverways were often seething with implicit sexuality. A Very Koori Pool Party will indigenise and complicate these images with an art happening that promises to be very Ibiza-meets-Warrandyte. 

Naycab (Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta) will bring the sunset grooves and beats poolside. Wiradjuri dancer and performance-maker Joel Bray and fellow Koori dancers will be our hosts. Witness three Koori bodies lounging around the pavilion pool in old-fashioned bikinis. Grab an umbrellaed cocktail and mingle as the three performers shift energies around us—in a sultry choreography, flickering between iconic Queer movement languages and references to Koori cultures.

Collaborators

Joel Bray is a Naarm-based proud Wiradjuri dancer and performance-maker, and Artistic Director of Joel Bray Dance. He has performed with European companies and choreographers, and with CHUNKY MOVE. Joel’s dance-theatre encounters in unorthodox spaces spring from his Wiradjuri heritage, and use humour to engage audiences in rituals about sex, history, trauma and healing. Joel makes his work in collaboration with Elders, Community and Country.  
 
Zoe Brown-Holten is a contemporary dancer and choreographer, and an ascendant from (Th)Dunghutti, Gomeroi, and Wiradjuri tribes, originating from the south coast of NSW. She has relocated to Woi Wurrung country to complete her tertiary studies at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Trained by Bangarra Dance Theatre’s youth facilitators, she has performed in works by Daniel Riley, Brianna Kell, and Gregory Lorenzetti, and choreographed and worked with Jacob Boehme for Adelaide Fringe Festival 2024.