A significant new dance work by Joel Bray, MONOLITH transforms colonised bodies into sites of silent protest.   

Floating on a dystopian island designed by artist Jake Preval, five powerful female dancers craft a sinewy, muscular and androgynous choreographic language. Moving to the delicate and driving beats of celebrated composer Matthias Schack-Arnott, these fierce Brown women present themselves as an obstacle, as resistance to the colonising power.     

Together, they evoke a monolith – one of the enormous ancient rock formations that ‘sit-in’ the landscape and defy the colonisation, deforestation and urbanisation of surrounding Country.  

Echoing and honouring generations of protest and rebellion, MONOLITH is a powerful and undeniable work from one of our most celebrated creators.