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The Belly Cries and the Dogs Laugh

  • March 18, 2026 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

  • Turbine Platform

    Brisbane Powerhouse
    New Farm, Queensland 4005
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Description

The Belly Cries and the Dogs Laugh is a new immersive music and dance performance commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney excavating the history of the White Bay Power Station. Co-devised with a collective of artists from the Mediterranean, alongside a number of local performers, the work addresses circulating movements, translocal lives, the cultivation of kinship networks across distances, sites of belonging, hospitality and exclusion.

The silence, solitude, and confinement of working in isolation are juxtaposed with the joy, rhythm, and movement of gathering with community in public space. A traverse between those who are forced to whisper and those who can scream, between proximity and distance, between personal history and collective trauma.

With an entirely new movement score, and live music, rooted in the popolare music and dance of Southern Italy, this free performance will take place on the Turbine Platform at Brisbane Powerhouse.

Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney.

Date & Time

Wed, Mar 18, 2026 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Venue Details

Turbine Platform

Brisbane Powerhouse
New Farm, Queensland 4005 Turbine Platform
BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PTY LTD

Brisbane Powerhouse is Queensland’s home for contemporary culture, a magnificent power station of the 1920s reborn as an arts centre on the Brisbane River.

 

As Brisbane City Council’s premier arts venue, the much-loved building stages more than 1250 performances a year including a program of festivals, as well as hundreds of events and functions from weddings to conferences, all the while housing heritage-listed graffiti, riverside bars and restaurants, visual arts exhibitions and of course the stories of all who have ventured, laughed and shared memories within its living walls.