“Sugar and kink – entwined in this production – are apt metaphors for the crash you feel after the intense physicality of this performance.”
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Daddy is a participatory dance work created by First Nations choreographer Joel Bray.
From the sugar-coated idyll of childhood reminiscence to the glazed excesses of queer adulthood, Daddy is Joel Bray’s search for a place of belonging.
He weaves his way through and around the audience, one moment channelling childlike innocence, the next exuding muscular gay-male bravado and moments later crashing to the floor in torment.
The audience gradually learns the true story of lost innocence, colonisation and sexual assault that has led to his family and cultural dislocation. Daddy also portrays that Joel Bray, a proud Wiradjuri man, seems more comfortable in European danceforms and images than his own traditional dance.
He twists and contorts himself as he struggles to remember his Aboriginal father and the snippets of culture he learnt from him.
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