Artist Talk: Joel Bray

Naarm-based Joel Bray is a proud Wiradjuri man who danced in Europe and Australia with CeDeCe, Kolben and FRESCO Dance Companies, Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor and Roy Assaf and CHUNKY MOVE.

Joel’s works: Biladurang, Dharawungara and Daddy have toured to the Brisbane, Sydney, Darwin, Midsumma, Auckland, LiveWorks and Dance Massive Festivals and Arts Centre Melbourne.

Joel was the 2019 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow, and continues this Burbang research into Wiradjuri ceremony as Chunky Move’s inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence.

Joel works spring from his Wiradjuri heritage, are intimate encounters in unorthodox spaces, in which audience-members are invited in as co-storytellers to explore the experiences of fair-skinned Aboriginal people, and of gay men in an increasingly digital/isolated world.

This program was presented as part of the 2022 National Visual Arts Education Conference.