A Journey of Healing
Across North Africa, the all-night music-dance-trance ritual called lila (pronounced lee-lah) is celebrated as a means for spiritual healing.
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The term “wayfinder” has two definitions. The first refers to a sign or landmark that helps navigate people to a specific location; a physical marker guiding people home. The second points toward a traveller; someone who is in search of a particular place. Despite being either subject or object, the two definitions share a commonality—there is an inherent and active search going on. People searching for signs, for each other, and for meaning. The audience, too, walked into this performance searching for their own answers, as individual as they may be. And what they found was the kaleidoscopic brilliance that is Dancenorth’s “Wayfinder.”
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Dancenorth perform “Wayfinder” at Brisbane Festival. Photograph by David Kelly
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