We are dancing together to create a performance, Whispers in the Grass, a story of dispossession, grief and survival.
Dance speech poetry and song are the archives of oral cultures and we are building our own archive of feeling.
It is one of many stories of the Scots diaspora to Australia in the 19th century
and it follows a local story, the story of how local farmer George McDonald’s forebears came from famine in Skye in 1852, to the Capertee Valley.