Many Dances’- a multi-channel sound installation for the boardwalk opposite the amphitheatre on Wollundry Lagoon. The installation consists of a computer controlled system that generates a continually changing immersive soundscape, sensors that turn on the system when people are present and an array of 7 small speakers that will be placed under the floor of the boardwalk.

The soundscape will be generated from a collection of short recordings of dance gestures made on the boardwalk (foot falls, shuffles and scrapes etc with shoes, boots and bare feet). In presenting the sonic detail of dance gestures, audiences are drawn into the specifics of their own embodied experience of dance while at the same time provoked to consider this experience in the context of Wagga Wagga as ‘the place of many dances’.

People gathering and dancing has a long history and significance for the people of Wagga Wagga. Here are a few images from that touch on the diversity of dance gatherings over the last 200 years.
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
Wagga Wagga's first public corroboree since 1870s https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/wagga-wagga-corroboree-2019/11644142
The Dixieland Dancefloor on the Murrumbidgee 1930’s https://regionriverina.com.au/riverina-rewind-when-wagga-danced-on-the-water-under-the-stars/ 7312/
The Dixieland Dancefloor on the Murrumbidgee 1930’s https://regionriverina.com.au/riverina-rewind-when-wagga-danced-on-the-water-under-the-stars/ 7312/
The entrance gate to ‘Dixieland’ https://onrecordblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/beach-babies-on-the-bidgee/
The entrance gate to ‘Dixieland’ https://onrecordblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/beach-babies-on-the-bidgee/
Dixieland Melody Makers https://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/3623865/new-pics-surface-of-waggas-riverside-dancefl oor/?cs=156
Dixieland Melody Makers https://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/3623865/new-pics-surface-of-waggas-riverside-dancefl oor/?cs=156
installation plan Wollundry Lagoon
installation plan Wollundry Lagoon