Two Blood is many things, but above all a call to remember there are more things that make us alike than separate us.

Co-directors Daniel Riley of Adelaide’s Australian Dance Theatre and S. Shakthidharan of the Sydney company Kurinji (Shakthidharan is also the writer) start Two Blood with a poignant story from the past. Two bodies are found intertwined in death, one a Tagalaka woman from the Gulf Savannah in north-west Queensland, the other a Chinese man there to search for gold.

The image of the pair huddled together becomes a touching metaphor for much larger issues. It gives a human face to big ideas about history, the meeting of cultures, intolerance and the beauty inherent in embracing one another.

Zachary Lopez, Joshua Doctor and Zoe Wozniak: Two Blood. Photo © Morgan Sette

Two Blood looks north to Asia and the centuries-old interactions between restless seekers from that continent and the First Nations people of our own and turns that connection into a swirling poem of struggle and survival expressed vividly in dance, text in multiple languages, music and the moving image.

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