A powerful solo performance of body, bloodline and a world already in motion.

The ground beneath WOMXN is shifting.

Her child speaks of moon lilies, black holes and a treehouse in the sky. A black cockatoo appears at the kitchen window. Beneath the ordinary rhythms of everyday life, something begins to hum.

Then WOMXN falls through the world.

As the cracks begin to widen, what was always there begins to emerge.

Through a rich interplay of movement, sound, motion-capture imagery and spatial design, The Dark Matter of Usulal asks what holds when the ground shifts, and what continues long after the ending has already been declared.

The Dark Matter of Usulal emerges from an entrusted relationship with the Ait Koedal Clan story of Usulal, and an instruction given to creator, director and performer Margaret J Harvey through her Saibai Island bloodline: “Go and interpret.”

The work follows Harvey’s continuing relationship with that entrustment; an intimate and expansive encounter with a world that was always here.