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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Elissa Blake

The interactive theatre taking children on a journey across Australia’s Indigenous nations

Jordan O’Davis lying on the floor
‘One of the kids stayed on the floor with me and started to interact with me … it was beautiful’. Saltbush performer Jordan O’Davis. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

When Jada Alberts started working on Saltbush, an interactive theatre experience for children, they sat in the foyer with kids, showing them a map of all the Indigenous countries. “I’d explain that the show they are about to see is about going on a journey across countries, and I’d point out where I come from and where the dancers come from,” Alberts says. “Then we’d walk into the theatre together.”

One day, a child asked Alberts: “But where do Aboriginal people come from?”

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