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It’s day one of rehearsals for the first-ever collaboration between yidaki composer and player William Barton and dance choreographer Stephen Page when Barton arrives at Sydney Dance Company on crutches and with one foot in a moon boot.

The tall, amiable Barton rolled his ankle while running a hill on Bondi Road the day before and still needs an X-ray. Page, shorter and the bigger talker of the two, laughingly teases him across the table that the injury occurred because “he was showing me some dance moves”.


On a cold Sydney morning, clouds and seagulls fly low as imminent heavy rain once again menaces the filming schedule. Yet five key cast members of the NCIS: Sydney series are drinking beers on a pier from bottles labelled Dizzy Dingo by the show’s meticulous art department.

The drone camera pulls back across the harbour before actor Tuuli Narkle, her hair in a short blonde bob, steps into close-up in dressy heels, black pants and an off-the-shoulder top cinched with a gold buckle. Her self-assured character, Constable Evie Cooper, laughs and tells her joint US-Australian military task force comrades: “I’m going to love you and leave you.”


Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Nari Nari singer-songwriter Uncle Kutcha Edwards is in mourning for his late older brother Dave, who recently passed away.

The 59-year-old tenor is thinking now about the times the brothers appeared on stage together, in the months before and after prime minister Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the stolen generations.


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