By Dr Rachael Ann Swain

Books

Gilbert H; Pigram D; Swain R, 2021, Marrugeku Telling That Story: 25 Years of Trans-Indigenous and Intercultural Performance

Swain R, 2020, Dance in contested land: New intercultural dramaturgies

Swain R, 2020, Dance in Contested Land, Springer International Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3

Book Chapters

Lo J; Pigram D; Swain R, 2025, 'Performance and Makarrata: Indigenising interculturalism', in Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 307 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035310036.00031

Swain R, 2020, 'Cut the Sky—Dramaturgies to Disrupt the Anthropocene', in New World Choreographies, pp. 107 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3_4

Swain R, 2020, 'Gudirr Gudirr—Culturally Situated Neo-Expressionism', in New World Choreographies, pp. 69 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3_3

Swain R, 2020, 'Introduction: Contested Land', in New World Choreographies, pp. 1 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3_1

Swain R, 2020, 'The Dramaturgies of Listening to Country', in New World Choreographies, pp. 35 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3_2

Swain R, 2019, 'Dancing in the Gap', in Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, pp. 134 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203731055-34

Swain R, 2014, 'Burning daylight: Contemporary indigenous dance, loss and cultural intuition', in Ethics and the Arts, pp. 99 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8_10

Swain R, 2014, 'Time and a Mirror: Towards a Hybrid Dramaturgy for Intercultural-Indigenous Performance', in New Dramaturgy International Perspectives on Theory and Practice, pp. 145 - 163

Journal articles

Pigram D; Reihana T; Swain R, 2023, 'Research Methodologies for Dance and Cultural Dramaturgies in Contested Land', Critical Stages, 2023, https://www.critical-stages.org/28/research-methodologies-for-dance-and-cultural-dramaturgies-in-contested-land/

Reihana-Morunga T; Roy S; Pollitt J; Raheem A; Pigram D; Swain R, 2023, 'EDITORIAL', Choreographic Practices, 14, pp. 99 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/CHOR_00061_2

Tofighian O; Swain R; Pigram D; Ra B; Connell C; Brown EJ; Shaheen F; Assaad IE; Currie-Richardson L; Wheen M; Bero C; Lopez Z, 2022, 'Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition', Humanities Switzerland, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11010028

Swain R; Pigram D, 2021, 'Calling a warning', Westerly, 61, pp. 14 - 26

Swain R, 2015, 'A meeting of nations: Trans-indigenous and intercultural interventions in contemporary indigenous dance', Theatre Journal, 67, pp. 503 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tj.2015.0093

Conference Papers

Swain R; Farid N; Pigram D, 2026, 'Aliens who walked on land and under sea— embodying the survivance, surrealism and South-South allyship of the north west Australian pearl shell industry 1860s–1960s', in Biddle J; Lea T (ed.), Panel. Making Not Taking Culture: Practice, Purpose, Politics II Organizers: Jennifer Biddle √ (Ethnographic Media Lab (emLAB), UNSW Art & Design, Australia) & Tess Lea √ (Macquarie University, Australia), Concordia, Montreal, Canada, presented at Uncommon Senses V Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences, Concordia, Montreal, Canada, 07 May 2026 - 10 May 2025, https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concordia/en/uncommon-senses-v/schedule/1560/SESSION%202%206%203%20Panel%20%20Making%20Not%20Taking%20Culture%3A%20Practice%2C%20Purpose%2C%20Politics%20II%20?platform=

Swain R; Pigram D, 2025, 'Performing the Midden— artistic research, truth telling and shared responsibility', UTS, Sydney, presented at Australian Academy of the Humanities—The Humanities & Creative Practice (56th Annual Academy Symposium), UTS, Sydney, 13 November 2025 - 14 November 2025, https://humanities.org.au/events/first-nations-arts-design-performance/

Conference Presentations

Swain R; Pigram D, 2025, 'Opening keynote presentation: Dance, Climate and Contested Land', presented at Lyon Biennale FORUM, Salle Conférence, Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie, Lyon, France, 18 September 2025 - 21 September 2025, https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en/biennale/biennale-de-la-danse-2025/forum/marrugeku-danse-climat-et-terres-contestees

Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)

Swain R; Pigram D; Coulibaly SA, 2025, Publication: Cut the Sky (Remix), Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://yirramboi.com.au/program/cut-the-sky

Curatorial Outputs

Swain R; Pigram D, 2025, Dance Climate and Contested Land—a program of 5 events for Lyon Biennale's inaugural FORUM, exhibited at: Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie, Lyon, France, 17 September 2025 - 21 September 2025, https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en/les-artistes/details/marrugeku

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