A musical offering to return one back to the love within
The Return by Beetle Miyela
Centering ourselves in poetic realms of imagination, like stepping into your favourite children’s tale. The Return offers a sacred immersion of sound, song and story. A multilayered musical offering, to guide one back to the love within.
The Return is a 70 minute musical journey, leading viewers on a hypnotic adventure through deep forests, singing with the spirits of the trees and crossing vast oceans.
The work harnesses collaborative power of space, sound and movement to guide the audience through a transformative visual and aural experience.
The performance consists of Butoh inspired movements. Sustainable, spacial art installations, including Faery Portals, by Shani Bidwell and Bonaluga Art, Bonnie Connelly. Costume design by Paper Maker, Kanako Enokida. Musical accompaniment by Julia Biers. Tea service by Caleb Janniste and soundscapes, song, storytelling and all embodied guidance by Beetle Miyela.
Together we create a sacred ceremony of stillness and softness. Journeying back into our bodies to
re-connect, release and renew. The Return is a feeling of coming home.
Performance Details:
● Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of August @ 7pm
● Sunday 3rd of August @ 5pm
● The Paint Factory, Yeronga
● Tickets – https://anywhere.is/series/the-return/
About
Beetle Miyela is a multidisciplinary sound and performance artist currently based in
Magandjin, Brisbane. Her practice draws from her cultural heritage, descending from
Anglo-Celtic, Scandinavian and Maltese bloodlines, whilst simultaneously connecting to
the innate oneness of Mother Earth. Her aim is to use ritualistic, somatic performance
as an offering to bridge the imaginary and the reality. Miyela’s work focuses on creating
places of quiet in order to explore the healing forces of sound and movement. She
offers safe, immersive and creative spaces for audiences to rest and reconnect with
themselves.
Miyela has been working and training in the performing arts for the past 5 years,
completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries (distinction), majoring in Drama and
Performance, 2023. She brings experience ranging across acting, sacred soundscapes
and Japanese Butoh Dance. Her ambition is to cultivate performances for community
and individuals to experience the power of vulnerability. In 2024, Miyela completed an
artist residency program with Le Huit, in Southern France and a two month Butoh
residency with Motoya Kondo, Nagoya, Japan.
Media Contact:
Name: Beetle Miyela
Title: Producer
Phone: 0447340447
Email: beetlemiyela@gmail.com
