For solo violin

White Cockatoo Spirit Dance has all the characteristics of a maninya, one of Edwards’ Australian dance chants – a form he evolved throughout the 1980s which has left a definitive stamp on his own and much other recent Australian music.

Vibrant, captivating, life-affirming, and virtuosic, White Cockatoo Spirit Dance is a spontaneous melodic outpouring whose obsessive rhythms appear to have been ritualised from nature. (Edwards claims to have been influenced particularly by the sounds of insects).

White Cockatoo Spirit Dance also exists as a viola solo: the second movement of Enyato II. It has been adapted for violin by the composer.

White Cockatoo Spirit Dance