It's Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip-hop meets Japanese love song. A lone cowboy blows into town, stirring its ghosts for a long and wild night, as past and present dance it out on the street.

Performed by the acclaimed Broome based Marrugeku company, Burning Daylight combines the unique performance styles of Western Australian Indigenous dancers and musicians with Malaysian martial arts and the company's visual and acrobatic performance language.

This high energy production incorporates old and new forms to conjure an image of today's Broome - the traces of its past as wild frontier town still real, but also mythologised in glossy tourist brochures. Pumping beats and rhymes create a vibrant, contemporary sound live on stage that contrast with gentle guitar strums and melodies evoking outback campfires.

Whips crack, geishas perform ceremony, pearl fisherman take to the sea. Karaoke singers croon and a hip hop MC raps, while memories flicker on screen of their grandparents' generation's experiences: White Australia policy deportations, and laws against inter-racial marriage.