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Bangarra 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand. Photo by Daniel Boud

Bangarra Dance Theatre: How to make a fire

We are in Melbourne, early spring, and the house is packed once again. 30 Years Of Sixty Five Thousand is finishing its near...

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Bangarra’s ‘Dubboo’: Blood and song (and 20 Tina Turners)

The word “family” is one of the many overused memes of marketing; but in the case of Bangarra Dance Theatre, its application...

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Other space/Same place: NAISDA’s ‘StoryPlace’

As another year moves to a close, it’s time once more for a batch of EOY productions. For multi-award-winning dancer/choreographer (and now...

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Dance Advice

Juggling a dance career with children: Daniel Riley, Bangarra Dance Theatre

To date, our series about professional dance artists juggling their career with parenting has focused on female dancers. In this month’s issue...

Bangarra in 'Dark Emu'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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Australian Dance Reviews

Bangarra Dance Theatre brings Aboriginal history to life in ‘Dark Emu’

Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 14 June 2018. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Dark Emu, is visually stunning and superbly choreographed and danced. More abstract...

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Stephen Page’s ‘Dark Emu’: The animation of negative space

That a recently published book which examines pre-colonial land management amongst Australia’s First Nation peoples should directly inspire a dance work isn’t...

Bangarra Dance Ensemble in 'Ngathu'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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Australian Dance Reviews

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s powerful ‘ONES COUNTRY: the spine of our stories’

Carriageworks, Sydney. 24 November 2017. A most exciting triple bill by Bangarra Dance Theatre, three world premieres combined under the umbrella title...

Rako Pasefika. Photo courtesy of Pasefika.

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Homeground First Nations festival at the Sydney Opera House

Are you in Sydney? Get down to Sydney Opera House in November for Homeground on 25-26 November 2017. It’s a free event...

Tara Robertson, Beau Dean Riley Smith and Kaine Sultan-Babij in Bangarra's 'Bennelong'. Photo by Vishal Pandey.

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Australian Dance Reviews

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Bennelong’: Of loss and longing

Sydney Opera House, Sydney. July 4, 2017. Another visually stunning, sensationally danced work from marvellous Bangarra Dance Theatre, Steven Page’s Bennelong is also...

Choreographers Djakapurra Munyarryun, Elma Kris and Kaine Sultan Babij for Bangarra Dance Theatre's 'ONES COUNTRY'. Photo by Edward Mulvihill.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre welcomes 2017 with new works

After a challenging 2016, including the sad death of the company’s Music Director David Page, Bangarra Dance Theatre is kicking off the...

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I Am the Colours: Bangarra Dance Theatre Presents ‘Ochres’

Bangarra Dance Theatre dancer Tara Gower says it like this: “For myself, and for indigenous people generally, the landscape is within me....

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Vicki Van Hout Down in the Long Grass

By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. Drawing inspiration from the homeless population of Darwin and the women of Arnhem Land, choreographer Vicki...

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Dance News Australia

Dance in Sydney this Winter

By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. Looking for something dancey to do or see in Sydney this winter? Here are our top...

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First Contact

Bangarra’s mission to unearth the secret history of black Sydney will culminate this June with the world premiere of Patyegarang. By Paul...

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Australian Dance Reviews

4Tell – YouMove Company

Parramatta Riverside Theatre October 27 2011 By Dolce Fisher The latest installment from youMove, presented by Form Dance Projects, showed how this...