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All posts tagged "Bangarra"
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2.0KFeaturedSydney Opera House presents Dance Rites 2020
The Sydney Opera House will present its sixth annual Dance Rites festival online next month, bringing together 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance...
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2.0KFeaturedTwo dance films set to premiere
This year’s Adelaide Film Festival program, which runs 14 – 25 October, includes the premiere of dance films from two of Australia’s...
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1.8KFeaturedDance leaders in a pandemic: Like nobody told us how
What if the virus is a blessing? An invitation? A crack that widens to allow a new way of being and making...
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4.6KFeaturedLocked up with the leadership group
Autumn 2020 in Australia has indeed been a season of shedding, as a tiny RNA virus arrived to upend the status quo....
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2.0KFeaturedDance with thy neighbour: Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Dance Company
Some things are too good not to be true. That two of the country’s flagship dance companies, near neighbours geographically, should find ways to...
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3.8KDance AdviceWhat is it like to be an independent dance artist?
“I like to think that maybe I was the dancer who took the road less travelled,” she says. “But with that, obviously,...
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2.7KFeaturedBangarra 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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3.5KFeaturedBangarra’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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2.7KFeaturedOther 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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4.8KDance AdviceJuggling 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...
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4.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra 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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5.8KFeaturedStephen 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...
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4.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra 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...
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5.1KFeaturedHomeground 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...
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8.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra 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...
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5.2KFeaturedBangarra 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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6.1KFeaturedI 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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7.1KFeaturesVicki 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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5.1KDance News AustraliaDance 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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5.5KFeaturesFirst 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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3.4KAustralian Dance Reviews4Tell – YouMove Company
Parramatta Riverside Theatre October 27 2011 By Dolce Fisher The latest installment from youMove, presented by Form Dance Projects, showed how this...
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9.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra – Belong
Sydney Opera House July 2011 By Lynne Lancaster Belong gives us two very strong, exciting and powerful works from Bangarra in a...
