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All posts tagged "indigenous dance"
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164FeaturedBangarra premieres first-ever visual arts collaboration, ‘Illume’
In 2025, Australia’s leading Indigenous performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, will present the world premiere of its first-ever visual arts collaboration,...
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1.2KFeaturedDanceRites returns with largest on-site competition to date
Australia’s only national dance competition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, DanceRites, returns to the Sydney Opera House Forecourt this November. The...
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1.1KFeaturedBangarra announces the appointment of two new company dancers
Bangarra Dance Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment of two new dancers, who will join the company this month. Chantelle Lee...
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1.5KFeaturedCarriageworks presents world premiere of new dance work by resident company Marrugeku
Carriageworks will present the world premiere of a new dance work by resident company and Australia’s leading Indigenous intercultural dance company Marrugeku. Originally announced...
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1.8KFeaturedThe arc of a dance is long and unbroken: Bangarra’s new dancers
There are dance companies, and then there is Bangarra. Imbued with a purpose that goes beyond performance, the country’s top tier indigenous...
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3.2KFeaturedBangarra appoints new company dancer Emily Flannery
Bangarra is thrilled to announce the appointment of a new company dancer, Emily Flannery, a proud Wiradjuri woman from Forbes in the...
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3.6KFeaturedBangarra’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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2.8KFeaturedOther 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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6.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDjuki Mala: Going beyond indigenous dance
MAP57, St Kilda’s Winter Garden, Melbourne. 22 July 2017. Djuki Mala means “chicken mob”. The Djuki Mala ensemble has refined a startlingly...
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8.1KFeaturedIndigenous dance knowledge protected under new law
The era of instant global communication, like most mass consumption cultural phenomena, has its benefits, its costs and its sometimes surprising fall...
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6.5KFeaturedCelebrating Bangarra’s David Page
This week, the art world lost a treasured ally. Celebrated musician and composer David Page passed away on April 28. David was...
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3.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra performs in Western Sydney for first time in six years
Riverside Parramatta, Sydney. Friday, March 4, 2016. First performed in 2012, this presentation of Terrain is a thrilling, visually stunning revival of Frances Rings’...
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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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6.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra Dance Theatre presents ‘Lore’
Sydney Opera House. July 4, 2015. Two visually stunning, marvellously danced works—both world premieres—were presented in the latest thrilling programme by Bangarra...
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5.6KFeaturesFirst 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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3.7KTop StoriesAn Irresistible Artistic Whirlwind
Living in Melbourne, you could never complain that there’s nothing to do or see. If anything, there are too many things to...
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4.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra – Dance Clan 3
Bangarra Studio Theatre November 19, 2013 By Lynne Lancaster. There were four very strong, excellent works in this sensational programme; a searing...
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4.4KTop StoriesRobert Curran joins Bangarra
Former Australian Ballet principal Robert Curran has moved from centre stage to the wings; but don’t for a moment think he doesn’t mean it...
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4.8KTop StoriesBangarra Dance Theatre’s latest, ‘Blak’
By Grace Edwards. Drawing on the cumulative life experiences of the company’s fourteen members, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s forthcoming production Blak explores rites...
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5.5KFeaturesStoking the fire – Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre goes back to country to pass on the secrets of the flame to the young. By Paul Ransom. Bangarra...
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12.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra Dance Theatre’s Terrain
Sydney Opera House August 3 2012 By Renata Ogayar. Terrain, created by resident choreographer Francis Rings for Bangarra Dance Theatre, truly was...
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5.5K1InterviewsThe Brilliantly Painted Dancer
Inspired by traditional painting, indigenous choreographer Vicki Van Hout brings ancient brush strokes to life in Briwyant. By Paul Ransom. Dance, like...
