The Sydney Opera House has announced the full program of competing dance groups, hosts and special guest performances for DanceRites 2024. The free celebration of First Nations dance, song and culture will welcome nearly 300 performers to the Opera House Forecourt when it returns on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October. Twenty dance groups representing over 40 […]

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This May, the Sydney Opera House’s UnWrapped series presents two new Australian works by critically acclaimed independent artists Mish Grigor and Thomas E.S. Kelly and collaborators. Making their Sydney premieres in two short seasons, Class Act (1 – 4 May) from Melbourne’s experimental APHIDS and SILENCE (8 – 11 May) from groundbreaking First Nations dance company Karul Projects will interrogate rifts in […]

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Australia’s only national dance competition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, DanceRites, returns to the Sydney Opera House Forecourt this November. The free event will be the largest on-site iteration of the competition since it began in 2015. Twenty-five dance groups and more than 350 performers from over 30 nations and clans across Australia will take to the Forecourt in a […]

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