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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Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne.28 August 2024. There was something in the air on opening night of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Horizon, the company’s first international collaboration featuring Australian and New Zealand stories. From the excited chatter in the theatre foyer to the audience cheers following a very special Welcome To Country, by the time the […]

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Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, is delighted to announce the world-premiere of its first ever mainstage cross-cultural collaboration, Horizon. This powerful new work from two of the world’s great First Nations choreographers, will premiere at the Sydney Opera House in June before touring across Australia in 2024. […]

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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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The Studio Theatre at Bangarra, Sydney. 10 February 2023.   We are welcomed to the performance of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Dance Clan by a film clip of Frances Rings explaining the history of Dance Clan and Bangarra, and the mentoring and development for this programme. Each of the three works is introduced by the choreographer, putting their […]

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After a 10-year hiatus, Bangarra Dance Theatre has announced the return of Dance Clan in 2023, presented at Bangarra’s own Studio Theatre on Gadigal Country, Walsh Bay, from 3 – 18 February, 2023.  Since its inception in 1998, Dance Clan has fostered the talents of a new generation of storytellers, designers, dancers and choreographers, springboarding choreographic careers of artists […]

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Bangarra Dance Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment of two new dancers, who will join the company this month.  Chantelle Lee Lockhart is a proud descendant of the Dharawal Nation as well as the people of the Eora Nation. Growing up on the NSW Central Coast and Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter, Lockhart has been […]

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Carriageworks, Sydney.22 November 2019. There was a warm, joyous atmosphere when we entered and a great sense of connection to land and country in NAISDA Dance College’s 2019 season, Ngoenakap. Traditional dances, mostly choreographed by Dujon Niue and Sani Townson, were interspersed with and balanced by contemporary ones. Live music accompanied the traditional dances, provided by Niue, Harry […]

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