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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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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Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.  Thursday, June 16, 2016. This most impressive triple bill, OUR land people stories, fuses visual arts, history, family and culture in three exciting works. The choreography for all three works is dazzling and trademark Bangarra, blending traditional Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander and contemporary dance, and it was magnificently performed. First was Macq, choreographed […]

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Bangarra Dance Theatre dancer Tara Gower says it like this: “For myself, and for indigenous people generally, the landscape is within me. The land and the plants and the animals can’t speak; and so we as humans are the speaking voice for them.” What this reflects is not simply the complex and ancient cosmology and […]

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Bangarra Studio Theatre November 19, 2013 By Lynne Lancaster. There were four very strong, excellent works in this sensational programme; a searing comment on our times. Dance Clan 3 was part of the indigenous arts and culture festival Corroboree. Stephen Page commissioned four of the female senior artists of his company to create works.  Dance […]

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