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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Applications are now open for Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 2025 Russell Page Graduate dancer(s), as well as professionally contracted dancer position(s). Applications will close on 2 September, with auditions held at Bangarra’s studio on Gadigal Country in Sydney’s Walsh Bay Arts Precinct on Tuesday 17 September. The Russell Page Graduate Program provides opportunities for Aboriginal and […]

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Book: Dance Cultures Around the WorldAuthor: Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang, Human Kinetics, July 2023. Edited by Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang, Dance Cultures Around the World is a major dance reference book. Large, thick and heavy, it is extensively researched and includes maps, timelines and many illustrations. It is divided […]

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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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Arts Centre, Melbourne.29 September 2023.  In her first year as the Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Frances Rings was always going to be tested. Stepping into the role vacated by the company’s founding father and longtime guiding light, Stephen Page, and bringing new work to the stage at a moment of highly charged political fracture, have likely made for 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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The McDonald College is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathryn Dunn as their next Head of Musical Theatre. Dunn is a deeply experienced performing arts practitioner who brings to Australia’s leading performing arts school a wealth of global experience as a performer, director, choreographer, creative, producer, educator, curator and advocate for art and artists. […]

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Book: Falling Through Dance and LifeAuthor: Emilyn Claid, Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2022. Falling Through Dance and Life is a dense, medium sized book, divided into four parts, with an introduction, list of illustrations (peppered throughout the book), a bibliography and an index, written for performance and dance scholars as well as artists in other genres. […]

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Bangarra has announced that Senior Artist Beau Dean Riley Smith will depart after celebrating 10 extraordinary years with the company.  Riley Smith is an Aboriginal man from the Wiradjuri Nation of Central New South Wales and the Gamilaraay Nation of New South Wales. He auditioned for Bangarra after graduating from NAISDA and joined in 2013. […]

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