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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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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Bangarra has announced that dancers Rika Hamaguchi, Baden Hitchcock and Bradley Smith will depart the company following the end of the company’s successful national tour of Wudjang: Not the Past. A Yawuru, Bunaba, Bardi and Jaru Woman from Broome, WA, Bangarra Senior Artist Rika Hamaguchi has beguiled audiences with her presence since commencing with the company […]

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There are dance companies, and then there is Bangarra. Imbued with a purpose that goes beyond performance, the country’s top tier indigenous arts organisation and global standard bearer for Australian First Nations’ storytelling is much more than a prize gig to the company’s newest recruits. Dancing since the age of four (starting with hip hop […]

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