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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Graeme Murphy, Christopher Wheeldon, Andy Blankenbuehler, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Gattelli, Stephen Page and Benjamin Curé. We spoke to the Director of Lion Heart Dance Company to find out how he came to be included in such an inspiring list and how his work is now a part of the Victorian Dance Curriculum. Curé was introduced […]

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The 39th Adelaide Festival, the first of the next three Festivals curated by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and Chief Executive Kath M Mainland CBE, invites citizens, artists and communities to help shape the way the Festival can support and inspire us all. Mackenzie and Mainland bring international festival experience from Melbourne, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Paris, […]

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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 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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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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The Australian Performing Arts Collection presents Rites: Dancing towards a shared history, a digital exhibition exploring the first ever collaboration between Bangarra Dance Theatre and The Australian Ballet. The online exhibition and podcast celebrates the 25th anniversary of this ground-breaking work through striking imagery, footage, music and soundbites featuring Stephen Page, David McAllister, Frances Rings, Djakapurra Munyarryun, Steven Heathcote, Miranda Barker (née Coney) and Charles Barker. “This is a beautiful coming together […]

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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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Bangarra Dance Theatre has announced the appointment of Kokatha woman Frances Rings as the company’s incoming artistic director. Rings will take on the role as Stephen Page announces that he will step down as Bangarra artistic director in early 2023. Announcing the appointment, Bangarra Dance Theatre Chair Phillipa McDermott said, “Whilst this marks the end […]

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In a first-time co-production, two powerhouse arts companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company, will join forces to present the world premiere of Wudjang: Not the Past, an epic-scale contemporary corroboree, and Bangarra’s largest stage production to date. Wudjang: Not the Past will premiere at Sydney Festival 2022 from 14 January to 12 February 2022. Wudjang: Not […]

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