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Yvette Grant, PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne

Flora captures the Australian environment. It is something bold and new in Australian dance

Kate Longley/Bangarra Dance Theatre/The Australian Ballet

In 1950 Australian writer and dancer Jean Garling argued:

Dance reflects [a people’s] reaction to environment, for it is every art, and in its quality can be read the characteristics of a nation.

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