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

In 1950 Australian writer and dancer Jean Garling argued:

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From Bangarra and Aust ballet grow seeds of a new dance

From the first seed to eucalypts, weeds and fires, Flora is the first full length collaboration between the Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Illume is spectacle with heart and spirit, a thrilling manifestation of Country

The stage is covered in stars that fill the depth of the space. When the 18 dancers slowly gather, they move through a night sky.

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Illume: Capturing light and Country through dance

The phenomenon of light is central to Bangarra's 2025 production, Illume, and marks the first collaboration between the troupe and an Indigenous visual artist.

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‘A revolutionary moment’: what’s the future for Indigenous Australian dance?

The ancient storytelling tradition has a long political history. In the wake of the voice referendum, finding resources and audiences takes on a fresh urgency

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From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free

The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks

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'A remarkable time for our country': Bangarra on truth-telling in the time of The Voice

'These conversations, Blackfellas have been wanting to have for so long. As artists, we've been truth-telling since Bangarra started, because we had no space to truth tell.'

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5 Australian women choreographers you should know (and where to see them in 2023)

“Ballet is woman” claimed the legendary New York choreographer George Balanchine. But “where are all the women ballet choreographers?” asked researchers Oellen A. Meglin and Lynn Matluck Brooks in 2012. They found only 23 articles on women ballet choreographers in the New York Times’ 171-year history.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre’s incoming artistic director Frances Rings takes over later this year, but first she revives the award-winning Terrain

Frances Rings joined the contemporary Indigenous dance company in 1993 and, after nearly three decades, will take the helm as the company’s first Indigenous woman artistic director later this year.

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