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Australian dance troupe earns deadly international gong

A First Nations dance company is set to be awarded a major accolade at the Venice Biennale - but says it represents just 35 of 65,000 years of stories.

AAP · Jul 9

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

In 1950 Australian writer and dancer Jean Garling argued:

The Conversation · Mar 16

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.

AAP · Mar 11

'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.'

The Canberra Times · Jul 20, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Dec 29, 2022

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.

ABC News · Jun 6, 2022