Embedding traditional dance stories and modern dance within Bangarra’s signature style, SandSong is a rich, evocative and powerful production.
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A new film about Bangarra Dance Theatre carries the deep Indigenous knowledge and personal trauma behind its 30-year history.
Bangarra’s Dark Emu is a response to Bruce Pascoe’s book of the same name. But it doesn’t embrace the full potential of its source’s game-changing impact.
The powerful ideological connection between Australia and agriculture is being increasingly scrutinised. A spate of recent books have recast basic assumptions about our relationship to the land.
Bangarra’s current season of three new works, Ones Country, is uneven in parts but worth seeing for the diversity of Indigenous stories from some new choreographic voices.
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Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Literature, Art, and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle