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After recently returning from a highly
successful UK tour, which culminated in a sell-out season at London's
prestigious Sadler's Wells, Bangarra Dance Theatre is in the midst
of its busiest year to date.
Currently touring True Stories to the country's large
cities with spellbinding performances in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra,
Wollongong and Newcastle, Bangarra will now present True Stories
to the Sydney audience for a five week season beginning on August
3rd at the Sydney Opera House.
True Stories is a double bill, choreographed by Frances
Rings and Elma Kris, which delivers quintessential Australian tales
taken from the desolate wastelands of Maralinga and the rolling
seas and volcanic sands of the Torres Strait Islands.
After a strong Sydney season, Bangarra will then embrace our regional
towns with a tour of their award winning work, Clan.
Clan is also a double bill, and it features the company's exciting
blend of physical artistry and breathtaking visuals. Created by
award winning choreographer Frances Rings, Clan is dance theatre
at its most captivating. The Clan double bill consists of
Unaipon and Rations.
Unaipon (pronounced You-nigh-pon)
is inspired by the extraordinary passion and genius of Aboriginal
inventor, writer and philosopher David Unaipon who is featured on
our $50 note. Described as 'Australia's Leonardo Da Vinci', Unaipon
(1872-1967) is credited with being the first Aboriginal writer to
be published and with developing modern shearing shears. As a passionate
scholar of theology and philosophy, Unaipon argued that Aboriginal
traditions should be considered equal to those of all the great
cultures of the world. Rings' work Unaipon was first performed
at the 2004 Adelaide
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Bangarra
Takes Clan Regional
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Festival of the Arts and went on
to win a 2004 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement
in Choreography.
"Most Australians recognise
David Unaipon's face from the Australian $50 note but know
little about this extraordinary man. People like Unaipon have
always fascinated me - they straddled Aboriginal and white
culture, they lived in two worlds. They were brave enough
to walk in a land that had no track and they made a track
for us to follow. This is our history, a history shared by
all Australians," says choreographer Frances Rings.
Rations explores mission and station life in colonial
Australia, depicting a remarkable history of struggle and
survival. Rations, Frances Rings' stunning choreographic
debut for Bangarra, was first performed in 2002 as part of
Bangarra's production Walkabout and went on to win
two coveted Helpmann awards for Best New Australian Work and
Score.
Adelaide-born Frances Rings is
a descendant of the Kokatha Tribe and is also of German descent.
She first joined Bangarra in 1993 and has since remained an
integral part of Bangarra's growth into Australia's premier
Indigenous performing arts company.
With a lineup of new talent Bangarra
is set to thrill. This year
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Bangarra has introduced three stunning
new young Indigenous dancers, Jasmin Sheppard, a descendant
of the Walangamma tribe in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Daniel
Riley McKinley, a descendant of the Wiradjuri people from
the Wellington area in western NSW and Katina Olsen, a descendant
of the Waka Waka people in the Central Qld Region.
Waangenga Blanco has also made a welcome return to Bangarra,
joining the current company line-up comprising Sidney Saltner,
Elma Kris, Yolande Brown, Patrick Thaiday, Deborah Brown,
Jhuny-Boy Borja, Leonard Mickelo and Tara Gower.
Regional readers, make sure you get a ticket! Clan
is a chance to see an Australian award winning work right
in your back yard!
Clan Tour Dates:
Port Pirie 25 Sept - 26 Sept
Whyalla 28 Sept - 29 Sept
Renmark 2 Oct - 3 Oct
Mt Gambier 5 Oct - 6 Oct
Launceston 10 Oct - 13 Oct
Shepparton 17 Oct - 19 Oct
Dandenong 22 Oct - 23 Oct
Sale 25 Oct - 26 Oct
Warragul 29 Oct - 30 Oct
Albury 1 Nov - 3 Nov
Wagga Wagga 6 Nov - 7 Nov
Orange 9 Nov - 10 Nov
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Deborah
Brown and Waangenga Blanco.
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