Bangarra Dance Theater

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The Bangarra Dance Theater is an Australian dance theater in Sydney on Hickson Road that blends the traditions, history and culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with the modern. The theater became internationally known for its appearance on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney in 2000. Today in 2009 this dance theater has an undisputed international reputation and has become a mediator between cultures.

The Dance Theater follows the more than 40,000 year old tradition of the Australian Aborigines; It incorporates the traditional art of dance and the dream time into the reality of life and combines this with modern artistic representation.

founding

The Bangarra Dance Theater was founded in 1989 by Carole Johnson , the Afro-American director of the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA). Bangarra means to make fire in the Wiradjuri language .

Stephen Page was the first artistic director from 1991 and the theater first produced a multi-hour performance Praying Mantis Dreaming in 1992 , which was followed by new productions almost annually. Besides the Australian ones, the international appearances in the USA and Great Britain were particularly successful .

International tours

In 2001 the dance theater toured sixteen cities in the USA and made its dance art known internationally for the first time. This was followed by an invitation to the Monaco Dance Forum , and in 2004 another USA tour took place, which took her to New York and Washington and in 2005 to Japan and New Zealand . In 2006 the group performed in London and in 2008 in the US, UK and Europe. In April 2009 she went to Europe and u. a. to Wolfsburg in Germany.

2009 program

True Stories , the 2009 program, is a choreography called Emeret Lu (Very Old Things) that combines traditional and contemporary dance with real world environments such as rain, wind and chase. The second choreography X300 is about the suffering that was inflicted in the 1950s by the Australian-English atomic bomb tests , near Maralinga and on the Montebello Islands , by radioactive fallout, above all on the Aboriginal peoples and the entire world population.

Pieces

  • 1992 - Praying Mantis Dreaming
  • 1995 - Ochres
  • 1997 - Fish
  • 1997 - Rites
  • 2000 - skin
  • 2001 - Corroboree
  • 2002 - Walkabout
  • 2003 - Bush
  • 2004 - Unaipon
  • 2004 - CLAN
  • 2005 - Boomerang
  • 2006 - Gathering
  • 2007 - True Stories
  • 2008 - Mathinna
  • 2009 - True Story
  • 2010 - of earth & sky
  • 2012 - Terrain
  • 2013 - Blak
  • 2014 - Patyegarang and Kinship
  • 2015 - lore

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