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Dance - traditional and contemporary

dance links

Defining Traditional & Contemporary Dance. by Samantha Chalmers. From the Yanyuwa Land and Life website

Bangarra Dance theatre
based in Sydney

NAISDA Dance College.
also based in Sydney

Kooemba Jdarra
Theatre company based in Brisbane.

Woomera dancers from Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpenteria

Dreaming tracks
a history of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, 1972-1979 : by Raymond Stanley Robinson. Baganan gets a few mentions in here. On the Australian Digital Theses Program website


Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre, Sydney 1979
(Baganan second row from top on right)