Bangarra's World

Season 1

Bangarra's World takes viewers behind the scenes at Australia's leading Indigenous performing arts company: Bangarra Dance Theatre. Throughout its entire 30th anniversary year cameras joined dancers and creatives on all milestone events. See how Bangarra creates its works and brings back performances 'on country' in communities from which the stories inspiring these works hail; go backstage at the rehearsals of Unaipon and Stamping Ground; travel to Canada and meet other First Nations dancers, and-on regional tour in country Victoria-hear from the dancers what it is like to inhibit iconic roles such as Bennelong and Arthur Philip. In other words: welcome to Bangarra's World.

Where to Watch Bangarra's World • Season 1

6 Episodes

  • Return to Country (Yirrkala)
    E1
    Return to Country (Yirrkala)In Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, Bangarra stages "Nyapanyapa," a work based on the story of local Wynne Prize winning artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu who as a young girl was attacked and mauled by a buffalo and miraculously lived to tell the tale.
  • Taking on Stamping Ground
    E2
    Taking on Stamping GroundFor the first time, Bangarra performs a work by a non-Indigenous artist. But not just any artist and not just any work. Stamping Ground, created by choreographer Jiri Kylian, started life at a corroboree on Groote Eylandt.
  • Being Bennelong
    E3
    Being BennelongMeet Beau Dean Riley Smith, the proud Wiradjuri man who won a Helpmann Award for his role as Woollarawarre Bennelong. What is it like to 'be' or become the Eora nation man who had been so crucial in early British-Indigenous contact?
  • Art of Bangarra
    E4
    Art of BangarraBangarra's works are renowned for their theatricality. Meet the creatives who work closely with Bangarra's choreographers and help bring the company's stories to the stage.
  • Unaipon
    E5
    UnaiponOne of three works performed for Bangarra's 30th anniversary, Unaipon tells the fascinating story of the Aboriginal inventor who graces Australia's fifty-dollar bill.
  • Touring Canada
    E6
    Touring CanadaBangarra tour Canada, a country with a colonial history similar to Australia's, and engage in a joyous cultural exchange at the Six Nations of the Grand River reservation, outside Toronto.

 

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