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Funding boost for Aboriginal artists
The Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre, and the Biennale of Sydney will help emerging Aboriginal artists kickstart their careers, following an injection of more than $1 million funding from the NSW Government. The funding will support new programs, partnerships and jobs in the State’s Aboriginal arts and cultural sector, Minister for the Arts, George […]
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Bangarra Community Night performance
Bangarra Dance Theatre commences 2011 with three key events, comprising two vital fundraising performances and one of the biggest European tours the company has ever undertaken. Special performances of the awe-inspiring Spirit will take place at the Sydney Theatre on February 4 for indigenous communities affected bythe Queensland Floods and on February 5 in support […]
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You’ve got to move it!
Making exercise fun isn’t always easy, but that’s exactly what a brand new television show has in mind for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Move it Mob Style is the name of a new dance based television show being produced by Deadly TV that aims to not only get you moving, but also to […]
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Celebrity Health – Yoalnde Bown
She’s performed in some of Bangarra’s biggest productions, and even won a Deadly Award for Dancer of the Year. Deadly Vibe sits down to yarn with Yolande Brown. Statistics Height 166cmAge (Cant ask a lady that question!)Mob Bidjara Occupation Performing ArtistNickname Yo, YolliePets Brindabella Brothers and Sisters One Brother Julian How long have you been […]
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Nikki Ashby
Nikki Ashby, aka Essentz or Miss DOO WOP, is a descendant of the Kaurna and Narrunga peoples from South Australia. She has an outstanding professional background as a dancer, choreographer, director, actor, hip hop specialist and movement teacher. She has over 20 years performance experience on stage and has outstanding credits in television, stage works, […]
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Bboy 2ezy – He’s Unstoppable
Bboy 2ezy is the lone Indigenous dancer in the country’s number-one break dancing crew. Indigenous break dancer Bboy 2ezy is on a roll at the moment. Not only did he pick up the 2009 Deadly award for Best Dancer last October, but he also performed earlier this year at the National Break Dancing Championships where […]
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Leah Purcell – Queen Leah
Deadly Vibe Issue 157 March 2010 Despite a hugely successful career in acting, directing and music, Leah Purcell remains humble and ready to learn more about her craft Leah recently landed a role in the Bell Shakespeare production of King Lear . “Acting in Shakespeare is like playing jazz – there are actual rules you […]
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Rachael and Lisa Maza – Sister Act
From theatre and live music to puppets … a new show by The Maza Sisters has it all. As the daughters of Bob Maza, one of the founding fathers of Indigenous theatre and an acclaimed actor, director, writer, comedian and musician, Lisa Maza and Rachael Maza Long are proud to be following in their father’s […]
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Page 8 returns
Five years since its last showing at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, David Page will return to the stage later this month in special two week return season of Page 8. Page 8 is a coming of age story, about how the eighth child in a family of twelve grew up in a housing […]
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Bangarra Dance Theatre – Twenty years of making fire
Bangarra’s dance continues across the millennia Bangarra, from the Wiradjuri “to make fire” still burns with creative energy after 20 years with an extensive touring schedule this year and a retrospective production, Fire, opening in August. It is a wonder that artistic director and choreographer Stephen Page has time to reflect on how it all […]
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Hunter Page – Destiny Hunter
Leaping New York’s skyscrapers in a single bound is on the books for another Page His Australian-US parents have scaled the heights of the international dance scene but his creative instincts are seeking out a career in film. Hunter Page-Lochard approaches manhood with many worlds at his feet. You might expect that the son of […]
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Dancing With Destiny – Sermsah Bin Saad
Sometimes things happen for a reason, almost like the universe has reached out and tapped you on the shoulder, drawing your attention towards a new path in life. This is certainly how things happened for Sermsah Bin Saad, or Suri as Australia has come to know him through the hit reality TV show So You […]
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Mathinna (May 16 – August 23)
Bangarra Dance Theatre continues to resonate world-wide as an acclaimed contemporary dance company of unique style committed to the traditions of Indigenous culture. In 2008 Bangarra Dance Theatre presents Mathinna, an exhilarating brand new work by Stephen Page. Inspired by a young girl’s journey between two cultures, Mathinna traces the history of a young Aboriginal […]
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Kevin Kropinyeri Jr
Kevin belongs to the Ngarrindjeri Nation of the lower River Murray and Lakes region in South Australia. He grew up along the River Murray in his home towns of Tailem Bend and Murray Bridge. The desire to paint lay dormant until July 2005 when Kevin was living and working in Bourke (Far Western New South […]
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Love’s Young Dream
Deadly Vibe Issue 132 – February 2008 A proud Ngoongar woman takes on one of theatre’s most famous roles. [Photo credit: David Johns] STORY: It’s the world’s greatest love story – a tale of star-crossed lovers and feuding families, poetry and passion, humour and tragedy. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet may be over 400 years old, […]
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Shining the Light
Deadly Vibe Issue 131 – January 2008 The future of the Indigenous arts is in good hands. STORY: Speaking to Deadly Vibe just a few days before the Federal Election, Wesley Enoch is feeling quietly optimistic about the future. “I sense that there will be a change,” he says. “But no matter what happens at […]
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