weaving, fishing and learning language through singing and dancing. Workshops were held at two schools on Bathurst Island - Murrupurtiyanuwu Catholic School and Xavier Catholic College and were very popular, with the majority of students in both schools in attendance. At the request of the community Elders we also held an impromptu performance, which was reciprocated with the students then performing their traditional dances for Bangarra, in a true display of shared knowledge and culture. The group also travelled across the Apsley Strait to Melville Island to hold workshops at the Tiwi College: a small, isolated school of 60 students. Tiwi College is located at Pickataramoor, created to house the school at a site that is central to the Tiwi Islands three main communities.
In November, the company had the privilege of taking Frances Rings’ stunning work Terrain back to Country in regional South Australia. Set at the picturesque Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre in South Australia, Rings created the work in 2012 in consultation with Arabunna Elder Uncle Reg Dodd. Bangarra held a Community performance for 60 people in the remote of Marree on 4 November. The dancers also visited the expansive salt lake with Uncle Reg and his family and were able to connect with the place that inspired Rings’ acclaimed choreography.
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