Beyond Bangarra: the centrality of Indigenous art in Australia

With Stephen Page celebrating his 25th year at Bangarra, we explore how white Australia’s attitude to Indigenous art and culture has changed over that time – and where we might be in another quarter-century.
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Yolanda Lowatta in Bangarra’s upcoming production, OUR land people stories. Photo by Edward Mulvihill. 

It’s going to be a busy year for Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, Stephen Page in 2016.

As well as the impending cinematic release of Spear, his debut feature film in March; a regional tour for the company’s 2012 production Terrain; the development of a new triple bill, OUR land people stories (featuring one work choreographed by Page himself) and the company’s other activities, including Bangarra’s youth program Rekindling (soon to visit Victoria and Western Australia for the first time) he is also celebrating his 25th year at the company’s helm.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts