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WE love this image by Gregory Lorenzutti. It’s from Phillip
Adams’s BalletLab, for the company’s new production Ever,
made in partnership with Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Ever will premiere in October, 2017, at Temperance Hall in
South Melbourne. Pictured is dancer Ellen Davies.
See http://www.balletlab.com/works/upcomingFeat ured photo
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PHOTO: GREGORY LORENZUTTI
BANGARRA Dance Theatre will premiere a
new work by artistic director Stephen Page this
June. Entitled Bennelong, the work will open at
the Sydney Opera House on 29 June and travel
to Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne through
August and September.
Bennelong explores the life of Woollawarre
Bennelong, a senior man of the Eora, from the
Port Jackson area in Sydney. Living in the days
of first contact between Aboriginal people and
European settlers, Bennelong was one of the
first Aboriginal men to be taken from his people
and introduced to European ways. He was also
one of the first Aboriginal people to have his life
story recorded and documented through the
early diaries of the British military.
A celebrated and mythologised figure,
Bennelong led his community to survive a clash
of cultures with curiosity, courage and
diplomacy. “In a way, we are all Bennelong –
forever trying to navigate our way through two
worlds,” says Page. “Everyone has heard
of the name Bennelong, however his
extraordinary story is not really
understood in the way that shows the
enormous capacity of a man who opened
up the conversation between European
and Aboriginal people.”
See http://www.bangarra.com.au.Bangarra tour
Pictured: Beau
Dean Riley Smith PHOTO: EDWARD MULVIHILL