Aboriginal students from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Townsville Cultural Fest. They enter the main stage with a sweeping dance, followed by a fast "Worrama" dance. The next dance is …

Men and boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Giringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform the Scrub Turkey Dance (making a nest to lay her eggs); after that they march off.

Djarragun College students from the Top Western Islands of Boigu and Saibai in the Torres Strait Islands perform traditional dances during the Girringun Cultural Festival in Cardwell.

Djarragun College students from Iama or Yam Island in Torres Strait Islands perform traditional dances with a guest during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell.

Djarragun College students from Mer or Murray Island in the Eastern Torres Strait Islands, Far North Queensland, perform various traditional dances, including a rather unusual "play dance" during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell.

Aboriginal girl students from Djarragun College near Cairns perform a traditional dance during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform, among others, the “Creation Dance”, depicting the creation of all animals and the gathering of traditional medicine to treat snake …

Aboriginal students from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Girringun Festival in Cardwell. They perform a Welcome Dance, a dance depicting finding bush honey in a tree and the “Mosquito …

Karajarri Dancers - Stompem Ground 2022

The performance and revival of Junba, traditional song and dance, is significant for our community, ensuring the passing on of knowledge and culture to the next generation. Mowanjum Arts and Cultural Centre invites you to experience the unique art and culture of the Worrorra, …

Men of the Yirritja moiety, painted with red ochre and white clay, emerge from the secret ground and perform the dance associated with the Catfish totem, with light steps, hopping on each leg; this is followed by the Bandicoot totem dance, where they sit on their haunches, moving …

Every late afternoon during the weeks the "Mardayin" or "Ngarrag" ceremony takes place, the men paint up and perform various totem dances in their respective moiety groups (Dua and Yirritja) Some men have ceremonial "power bags" in their mouths. The ceremonies start with the …

Boys from Doomadgee, an Aboriginal community in north-western Queensland perform traditional dancing, with the girls dancing in the background, at the yearly Malandarri Festival in Borroloola, Northern Territory, 2018.

A song woman starts the song and boys with the men, women with the girls perform traditional dancing, at the yearly Malandarri Festival in Borroloola, Northern Territory, 2018.

Women and girls perform traditional dancing accompanied by women singing and using clapsticks, at the yearly Malandarri Festival in Borroloola, Northern Territory, 2018.

Boys with the men, women with the girls perform traditional dancing accompanied by women singing and using clapsticks, at the yearly Malandarri Festival in Borroloola, Northern Territory, 2018.

The spectacular finale of Aboriginal song and dance from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory; they dance all together, the women and the men, carrying strips of material, to the singing of the song man, playing of …

Aboriginal song and dancing from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, the women and men, carrying strips of material, with a song man, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.

Aboriginal song and dance from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform dances, first solo to the song of the song man; and, when the didgeridoo starts, all together, with the women among the men, carrying strips of …

Men and women from Elcho Island and Yirrkala, north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Top End of the Northern Territory perform fast dances, carrying woomera (spearthrowers), accompanied by singing, clapsticks and playing of the didgeridoo, at the Barunga Festival, 2018.