Warmun Arts Centre outgoingf facilitators Maggie and Gary Fletcher, incoming facilitator Jonathan Kimberley
Clint Dixon, Seamon McPhee, Henley Hunter
Gurirr Gurirr dancers: Peter Thomas, Owen Thomas, Dougie McCale, Andrew Daylight, Gabriel Nodea, Mary Thomas, Gija kids.Mirriwoong Dancers: Chris Griffiths, Andrew Lumai
Gurirr Gurirr singers: Nancy Nodea, Shirley Purdie, Mabel Juli, Gordon Barney, Patrick Mung Mung.
Mirriwoong Wangga singers: Alan Lumai, Quebec Namala
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Aaron Fa’Aoso yarns with Noel Zaro from Torres Strait Islander cultural dance group Gerib Sik, and later shares their Meriam stories, …
Aboriginal students from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances during the Townsville Cultural Fest. The girls perform the "Creation Dance" in which the creation of all animals is depicted. This is followed …
Boys and girls from St. Therese's School (now called Murrapurtiyanuwu) on Bathurst Island in the far north of Australia learn traditional dancing during afternoons at school dedicated to Tiwi Aboriginal culture. This was filmed in 1987.
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.
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.
The Lockhart River 'Kawadji Wimpa' Dancers performing live at the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival on 1 August, 2015 at Fo
UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigegarty Park, Cairns.
The Lockhart River 'Kawadji Wimpa' Dancers were the winners of the 2015 Laura …
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 …
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