Men and boys from Mowanjum (an Aboriginal community near Derby, Western Australia) perform a traditional dance mimicking the emu, the large flightless bird, when feeding from the ground, accompanied by a song man with clap sticks at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. This is a mixed group of boys and girls from different islands. The dance is from Boigu Island, in the far north of …
Young boys and men from Barunga and Beswick (Wugularr) in the Northern Territory dance on the corroboree ground at the Barunga Festival of 2018, raising plenty of dust; this is followed by a dance from the women; accompanied by song and the didgeridoo (yidaki).
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.
Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.
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.
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