Two men of the Yirritja moiety perform the "Salt water dance", leaping past one another, representing waves meeting and crashing; the dancers constantly leap up and down, representing a choppy sea. The women dance along the side, their hands held horizontally. The men then run …
Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses.
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Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.
This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains …
Men and women from Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory sing and perform dances associated with fire, sunrise and the land; at the Barunga Festival, 2018.
Djarragun College students from the Torres Strait islands perform traditional dances 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 the Torres Strait. The song is by Afa Anau …
Men of the Yirritja moiety enter the ceremonial ground to the sound of clapsticks, lightly hopping on each leg, a dance associated with the Catfish totem; they group around the "Jirawara" ceremonial forked pole which is the focal point of the ceremony and perform the Bandicoot …
Young boys from Borroloola perform the “Aeroplane Dance”, about a Second World War event when an American bomber came down near there and a crew member was rescued by local Aborigines.
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