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NAISDA
The NAISDA Dance College (usually referred to as simply NAISDA) is a performing arts training college based in Kariong, New South Wales for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. It was established as the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme (AISDS) in 1975, which became the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) in 1988. The date of establishment of the college is usually cited as 1976, although some sources report it as 1975. The dance troupe Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) arose in 1976 from AISDS, from which several dancers and choreographers went on to form Bangarra Dance Theatre. History 1975–1999 The Aboriginal/ Islander Skills Development Scheme was founded by African American dancer Carole Johnson in 1975. She had toured Australia, performing in Adelaide and Sydney, in 1972, as part of the Eleo Pomare Dance Company of New York City, and was commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Stone
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ... dance company focused on contemporary dance. It was founded by African American dancer and choreographer Carole Johnson (dancer), Carole Y. Johnson, Gumbaynggirr man Rob Bryant, and South African-born Cheryl Stone. ''Bangarra'' (pronounced ''bungurra'') means "to make fire" in the Wiradjuri language. Stephen Page was artistic director from 1991 to 2021, with Frances Rings taking over in 2022. The company has received many Helpmann Awards as well as other accolades. To date (2024), ''Bennelong'' (2017) and ''Dark Emu '' (2018) have been Bangarra's most successful works, playing to huge audiences around the country. History Bangarra Dance Theatre was founded in Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company focused on contemporary dance. It was founded by African American dancer and choreographer Carole Y. Johnson, Gumbaynggirr man Rob Bryant, and South African-born Cheryl Stone. ''Bangarra'' (pronounced ''bungurra'') means "to make fire" in the Wiradjuri language. Stephen Page was artistic director from 1991 to 2021, with Frances Rings taking over in 2022. The company has received many Helpmann Awards as well as other accolades. To date (2024), ''Bennelong'' (2017) and ''Dark Emu '' (2018) have been Bangarra's most successful works, playing to huge audiences around the country. History Bangarra Dance Theatre was founded in October 1989 by Carole Y. Johnson, an African-American modern dancer and founder of the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), Rob Bryant, a Gumbaynggirr man and graduate of NAISDA, and Cheryl Stone, a South African-born student at NA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Johnson (dancer)
Carole Yvonne Johnson (born 1940) is an African American contemporary dancer and choreographer, known for her role in the establishment of the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), and as co-founder of Bangarra Dance Theatre in Australia. Early in her career she became a lead dancer in the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, and Pomare had a profound influence on her dancing style. She is also an activist, arts administrator and researcher. Early life and education Carole Yvonne Johnson was born in Jersey City, New Jersey of African-American descent. Her father, Fred S. A. Johnson, formed a branch of the YMCA in North Philadelphia, and Carole grew up Philadelphia. The family was middle class, and she trained in classical ballet as a child. As a teenager, she studied at the Philadelphia Ballet Guild under British choreographer Antony Tudor (who founded the school in the mid-1950s, and mentored black students there). She also trained under Sydney Gibson Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Theatre (Sydney)
The National Black Theatre (NBT) was a theatre company run by a small group of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people based in the Sydney suburb of Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern which operated from 1972 to 1977. The original concept for the theatre grew out of political struggles, especially the Indigenous land rights in Australia, land rights demonstrations, which at the time were being organised by the Black Moratorium Committee. The centre held workshops in modern dancing, tribal dancing, writing for theatre, karate and photography, and provided a venue for new Aboriginal drama. It also ran drama classes under Brian Syron, whose students included Jack Davis (playwright), Jack Davis, Freddie Reynolds, Maureen Watson, Lillian Crombie, and Hyllus Maris. The company ran the Black Theatre Arts and Culture Centre from 1974 to 1977. History Precedents Bob Maza and others got involved in community theatre in Melbourne after Maza had travelled to the United States and been im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) was the first dance company used to train Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students on their dancing career, and grew into a performance group. Originating in the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (predecessor to NAISDA), it was based in Sydney, New South Wales, and operated from 1976 to 1998. History The group has its origins in "Careers in Dance", a full-time dance training course established in 1975 for Aboriginal and Islander students by the Aboriginal Arts Board and headed by African American dancer Carole Johnson, who had links to the Black Power movement in the United States. She set up classes in St James Church Hall in the Sydney suburb of Glebe, where the training included traditional as well as contemporary styles of dance. The group of student dancers established in 1976 grew to include teachers as well as advanced and graduate students of the NAISDA ( National Aboriginal and Islander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Watson
Maureen Watson, also known as "Aunty Maureen" (9 November 1931 – 4 January 2009), was an Aboriginal Australian activist actor, vocalist, writer, musician, and storyteller. Early life and education Maureen Watson was born on 9 November 1931, in Rockhampton, Queensland, her mother's Kungulu country and attended school in the Dawson Valley, where she involved herself heavily in sport. In 1944, at the age of 13, she was forced to leave her education after obtaining a serious injury falling off a horse. During adolescence, she worked alongside her father and developed skills in shooting kangaroos, trapping dingos, mustering, droving and branding cattle, picking cotton, planting seed crops, driving tractors and bulldozing. Throughout her childhood, her family and visitors talked of political and social issues, which with her natural storytelling ability, assisted her in the rest of her life. In 1952, at the age of 21, Watson married Harold Bayles, a Wakka Wakka man from Eidsvol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kariong, New South Wales
Kariong () is a List of Central Coast suburbs, locality of the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia west of Gosford, New South Wales, Gosford along the Central Coast Highway. It is part of the Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area. History Kariong's first British settler was W.H. Parry in 1901. The Mt Penang Training School for Boys (later the Mount Penang Juvenile Justice Centre) was opened in 1911. Many of the boys came from the training ship Sobraon, which had been in Sydney Harbour before being condemned, as did former officer Basil Topple. The village of about fifteen families, mostly workers at the training school, was first called Kendall Heights, then Penang Mountain. The name Kariong was assigned in about 1947. Kariong Mountains High School opened in 2010 at Kariong. Etymology According to the Geographical Names Board, Kariong means "meeting place" in the local Aboriginal language. Geography K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Crombie
Lillian Crombie (1958 – 3 January 2024), also known as "Aunty Lillian", was an Aboriginal Australian actress and dancer, known for her work on stage, film and television. Early life and education Lillian Crombie was born in 1958. She was of the Pitjantjatjara/ Yankunytjatjara people of central Australia, but was taken from her parents at the age of seven and never saw them again. She grew up in a loving home with foster parents in Port Pirie, South Australia. Crombie trained in classical ballet at the Port Pirie Ballet School, before winning a scholarship to Dance Concert Limited in Sydney, which started at the beginning of 1975, when she was 16. There she learnt and performed various cultural dances, such as the maypole dance, and in that year also did a dance and drama course at the National Black Theatre in Redfern. She then joined National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) as one of their first intake of students in 1976, and joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Donnelly
The Aboriginal Dance Theatre Redfern (ADTR) is an Australian non-profit organisation providing cultural and dance programs for Aboriginal Australian, located in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. It was founded in 1979 by Christine Donnelly, who remains executive director . ADTR instigated the founding of the National Aboriginal Dance Council Australia (NADCA) in 1995. History The Aboriginal Dance Theatre was founded in 1979 by Christine Donnelly, who remains at the helm as director . The idea of the theatre was based in political struggles, in particular the land rights activism of the 1970s. Donnelly had been a participant in the Six Weeks Performing Arts Training Programme held in Redfern (which later led to the development of NAISDA Dance College, and, indirectly, Bangarra Dance Theatre). It was originally housed in the National Black Theatre building, and both organisations used theatre as a form of political action. Donnelly states that her objective in establishing the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleo Pomare Dance Company
Eleo Pomare (20 October 1937 – 8 August 2008) was a Colombian-American modern dance choreographer. Known for his politically-charged productions depicting the Black experience, his work had a major influence on contemporary dance, especially Black dance. He founded the Eleo Pomare Modern Dance Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands (1960-1963), and, after returning to the United States, established the Eleo Pomare Dance Company in New York City in 1964, which continued after his death. After a tour to Australia in 1972, and the subsequent return of his then lead dancer, Carole Johnson, his style of dancing continues to influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander modern dancers. Early life and education Eleo Pomare was born on 20 October 1937 in Santa Marta, Colombia, where on 19 June 1940 his sister Selina Forbes Pomare also was born. His father - James "Tawney" Forbes of Haitian/French ancestry - was captain of a cargo ship which while near Colón, Panama during World War II w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Davis (playwright)
Jack Leonard Davis (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Aboriginal Australian activist. His work incorporates themes of Aboriginality and their identity. It also includes many Aboriginal traditions and cultural practises. (Made By Reuben Horne) While known for his literary work, Davis did not focus on writing until his fifties. His writing centred around the Aboriginal experience in relation to the settlement of white Australians. His collection of poems ''The First Born'' (1970) was his first work to be published, and made him the first Aboriginal Australian man and second Aboriginal person to have published poetry. He later focused his writing on plays, starting with ''Kullark,'' which was first performed in 1979. His plays were recognised internationally and were performed in Canada and England. Early life and education Jack Leonard Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he spent most of his life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performing Arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance. Theatre, music, gymnastics, object manipulation, and other kinds of performances are present in all human cultures. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times whereas circus skills date to at least Ancient Egypt. Many performing arts are performed professionally. Performance can be in purpose-built buildings, such as theatres and opera houses; on open air stages at festivals; on stages in tents, as in circuses; or on the street. Live performances before an audience are a form of entertainment. The development of audio and video recording has allowed for private consumption of the performin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
