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Stephen Page with poster for "Praying Mantis Dreaming" 1992

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Culture and customs Making Fire: Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia

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Enmore Theatre

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Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

Making Fire: Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia

Named after the Wiradjuri word meaning 'to make fire', Bangarra Dance Theatre is Australia's most renowned Indigenous dance theatre company. Fusing traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance, song, story and culture with contemporary modern dance, Bangarra has been fuelling the growth of Indigenous contemporary work from the day it sprouted as a young, community-based dance company in inner Sydney in 1989

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Enmore Theatre

Longest running theatre and entertainment venue in Sydney. It has a distinctive Art Deco facade.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia

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Dance company that fused contemporary techniques with traditional Indigenous dance.

Page, Stephen

Dancer and choreographer best known for his association with the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

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