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Australian Dance Party and Catapult Dance performing Connecting Stories: Innovations at the National Portrait Gallery, 2022 Lorna Sim

Let’s dance

Magazine article by Emma Batchelor, 2022

Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
A Dance to the Music of Time (Self portrait), 2022 Wendy Sharpe

A Dance to the Music of Time (Self portrait)

Wendy Sharpe
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Daniel Riley choreographing Hit the Floor Together with QL2 dancers, 2013 Lorna Sim

Daniel Riley choreographing Hit the Floor Together with QL2 dancers

Lorna Sim
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Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

Protest!

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
General content

Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.
Tammi Gissell: WILDomestic, n.d. Lauren Sparkes

Tammi Gissell: WILDomestic

Lauren Sparkes
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Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca, Halaina Hills; New York, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti

Dance like everyone’s watching

About Face article

Penelope Grist’s spirits soar with Lisa Tomasetti’s Dancers in the Streets series.
James Vu Anh Pham and Tara Jade Samaya from 'The Knowledge Between Us', n.d. Pippa Samaya

James Vu Anh Pham and Tara Jade Samaya from 'The Knowledge Between Us'

Pippa Samaya
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Mwaba Mubanga, 2021 Elizabeth Looker

Mwaba Mubanga

Elizabeth Looker
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Wandangula Dancers & the Song People Perform Ngabaya (Spirit People) at the 2014 Malandarri Festival, Yanyuwa Country 2014, n.d. Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis Bayliss

Wandangula Dancers & the Song People Perform Ngabaya (Spirit People) at the 2014 Malandarri Festival, Yanyuwa Country 2014

Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis Bayliss
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David McAllister, n.d. Lisa Tomasetti

David McAllister

Lisa Tomasetti
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Luke Brookes and Ellen Buswell, 2021 Elizabeth Looker

Luke Brookes and Ellen Buswell

Elizabeth Looker
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Museum Dance-off 2016!

Can't get Hugh out of my head...
About Face article

Each year staff from cultural institutions strut their stuff on the international stage for a chance to win fame, glory and a trophy.  But this year our Director, Angus Trumble had other things on his mind...
Corroboree, or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales
Corroboree, or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales
Corroboree, or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales

Corroboree, or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales, 1820

Walter Preston
Portrait, engraving, hand coloured on paper

Purchased 2013

The Dance - David McAllister

David McAllister

In their own words
In their own words

Recorded 2017
Young girl in a dance class waiting to be photographed, 2010 by John Slaytor

Young girl in a dance class waiting to be photographed, 2010

by John Slaytor
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Tanja Liedtke, n.d. Tobin Lush

Tanja Liedtke

Tobin Lush
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