Clan : Bangarra Dance Theatre Hardcover

Greg Barrett

2014 marks the twenty-fifth year of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's leading Indigenous performing arts organisation. Clan honours this milestone and pays tribute to the people who have inspired the company and its thousands of performances over the years. In this extraordinary collection of images, Bangarra artistic director Stephen Page and one of Australia's foremost photographers, Greg Barrett, come together to record and skilfully give shape to the dancer's most magical, ephemeral moments. Enter the dancers' world and experience the personal, the professional and the sacred moments of artistic expression. This is the Bangarra Dance Theatre

1743360983

English

MURDOCH BOOKS

5 December 2013

176

Stephen Page is the legendary artistic director of Bangarra, Australia's premier Indigenous performing arts company. Established in 1989, BDT produces distinctive dance theatre productions that tour each year to capital cities, regional towns and remote communities of Australia and throughout the world. Greg Barrett is one of Australia's foremost photographers with a special interest in dance and the performing arts. Since becoming a professional photographer at the age of thirty-three, he has worked extensively in film direction, fashion photography, advertising and portraiture. His work forms part of the permanent collection of the National Library in Canberra and his photography is widely collected and is seen as a reference point for the possibilities of what the human body can achieve in non-verbal expression.

Stephen Page