Garabari is a high energy dance gathering where Wiradjuri story meets a pulsing techno beat.

Step onto the dance floor, join the movement and feel the shared spirit of corroboree as traditional song and modern sound come alive together.

Garabari is a participatory dance gathering created with Elders and community leaders. The theatre becomes a shared dance floor where a pulsing techno beat and Wiradjuri song meet.

Audiences join in movement, call and response and group dance, gaining a real sense of what a modern corroboree feels like while seeing how traditional stories and language continue to live and grow today.

Mob Tickets available

We are proud to offer this community ticketing initiative for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and other First Nations communities, as a way to connect with those who share the rich culture and history that is sewn through our storytelling. Book Mob Tickets here.

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Lee Christofis, Limelight Magazine

"An enlivening experience that celebrates our earth, our first peoples and everyone else in the freest way imaginable."

John Baily, The Age

"Bray’s works don’t look like conventional dance... They also feel different because you experience them in your own skin. He thinks of his audiences as ‘co-storytellers’ because they’re inside the work they’re watching."

CAST & CREATIVES

Joel Bray (Choreographer/Director) Wiradjuri
Christopher Kirkbright (Project Elder Uncle), Wiradjuri
Uncle James Ingram (Collaborating Elder)
Uncle Christopher Kirkbright and Letetia Harris (Song written, translated and performed)
Katie Sfetkidis (Lighting and Projection Designer)
Byron Scullin (Sound & Music)
Gideon Cozens (Associate Sound Designer)
Luke George (Dramaturg)
Denni Francisco (Costume Designer), Wiradjuri
Veronica Bolzon (Joel Bray Dance Executive Producer)
Merindah Donnelly (BlakDance Co-CEO Executive Producer) Wiradjuri
Simon Cook (BlakDance Production Manager) Mamu
Luke Peacock (BlakDance Associate Producer) Samsep/Meriam
Denise Wilson (BlakDance Community Engagement & Tour Manager) Kamilaroi
Belinda Gerard (Stage Manager)
Brandon Smith (Technical Manager)

Touring Cast

Chandler Connell (Performer) Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal
Glory Tuohy-Daniell (Performer) Indjalandji Dhidhanu, Alyewarre
Karlia Cook (Performer) European, Mā’ohi and Māori descent, hailing from Norfolk Island,
Hitiaurevareva (Pitcairn Island) and Ngāpuhi iwi on the North Island of Aotearoa.
Kiarn Doyle (Performer) Dunghutti
Luke Currie-Richardson (Performer) Kuku Yalanji, Djabugay, Mununjali, Butchulla and Meriam
Nadiyah Akbar (Performer)
Olivia Adams (Performer)
Shiobhan McKenna (Performer)
Zoe Brown-Holten (Performer) Dunghutti Gomeroi

NON Studio (Screen Video Production)
Carolyn Conners (Additional voices and voice textures)

ACCESSIBILITY

In English.

Wheelchair accessible.

Companion Card accepted.

Assistive Hearing system available (FM).

Find out more about accessibility at PHIVE.

Additional Ticketing Information

$7.95 Transaction Fee applies.

The authorised ticket agency for this event is Riverside Theatres.

Only tickets purchased by authorised agencies should be considered reliable. If you purchase tickets from a non-authorised agency, you risk that these tickets are fake, void, or have previously been cancelled. Resale restriction applies.

Prices are correct at the time of publication and subject to change without notice. Exact prices will be displayed with seat selection. Children aged 0-18 months at the time of a performance may be seated on an adult’s lap free of charge. A valid ticket is required for all children over 18 months.

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