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Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance

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Dancing in Shadows explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonisation. Historian Anna Haebich documents how the Nyungar people of Western Australia strategically and courageously adapted their rich performance culture to survive the catastrophe that engulfed them, and generously share their culture, history, and language in theatre. 

In public corroborees they performed their sovereignty to the colonists and in community-only gatherings they danced and sang to bring forth resilience and spiritual healing. Pushed away by the colonists and denied their culture and lands they continued to live and perform in the shadows over the years, in combinations of the old and the new, including indigenised settler songs and dances. Nyungar people survived, and they now number around 40,000 people and constitute the largest Aboriginal nation in the Australian settler state. The ancient family lineages live in city suburbs and country towns and they continue to perform to celebrate their ancestors and to strengthen community wellbeing by being together.

Dancing in Shadows sheds light on a little-known history of Nyungar performance.



About the Author :
Anna Haebich is a multi-award winning author, known for her passion for research that pushes into new territories. She has researched and written about many Aboriginal topics and experiences from the past and present. Her insights are shaped by her experiences of living in Nyungar country with her partner, elder Darryl Kickett, and by her varied career in writing, visual arts practice, university research, and community engagement. Anna has received numerous honours and recognitions for her contributions. She is a Fellow of two Australian learned academies and member of university centres in Australia and Germany. She is currently a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781742589718
  • Publisher: UWA Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: UWAP
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1000 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1742589715
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Histories of Nyungar Performance
  • Width: 153 mm


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