Thousands keep dance alive at Indigenous festival (fwd link)

Tue Jun 23 16:02:31 UTC 2009

Thousands keep dance alive at Indigenous festival

By Siobhan Barry
Posted Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:48am AEST
Australia

Every two years, the tiny town of Laura on south-eastern Cape York Peninsula
hosts one of the country's oldest and biggest Aboriginal dance festivals.

Singers and dancers travel from across Queensland to take part in the three-day
event, which is an important chance for Indigenous communities to share their
stories and culture.

This year, 500 dancers from about 20 communities travelled to Laura from as far
away as Brisbane and Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria for the
town's 18th dance festival.

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