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Gary Lang |
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Gary Lang is the founding Artistic Director and choreographer of Gary Lang NT Dance Company. Gary is a Larrakia man from Darwin with extended family relationships across the Northern Territory. He is an experienced dancer and choreographer, who has worked widely throughout Australia and the world. |
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Gary trained at National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA Dance College), graduating in 1990. Since then he has performed, choreographed and travelled the world with various dance companies including Bangarra Dance Company, Dance North and the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre Company. |
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Gary creates stunning, sensual and emotional contemporary dance works. During 2008, Gary researched and created ‘Munuk Gapu’ – Fresh water Salt water – a dance production that interprets the lives, adventures and misadventures of Territory pearl divers from a bygone era. Gary’s contemporary dance production Goose Lagoon premiered at 2010 the Darwin Festival, another uniquely Territorian story that combines contemporary dance with indigenous culture and history. |
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Gary first worked for Tracks in 1994, choreographing a duet The Kiss with Director David McMicken in the BODIES OF LIGHT production, and again for RUST in 2004. |
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Updated November 2010 |
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