The Dreamtime comes to Stonehenge
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 08 June 2006 Page Views: 2850
StonehengeCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Stone CircleInternal Links:
Stonehenge meets representatives of an extremeley old culture — the Bardi dancers from Western Australia's Ardiyooloon community. From the other side of the world, 200 kilometres north of Broome, the Bardis have come to Stonehenge to make world history, being the first Aboriginal dance group to stage a performance at the stone circle.
They are appearing as the guests of the Salisbury International Arts Festival, and as part of Undergrowth Australian Arts UK, a two-year program of Australian culture in Britain.
"The Bardi dancers and we at the festival both really like the link between two ancient cultures coming together," says Jo Metcalf, who herself came from Perth to direct the Salisbury Festival, and thus is part of Australia's notorious "reverse colonisation" of the British arts scene. "The fact that Stonehenge was and still is used as a meeting place, is used for ceremony and is one of the world's great cultural icons really excited the Bardi dancers, and they were thrilled when I invited them to perform their dreamtime stories and ceremonies in this place."
On Monday and Wednesday nights, the group will perform sold-out dusk shows in the sacred "inner circle" itself.
"We tried to be very respectful of the site, and obviously there are certain technical and logistical things we are not able to do," says Ms Metcalf.
More, with photo: The Age.
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