BANGARRA DANCE THEATRE Historical Background: Bangarra is an aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation founded in 1989 by dancer and choreographer‚ Carole Johnson. Based at Walsh Bay in Sydney‚ Bangarra exists to create a foundation for the care and celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural life. Since 1991‚ Bangarra has been led by Artistic Director and Choreographer Stephen Page who has created a unique style‚ fusing traditional aboriginal dance and contemporary
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OUR COUNTRYS GOOD 1.Summary Our country’s good is a play about convicts and royal marines send to Australia in the late 1780’s as part of the first penal colony there. The play sees Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark’s attempt to put on a production of ‘The Recruiting officer’ with the convicts. The play shows the class system and shows themes such as sexuality‚ social class and punishment. 2. When was our country’s good written? 1998 3. When did Weternbaker write this play? 1998 4. What did
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Australian Culture Imagine a place where you can start a new life‚ a place which also embraces and celebrates where you come from. That’s Australia‚ one of the most multicultural societies in the world. Australia’s diverse culture and lifestyle mirror its liberal democratic traditions and values‚ geographic closeness to the Asia–Pacific region and the social and cultural influences of the millions of migrants who have settled in Australia since World War II. Migrants have contributed to almost
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Idiophone An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings ormembranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon called this group of instruments autophones. Most percussion instruments that are not drums are idiophones. Hornbostel-Sachs divides idiophones into four main sub-categories
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The Australian tourism advertisement that was released earlier this year‚ complete with the tagline “So where the bloody hell are you?” was one of the most controversial government-funded ads in recent memory. The advertisement was created and funded by Tourism Australia and screened on domestic television in dozens of countries around the world. The release of the ad prompted considerable worldwide discussion: it was initially banned from British television by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance
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There are approximately 500 various aboriginal people in Australia with their unique languages and separated territories whose existence is prior to European colonization. Undoubtedly the culture and identity has profound influence on contemporary Australia. They keep trying to establish a crucial impression to nowadays people via paintings‚ songs‚ dance and movies. To begin with‚ aboriginal people have their own artistic expression. Aboriginal paintings are the oldest unbroken tradition of art which
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a humours yet insightful book written by Sherman Alexie. The book is about a tale of a hydrocephalic Indian named Arnold Spirit (usually called Junior)‚ living in an impoverished Indian reservation. Due to his medical conditions‚ he is always the underdog‚ lowest member of his society. Despite this he keeps his hope‚ expanding it beyond his hometown and into the wider community. Alexie incorporates many themes‚ such as poverty‚ friendship and hope
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Belonging statements: * There are many types of belonging: to family‚ culture‚ nation‚ education‚ social groups‚ place. * Many people choose not to belong - ironically such rebellion can actually make a new group to belong to. * If we don ’t belong‚ we may become powerless. * "The feeling of not belonging‚ of not being entirely worthy‚ of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. They speak to all of us in this way." - Anthony Minghella
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Vincent Renner <vincent.renner@univ‐lyon2.fr> Winter 2015 Virtual Office group: ’Renner‐L2‐linguistics’ Phonetics vs Phonology Phonetics is the study of speech. Articulatory phonetics is a branch which describes how the speech organs (= articulators) are used to produce (= articulate) speech sounds. Phonology is the study of the organization of speech sounds in the minds of speakers. Speech sound production Air stream modified by organs of speech. Modifications have
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2012 Christopher Beyer Information Technology; How It Affects Our Lives For centuries‚ mankind had always sought out ways to communicate with their neighbors or fellow tribesmen. Through the use of fire and smoke; the beating of drums; the didgeridoo and the bull-roarer‚ tthese devices and more were used to convey information. Some are still used today. Along with the advancements of mankind‚ although some might disagree it is not technology‚ the telegraph became the telephone; the telephone
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