26 Oct Watch the Bangarra Dance Theatre perform Yuldea, free online.
Celebrate the Sydney Opera House’s 50th Anniversary!
Watch Yuldea, performed by Bangarra Dance Theatre, a company of professional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary dancers, drawing on 65,000 years of culture.
In celebration of Sydney Opera House’s 50th anniversary, Yuldea is one of 50 iconic performances available to watch free worldwide on the Stream platform. From now through 3 November, 2023, you can experience this powerful piece of theatre in your home where ever you are!
‘At Yuldea, stories hover in the sky. The stars reveal a divine Songline, stretching between earth and sky.’ Yuldea explores the moment traditional life collided with the industrial ambition of a growing nation.
As Frances Rings’ first work as Artistic Director, Yuldea is a ceremonial affirmation of history and heritage. Yuldea awakens the earth and sky worlds to tell the story of the Anangu people of the Great Victorian Desert.
In 1917, the two halves of the Transcontinental Railway met at the precious water soak on the edge of the Nullarbor, Yuldi Kapi.
Great metal serpents scarred the landscape, draining all water from the sacred soak. Then came the black mist of the atomic testing at Maralinga, forcing the Anangu people to leave their desert homelands where they had lived for millennia.
Now memories lay scattered, like the Anangu people, displaced from their home. Remnants of colonial progress are swallowed by sand. But the Anangu endure, determined to keep strong their knowledge systems of land and sky, honouring their eternal bonds of kinship between people and place.
Yuldea features original music by Leon Rodgers and guest composers multi-award-winning electronic pop duo Electric Fields (Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross). Designers Elizabeth Gadsby (Set), Jennifer Irwin (Costume) and Karen Norris (Lighting) create a desert world on stage.
