Garabari – Joel Bray

Join Wiradjuri choreographer Joel Bray for Garabari, for a joyful civic ritual created with Elders and community. You’re invited to gather, move, and learn Wiradjuri dance steps. This work celebrates how First Nations culture continues to grow today. Come ready to listen, move, and be part of the story.

No dance experience needed.

Garabari – dance workshop

As a part of Another World Festival  

Date and Time: Saturday 15 November , 8-8:30pm  

Location: Utp, Bankstown Arts Centre , 5 Olympic Parade Bankstown  

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About the Project

Garabari is Wiradjuri for Corroboree. 

Acclaimed choreographer Joel Bray transforms the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House into a massive open-air dance floor, inviting everyone, families, friends, the curious and the bold, to move together under the stars.

Created with Wiradjuri Elders and community in Wagga Wagga and the Riverina, Garabari shares the Story of the Making of the Murrumbidgee, gifted by the late Uncle James Ingram. What begins as ceremony becomes celebration, a joyful, heart-pounding mix of dance, light and sound that sweeps the crowd into a shared rhythm.

Garabari will premiere at Sydney Festival, 9-11 January 2026.

For more information, visit Sydney Festival's website.

Cover image by Jeff Busby

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS

This project is produced by BlakDance.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, with venue partner, Bankstown Arts Centre.

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, the Neilson Foundation and City of Canterbury Bankstown.