Bangarra bring light to WOMAD

Bangarra Dance Theatre are bringing a new cross-cultural collaboration to audiences around the country with ‘The Light Inside’, a joint-choreographed piece with leading Māori choreographer Moss Te Ururangi Patterson. The project is a collaborative piece created by Patterson and Bangarra’s Deborah Brown, working together to honour their respective mother countries and the spirit that calls them home. Brown is a proud descendent of the Wakaid Clan and Meriam people in the Torres Strait and has crafted a piece that binds together her experience with that of the First Peoples of Aoteoroa. Audiences at WOMADelaide 2025 will have two opportunities to catch Bangarra Dance Theatre, on the Friday and Saturday evenings of the festival. Ahead of their show, AW spoke with Maddison Paluch, one of the talented artists performing ‘The Light Inside.’