Bukuminkum (forgotten face) is a new full-length dance production by Gary Lang’s NT Dance Company (NTDC). Lang’s contemporary choreographic style, ‘Aboriginal Ballet’ is renowned for embracing both classical ballet and traditional Aboriginal dance. His diverse audiences are lovers of ballet, contemporary dance, Indigenous culture, operatic, classical music and more. Fans of Giselle will be thrilled and fascinated by this modern, Indigenous retelling of this tragic story.

Betrayed and forgotten by family and by colleagues, Guypuŋura, wanders her homeland, seemingly lost and mad, trying to find her spirit again. Bukuminkum is an adaptation of Giselle’s second act into an Indigenous Australian context by NT Dance Company’s Artistic Director, Gary Lang, senior Larrakia choreographer.

Bukuminkum is an exceptional concept, born of a true story about the origins of the contemporary Indigenous aesthetic that we see today and how the owner of that ICIP is unrecognised.

Featuring original string quartet compositions created for Bukuminkum, Yolŋu manikay forms the foundation of the new musical score with hints of the original classical compositions by Adolphe Adam.

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Artistic Director Gary Lang, Gary Lang NT Dance Company
General Manager Erica McCallum, Gary Lang NT Dance Company (gutha - younger sister)
Cultural Consultant Banula Marika, Rirratjingu Elder (gala - poison cousin)
Cultural Consultant Janet Munyarryun, Gumatj Elder, (galay - right skin)
Cultural Consultant Naminapu Maymuru-White, Maŋgalili Elder, (ŋadi - mother)
Producer Elizabeth Rogers
Co-Dramaturg & Rehearsal Director Noelle Shader AO
Co-Dramaturg Jasmine Gulash
Video Artist Samuel James
Composer Samuel Pankhurst

NT Dance Company Artists at Darwin Entertainment Centre 2024
Claire Voss
Mel McCabe
Floeur Alder
Alex Abbot
Zachary Wilson
Luther Wilson
Ruby Platemotley
Olivia Scott (Ev & Bow secondement student)
Elena Salerno (The Australian Ballet Education Program)
Chantelle van der Hoek (The Australian Ballet Education Program)

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