'Biik Ngarrga' Wurundjeri Dance Workshop led by Djirri Djirri

Name: 'Biik Ngarrga' Wurundjeri Dance Workshop led by Djirri Djirri
Start: 2025-07-09T11:00:00+1000
End: 2025-07-09T11:45:00+1000
Location: Burrinja Cultural Centre

Wed, 9 Jul, 11am - 11:45am AEST

Burrinja Cultural Centre

Upwey VIC, Australia

BodyPlaceProject

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Learn about the layers of Country through dance.

Djirri Djirri are the only Wurundjeri female dance group and are Traditional Custodians of Narrm (Melbourne) and surrounds. Djirri Djirri means Willy Wagtail in Woiwurrung, our Mother Tongue. The Willy Wagtail is the Spirit’s Messenger and gave us dance! Our dances honour our Liwik (Ancestors), Kerr-up-non (Family), Biik (Country) and animals.

Gallery 1, Burrinja.

All ages and genders.

$10 per participant

Image: Djirri Djirri workshop, Mt Corhanwarrabul, as part of BodyPlaceProject's Dancing Place: Corhanwarrabul, 2020.

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BodyPlaceProject aims to curate, create and facilitate meaningful artistic, embodied and cultural engagement with places. Internationally recognised as experts in the field of site-specific performance, BodyPlaceProject has fostered this artform in Yarra Ranges on the lands of the Kulin Nation since 2014. Initiated by dancer and artist/curator Gretel Taylor, BodyPlaceProject has evolved into a collective of local artists who share a deep interest in place and embodied response to environments. BodyPlaceProject creates and presents live performances, bringing audiences into non-conventional spaces, as well as dance-place-video works to share with broader audiences. In recent years, BodyPlaceProject has continued to explore place and identity in ever-broadening ways through facilitation of community projects and curation of programs and events that offer audiences and participants experiences of and reflections upon site, place and Country. Bringing diverse artists, First Nations knowledge holders, communities and audiences together, our purpose is to facilitate profound experiences of place.

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Wed, 9 Jul, 11am - 11:45am AEST

Burrinja Cultural Centre

Upwey VIC, Australia

Hosted by BodyPlaceProject