Flora captures the Australian environment. It is something bold and new in Australian dance
- Written by Yvette Grant, PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne
Kate Longley/Bangarra Dance Theatre/The Australian BalletIn 1950 Australian writer and dancer Jean Garling argued:
Dance reflects [a people’s] reaction to environment, for it is every art, and in its quality can be read the characteristics of a nation.
She could have no idea what that would look like in 2026.
Flora, a collaboration between...





