Where Country shares its secrets
What guides you through the darkness when you’ve lost your way? A whisper on the wind. A shimmer in the stars. A moth in flight.
When a brother and sister turn out the lights for the night, their Nan promises to tell them a story. Like the beating wings of the Bogong moth, her voice carries them into dreams, into an extraordinary world where Country shares its secrets. In this place, the past speaks through stars, trees, and grasses. Healing begins in the silence between breaths.
The Bogong’s Song is a blend of storytelling, shadow puppetry, dance, and song created especially for primary-aged children. As Nan passes her knowledge to her grandchildren, we’re all invited to experience connection to Country. As the children open their hearts to the stories of their ancestors, we discover that even the smallest creatures have a vital role to play.
This brand-new work from Yolande Brown and Chenoa Deemal follows the award-winning Waru — journey of the small turtle, which enthralled more than 25,000 children last year.
Featuring Benjin Maza and Tjilala Brown-Roberts, whose talents in dance, music, and spoken word bring this warm-hearted story to life, The Bogong’s Song invites young audiences to listen, reflect, and wonder.
If you're looking to book Audio Description or AUSLAN Interpretation for this performance please visit the QPAC Accessibility page, or contact QPAC Group Sales on either 07 3840 7466 or groups@qpac.com.au
Dates & Times
25 Sep - 4 Oct
Duration: 45 minutes
Venue
Cremorne Theatre
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Access
- Assistive Listening
Credits
Director, Co-Writer & Choreographer: Yolande Brown
Co-Writer & Provocateur: Chenoa Deemal
Composer: Brendon Boney
Set & Costume Designer: Richard Roberts
Set Design Associate: Annaliese McCarthy
Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes
Lighting Design Associate: Eben Love
Video Designer: Justin Harrison
Cultural Consultant: Aunty Doris Paton
Cultural Consultant: Arthur Little
Illustrator: Cheryl Davison
Puppetry Consultant: Vanessa Ellis
Image by Daniel Boud
Supported By
Bangarra Dance Theatre respectfully acknowledges and thanks the Monaro Ngarigo Cultural Authorities. We also honour the knowledge holders across the many communities connected by the Bogong Moth’s migration.
'The Bogong’s Song' has been Commissioned by QPAC and Bangarra Dance Theatre and generously supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government's Indigenous Languages and Arts program, the Girgensohn Foundation and the Knights Family Jabula Foundation.
Artists
Bangarra
Bangarra Dance Theatre is a company of professional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers.
We are storytellers. We are fire makers.
As one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, we share our culture with Communities and audiences across Australia and the world.
We are contemporary dancers, drawing on 65,000 years of culture. We create powerful works of theatre with dance, music, poetry and design. We tell the stories of our Elders, create works on Country and return the works we create to the place they were made.
Each of our dancers is a professionally trained, dynamic artist with a proud Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background. Together, they represent the best of Australian talent.
We have been making our indelible marks on the Australian theatre landscape for 34 years. Bangarra was born in 1989 from the energy of NAISDA (National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association). We acknowledge the efforts and vision of, Mr R Bryant, Cheryl Stone, Carole Y. Johnson, and NAISDA graduates in their pursuit to create a professional First Nations dance theatre company.
Stephen Page, Artistic Director for more than 30 years, is a creative icon. His vision and tenacity has made Bangarra one of the most successful Indigenous performing arts companies in Australia. His exceptional contribution to First Nations arts and the national cultural landscape will be felt for generations to come.
Today, Artistic Director and co-CEO Frances Rings and Executive Director and co-CEO Louise Ingram lead the company in our mission to promote awareness and understanding of our cultures.
Every year, we tour a world premiere work across the nation and embark on an international tour. We are at home performing on Country, in tiny venues in regional centres and on Australia’s most iconic stages. We run education workshops, programs and special projects to nurture the next generation of storytellers.
We are for the hundreds of First Nations Communities across Australia — and for anyone who wants to be a part of our story.