''Stamping Ground'' is a contemporary dance choreographed in 1983 by

Jiří Kylián Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer. Life Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a ...

to Carlos Chávez's Toccata for Percussion Instruments. It was inspired by the traditional dances of the

Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

External links

Dance in New York City website

Road to the Stamping Ground documentary

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet – Stamping Ground (Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2011)
Ballets by Jiří Kylián 1983 ballet premieres {{contemporary-dance-stub