Mirramu Dance Company is an Australian contemporary dance company founded in early 2002 by Australian dance pioneer

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman Elizabeth Cameron Dalman (born 1934) is an Australian choreographer, teacher, and performer. She founded Australian Dance Theatre and was its artistic director from 1965 to 1975. She is also the founding director of Mirramu Dance Company. Ear ...

(the founder of

Australian Dance Theatre Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), known as Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1999, is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman . The ADT was the first moder ...

) and dancer-choreographer Vivienne Rogis. The company is based at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre on the shores of

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; it is primarily a project-based company, gathering together its dancers to develop and perform projects on an as-needs basis. It has performed in every Australian city (with performances at the Australian National Gallery, the Workworks Gallery and smaller more intimate venues) and internationally, including Bulgaria, Taiwan, U.S.A, Italy, New Zealand and France. It has a cross-cultural emphasis with strong involvement from

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dancers as well as Japan, and has a close relationship with the Taiwanese Grace Hsiao Dance Theatre. It also has a strong community focus, and collaborates across media and performance disciplines, working with

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s, painters and multimedia artists. In February 2008 Mirramu performed ''Tango Lament'', a piece inspired by the work of Scottish artist

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, along with two other works, as part of the Multicultural Festival in Canberra. ''Tango Lament'' included guest dancer Aida Amirkhania from

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. Some of the performances were later included in Weereewa - A Festival of Lake George, on 29 March. The Mirramu Dance Company performed ''Morning Star'' in March 2013 at the James O. Fairfax Theatre, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

Banula Marika Banula (David) Marika is an Aboriginal Australian dancer, actor, singer and performer from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The son of Roy Marika, he is a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yol ...

, who is custodian of the Morning Star (Barnumbirr) story, collaborated with Dalman on the work, serving as cultural consultant. Other performances include ''The Linen Memorial'' and ''Red Silk''.

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