Garabari

Name: Garabari
Start: 2026-01-09 20:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-01-11 20:30:00+11:00
Location: Sydney Opera House

Joel Bray

Dance, gather and connect in this joyous, high-energy corroboree.

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Description

Joel Bray Dance, BlakDance & Sydney Opera House

Step into the dance Garabari, Wiradjuri for Corroboree.

Acclaimed choreographer Joel Bray transforms the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House into a massive open-air dance floor, inviting everyone, families, friends, the curious and the bold, to move together under the stars.

Created with Wiradjuri Elders and community in Wagga Wagga and the Riverina, Garabari shares the Story of the Making of the Murrumbidgee, gifted by the late Uncle James Ingram. What begins as ceremony becomes celebration, a joyful, heart-pounding mix of dance, light and sound that sweeps the crowd into a shared rhythm.

With ethereal costumes by Wiradjuri designer Denni Francisco (Ngali), driving beats by Byron Scullin and enthralling projections by Katie Sfetkidis, Garabari is upbeat, inclusive and unlike any corrobboree that has come before it.

This is your chance to participate in a millennia-old ritual on a monumental scale.

Cultural Acknowledgement

We acknowledge with respect Uncle James Ingram (dec.), Custodian of the Story of the Making of the Murrumbidgee; Uncle Christopher Kirkbright, Project Elder and Wiradjuri language custodian; Aunty Cheryl Penrith, Aunty Mary Atkinson and Aunty Jackie Ingram, Senior Knowledge Holders.

“Lyrical, furious, ecstatic, voluptuous...one can’t take one’s eyes off them”

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Joel Bray

Australia

Naarm-based Joel Bray is a proud Wiradjuri performance-maker who draws on his heritage to choreograph potent, humorous, and deeply human works that interrogate sex, history, and healing. His works as Artistic Director of Joel Bray Dance blur ritual and revelry Joel’s choreographies —including Biladurang, Considerable Sexual License, Daddy, and Monolith—have been commissioned by major players like RISING, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, and the National Galleries of Australia and Victoria, and tour globally. His works are crafted in collaboration with Elders and Community, spring to life in unorthodox spaces.

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