Aboriginal Tour Operators Newsletter

The Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre in Alice Springs is 100% aboriginal owned and operated, recruits and trains dance from all around Australia who perform both day and night shows 7 days a week here in Alice Springs.

Aboriginal culture is the oldest living continuos culture in the world. For over 40,000 years music, song, dance, storytelling and the playing of musical instruments such as the didgeridoo, has played a very important role in all aspects of Aboriginal life. (both sacred and non sacred)

Aboriginal cultural performances (known generically as corroborees) are dramatic representations, in mime and song, of the history of individual tribes or family groups. There were many non-secret rituals performed in the camps at night, before an enthusiastic audience of men, women and children. A group of adult men, seated around a small fire, would chant one or another of the ancient songs, while others, their bodies decorated with strange symbols would portray, in a series of spectacular dances, the legends of the Dreamtime .
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Describing the dance performance the principle dancer Arthur Turtle Tamwoy said his music was coming from the heart, It was coming from the land, you will feel it, it is the sound of mother earth, who we pay respect to in each performance.