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A corroboree is a generic word for a meeting of Australian Aboriginal peoples. It may be a sacred ceremony , a festive celebration, or of a warlike character. A word coined by the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language , it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration .
They play an important role in marriage ceremonies, in the education of Indigenous children, as well as storytelling and oral history. The term corroboree is commonly used to refer to Australian Aboriginal dances, although this term has its origins among the people of the Sydney region. In some places, Aboriginal people perform corroborees for ...
Either a corroboree means ceremony or the word describes performances which are not ceremonial. There is much confusion here because in the english literature on ceremonial and non ceremonial Australian performances by traditional owners the use of corroboree has, in the past, been used to describe both ceremony and non-ceremonial performance.
1950 ballet performance of Antill's best-known work, Corroboree John Henry Antill , CMG , OBE (8 April 1904 – 29 December 1986) was an Australian composer best known for his ballet Corroboree .
The largest spectator event of the 19th century at the Adelaide Oval was the "Grand Corroboree", a corroboree performed by around 100 Aboriginal men and women from Point MacLeay mission and Yorke Peninsula on Friday 30 May and Saturday 1 June 1885. They had been invited to Adelaide by the colonial government to perform as part of the Queen's ...
Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia.The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men.
Corroboree at Newcastle is a painting in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the first known European oil painting to depict a night corroboree by Aboriginal Australian people.
The ceremony was given rave reviews by the local media. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch thought it was a successful opening ceremony, giving it a 10-out-of-10 score. [72] [73] Then Premier of New South Wales Bob Carr claimed a few days after the ceremony that it was perhaps the most important work of art ever produced in Australia's ...