'Significant moment' as Wiradjuri man becomes first Indigenous leader of a non-Indigenous dance company

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One of Australia's leading dancers and choreographers, Daniel Riley, will become the first Indigenous person to lead a non-Indigenous dance company when he takes on a new role this year.

While Daniel Riley first began dancing at nine years old, his love affair with the performing art form was sparked when he was invited to a youth dance workshop at age 12.He is the first Indigenous person to lead a non-Indigenous dance company in Australia

It's a full-circle moment of sorts, as the person who invited Mr Riley to the youth dance workshop when he was 12 was the founder of ADT, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman.The South Australian-based group is Australia's oldest contemporary dance company, founded in 1965. "His vision and his interviews were just extraordinary, and what he wants to do with the company, and where he wants to take it, and his own choreographic practice and the art form, is really exciting."

"I think for young people to be it, they need to be able to see — you know, you can't be what you can't see.

 

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Tell us when a non-indigenous person becomes leader of an indigenous dance company and I will be surprised. Only then will we have true inclusion and non discriminatory society.

Would we say an English German Norseman with Scottish ancestry No we would say I can dance

Geez First Indigenous? Who cares.

If founder of the so called non-Indigenous dance company identified his talent at 12 years old one might concluded the term non-Indigenous dance company is a load of piffle.

FatherBob Another able-bodied person taking a leading place in dance. Yay.

Who gives a

Wayne Carey?

Is a non indigenous dance company legally a thing? It sound very racist

It's sad that this is even a story. Why shouldn't an indigenous person lead anything that they want to lead, without it becoming a story? The reason is, we still have so much racism in this country.

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