The Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance festival passes ‘these skills, stories and culture down to the next generation’
Winners of the last Laura Quinkan festival Shield in 2021, Kawadji Wimpa Dance Team hails from Lockhart River near Weipa in eastern Cape York. The troupe of about 30 dancers transfixed the crowd.Different clan groups compete for the Laura Dance Shield.Jilian Faith, a teacher of Indigenous children in Herberton in Queensland’s Atherton Ranges, has been coming to the festival for 25 years and this year is the biggest yet.
Throughout the three days of the festival, each of the eight clan dance groups perform three times, leading to a dance-off on the final day for the Laura Dance Shield. The Pormpuraaw traditional dancers are announced as the overall winners by Australian Indigenous actor and celebrity, Ernie Dingo.Hailing from the western Gulf of Carpentaria, the troupe of 40 dancers travelled for over nine hours to get to Laura.
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