Our Corka Bubs

Free, booking essential
Duration: 60 minutes
Meet at the Main Entry

Our Corka Bubs is the first ever Aboriginal contemporary dance work for babies.

Our Corka Bubs offers captivating storytelling through movement and music choreographed specifically for babies alongside their carers. Grounded in Australia’s First Nations’ culture, gentle motifs of water, earth & the bush are guided by traditional live music creating a transformative experience which pays specific attention to a baby’s need to explore and feel secure.

Directed by renowned South Australian Aboriginal choreographer Gina Rings and produced by Ollie Black, a small audience of babies and carers are transfixed through music and play drawing strongly on aspects of Australian Aboriginal culture.

All performers, who are of Aboriginal descent, collaborated with Gina in developing movement derived from Aboriginal dance carefully adapted into contemporary form. The two main dancers, sisters Taree and Caleena Sansbury, offer ways of moving specifically designed to engage the young audience using gestural dance. Language used through movement is choreographed to engage the babies’ participation by providing them with a safe environment from which to explore.

Children must be accompanied by a parent/carer. This program is designed for children aged 0–3 years.

This program is part of Kids & Families Sunday Funday.

Choreographer & Director: Gina Rings (Kukatha)

Composer: Heather Frahn

Co-composer & Performer: Owen Love (Ngarrindjeri)

Stage Manager & Sound Operator: Susie Skinner

Dancers:

Current
Janelle Egan (Arrernte/ Dieri)

Melanie Koolmatrie (Ngarrindjeri)

Previous

Taree Sansbury (Ngarrindjeri/Narungga)

Caleena Sansbury (Ngarrindjeri/Narungga)

Adrianne Semmens (Barkindji/Ngarrindjeri)

Creative Consultant: Sally Chance

Our Corka Bubs is based on This [Baby] Life by Sally Chance Dance and was originally produced in association by Country Arts SA’s Ollie Black and Penny Camens. The performance was researched and choreographed in 2011 whilst Chance completed a fellowship from the Australia Council.

2017
Art Gallery of South Australia – Adelaide

Tarananthi at the Port – Adelaide

Desert Fringe – Port Augusta

Yirramboi – Melbourne

Portland Arts Centre – Portland

2018
Arts Centre Melbourne

Commonwealth Games Festival – Gold Coast

Out of the Box – Brisbane

2019

Sydney Opera House

2021

DreamBIG Festival - Adelaide

2023

Chaffey Theatre, Renmark – South Australia

Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mt Gambier – South Australia

Hopgood Theatre, Hopgood – South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia