for the 500 or so dancers who took part in this year's Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival it was about a lot more than aesthetics. Since the dreamtime their people have been dancing, the tradition ...

Indigenous culture was on display at the Laura Dance Festival held every two years in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. THIS YEAR, OVER THE weekend of 21-23 June, some 500 performers from 20 ...

The dance festival grounds at Laura occupy the site of a very old, traditional Bora ground – a respected and sacred site. It’s become a place and event where families meet new and old family ...

Lockhart River Kwadji Wimpa dance leaders Simon and Zephriah Butcher said that for them participating in Laura Quinkan Dance Festival was about continuing their culture for generations to come.

has made a triumphant return to Laura at the long-running Laura Quinkan Indigenous Dance Festival, one of Australia's oldest Indigenous cultural festivals. "I was very homesick to be back here on ...