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Dance has a powerful capacity to reflect our social and cultural values and our search for identity. Across the decades, Australians working in the arts have wondered how to balance a European cultural heritage with a geographical location in the Southern Hemisphere.

Many influential figures in the world of Australian dance, including Robert Helpmann, Gertrud Bodenwieser and Edouard Borovansky, found different solutions to this dilemma of balancing location and heritage.

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