The Other Side Of Me - East Coast Tour

THE OTHER SIDE OF ME - Gary Lang NT DANCE COMPANY

The Other Side of Me at DanceX, image by Gregory Lorenzutti

Following its acclaimed Melbourne premiere at The Australian Ballet’s DanceX 2025 and a 2024 regional tour across WA and the NT, Gary Lang NT Dance Company’s The Other Side of Me will tour the East Coast in 2026.

““While so-called classic and canonical works are regularly restaged in Australia, it’s still relatively rare to see new Australian works given a second lease of life. While there are, of course, exceptions, far too often many new Australian works have only a brief time in the sun before they’re mothballed and the focus moves on to the next new production waiting in the wings – which makes the current remount of The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang NT Dance Company all the more significant.””
— Artshub, Richard Watts

Tour locations 2026

    • Friday 27 February 2026, 7:00PM

    • Saturday 28 February 2026, 1:00PM & 7:00PM

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    • Wednesday 4 March 2026, 7:00PM

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    • Friday 01 May 2026, 7:30PM

    • Saturday 02 May 2026, 7:30PM
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    • Wednesday 06 May 2026, 7:00PM

    • Thursday 07 May 2026, 7:00PM

    • Friday 08 May 2026, 7:00PM

Created by acclaimed Larrakia choreographer Gary Lang, this international, cross-cultural collaboration with Northumbria University (UK) tells a story of the Stolen Generations. Told with care and complexity, it asks vital questions about origin, identity, adoption, justice, and healing.

CREATIVE TEAM

Gary Lang (Co-Creator, Choreographer, Director) Larrakia

Banula Marika (Cultural Consultant, Songman) Yolŋu

Laura Fish (Co-Creator, Dramaturg, Writer) (dec.)

Liz Pavey (Co-Creator, Dramaturg)

Josephine Crawshaw (Cultural Consultant) Kalkarindji

Jesse Norris (Cultural Consultant) Torres Strait Island

Janet Munyarryun (Voice Artist) Yolŋu

Arian Pearson (Sound Designer) Yolŋu

Noelle Shader (Rehearsal Director)

Chandler Connell (Performer) Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal

Alexander Abbot (Performer)

Joseph Mercurio (Lighting Designer)

Jennifer Irwin (Costume Designer)

Samuel Pankhurst (Composer/Sound Designer)

Samuel James (Projection Designer)

BlakDance (Producer)

About Gary Lang

Born in Darwin, Larrakia man Gary Lang is a NAISDA graduate and alumnus of Bangarra and Dancenorth. Since 2002 Gary Lang has choreographed 9 seminal works in the Aboriginal dance canon, including GOOSE LAGOON, Mokuy, Waŋa (Spirit), Forbidden, Milnjiya, Milky Way' — River of Stars created with the Western Australian Ballet. In 2013, he was honoured with the distinguished Australia Council for the Arts’ Dance Board Fellowship.


About the Company

Gary Lang Northern Territory Dance Company (GLNTDC) is at the international forefront of innovative First Nations dance practice. Acclaimed Larrakia dancer and choreographer Gary Lang’s signature choreography blends the gestural physicality of First Nations dance with the ethereal movements of classical ballet, heightening the experience with orchestral strings accompaniments, to create a new art form that is entirely unique within the Australian dance landscape. Lang’s unique style of dance, subverts and transforms traditional Larrakia and Rirratjingu Yolŋu songlines and stories at the intersection of cultures, and explores the themes of spirit worlds, loss, hope, healing and journeys.

The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang NT Dance Company, pictured Cheeky Chandler and Alexander Abbot. Images by Gregory Lorenzutti, DanceX Arts Centre Melbourne.

The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang NT Dance Company, pictured Cheeky Chandler and Alexander Abbot. Images by Gregory Lorenzutti, DanceX Arts Centre Melbourne.

The story is based on actual events. However, names, incidents and timelines have been changed for dramatic purposes. All characters depicted in the production are composites or fictitious. Any similarity to the original story, or of fictitious characters to an actual person, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.

The Other Side of Me is produced and toured by BlakDance. The tour has received financial assistance from the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

The production is a collaboration between Gary Lang NT Dance Company and Northumbria University, UK. It has received financial support through the Northern Territory Government, Regional Arts Australia, the British Council, Creative Australia, Brisbane Festival and Queensland Performing Arts Centre. 

The work premiered in 2023 in Darwin Festival at the Darwin Entertainment Centre, toured Western Australia and Central Australia 2024 and premiered in Melbourne at DanceX Festival in 2025.