Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to stage for Sydney festival – video

The First Nations dance company's retrospective Spirit, comprising 30 years of its history, is being performed at the Headland, Sydney festival's major outdoor space at Barangaroo. Artistic director Stephen Page says: Reflecting back, looking at those stories, feeding them to our dancers - especially the next generation - it's just been a wonderful process.'

Barrangaroo Reserve is named after the second wife of Bennelong, an historical Indigenous figure whose story was told by the acclaimed Bennelong work of the same name. You can feel her spirit here,' Page says. The more that we recognise and reclaim and put breath and energy and spirit back into significant sites, the better this landscape will feel cleansed ... whether you're black or white.'

Spirit: A Retrospective 2021 is on until 24 January as part of the Sydney festival