AustLit

Four Parts include:

Yellow: I believe the landscape to be Mother. Its flowing rivers she cleanses in, the yellow ochre she dresses in, the sun and seasons she nourishes gathering, nesting and birthing along her travels.

Black: An ash storm has blown over, the call and pain of initiation can only be viewed from a distance ... Men's Business.

Red: Custom, Law and Values placed on the relationships between women and men who have been on a path of change since time began. In each of these relationships: the youth, the obsession, the poison, the pain, there is struggle.

White: At dawn Mother Earth yawns, her call engulfs the white ochre spirits to spiritually bathe them in preparation for the day's journey.

'Bangarra’s production Ochres,was officially premiered in Sydney in 1995. As the work was being developed, sections were shown in September 1994 at Belvoir St Theatre’s Nambundah Festival and again in October of the same year at the National Gallery Canberra for the launch of then Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Creative Nation policy.' (Source: Bangarra Dance Theatre website)