LARRAKIA man Gary Lang loves to tell the story of the time when the internationally famous (late) ballerina, Lucette Aldous, came into the room where he was rehearsing. After watching for a while, she said to him: “Gary, your work isn’t contemporary Aboriginal dance, it’s Aboriginal ballet.”
It’s a description he has embraced with pride. “I love the aesthetics of classical ballet,” he says, joking that he’s “a bit of a bunhead”. Now the director of his own Northern