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Minymaku Inma (Women's Dance & Song) celebrates Indigenous women and shows their inner strength, humour, love, pain, beauty and sense of community.

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Traditionally, Aboriginal women have a ceremonial life separate and secret to men. Minymaku Inma (Women's Dance & Song) brings together Bangarra Dancers and Performers from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council for an exchange of ceremonial cycles, reinforcing traditional ties with women from other communities and celebrating the importance and power of traditional Women's Law.

The work which highlights the women's responsibility to cultural maintenance is interwoven with the traditional inma (dance and song) of women from the Central Desert. These particular dances are based on the Tjukurpa and depict the travels of ancestors.