History
The Round Earth Company was established in Western Australia in 1972 in response to rapid progress in Australian drama and theatre at that time, such as that contributed by the Australian Performing Group in Melbourne, and to the creative impact of aboriginal dance and story activities, such as by Mowamjum Dancers and other groups in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
The Company was birthed from the idea of being an on-the-road performing company which would take stories to networks of communities, collecting new stories from the communities and forming stories along the way. It used a "pre-electronic" network, a world-wide "story web", that was based on a simplistic understanding of the Tjurkupa, the web of Dreaming Tales, which formed a network of communication, history and navigation for aboriginal communities in the Centre and the Far North of Australia. From 1973 to 1974, three journeys into the North and the Central Deserts were undertaken, with storytellers, musicians, artists and craft workers visiting both remote mining towns and aboriginal communities. These journeys were funded by the Australia Council.
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