Kurruru Youth Performing Arts Inc (Kurruru) is one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth performing arts companies. It is committed to supporting the ongoing maintenance of culture, community and identity through the provision of quality performing arts opportunities for children, young people and their communities.

Working through a diverse array of performing art forms including; dance, song, circus, music and comedy, informed by innovative community cultural development practices, Kurruru is a nationally recognised leader in the creation of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performance.
Kurruru, meaning circle in local Kaurna language, has grown from a small arts program with three staff in 1984 to a nationally and internationally recognised performing arts company that nurtures the artistic and cultural development of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Today Kurruru exists to develop the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and communities of South Australia in the performing arts. Working from Kurruru’s studio in Port Adelaide, 15 km north-west of Adelaide, in Kaurna Country, the organisation:

• creates innovative and exciting new performance work annually – encapsulating art forms such as contemporary and traditional dance, music, circus performance and comedic performance – by and for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people;
• provides a regular term-based performing arts workshop program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people;
• is an employer of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly performing artists;
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• provides training and development opportunities to emerging performing artists.

Kurruru, meaning circle in local Kaurna language, is one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth performing arts company. It is committed to supporting the ongoing maintenance of culture, community and identity through the provision of quality performing arts opportunities for children, young people and their communities.

Working through a diverse array of performing art forms including; dance, song, circus, music and comedy, informed by innovative community cultural development practices, Kurruru is a nationally recognised leader in the creation of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performance.

Kurruru provides an extensive performing arts workshop program, produces award winning performances and engages in significant regional arts and health partnerships, all underpinned by the company’s Kulcha Moves philosophy and framework. Kulcha Moves, with its underpinning of community cultural development, focuses the company’s work on the maintenance and continuance of living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Kurruru’s program incorporates cultural content in the broadest sense including traditional and contemporary performance, engagement with language, family and community promoting intergenerational exchange, regional/metropolitan exchange, and an environment that fosters a strong sense of Aboriginal identity, respect and pride.