Our Aboriginal ceremony of celebrating with song and dance (nothing to do with discos) are called �CORROBOREE�. The male dancers would be the experts in mimicking the movements of animals. With these skills, they would reconstruct the legendary stories of the Dreamtime (creation), heroic deeds and famous hunts. Bodies were elaborately painted (�body painting� which was another form of our art) and songs were chanted to the accompaniment of music sticks and boomerangs clapped together. Some tribes would also accompany the dance with the Didgeriddo, the long hollow piece of wood, which when blown, emitted a mysterious droning sound.

Basic dance themes dealt with hunting and food gathering, or sex and fertility (hmmm). Sometimes they take a humorous vein but more often they dealt seriously with the procreation of life.