It’s a warm Wednesday afternoon in the far north Queensland city of Cairns. In a car park on Pease Street in the suburb of Manoora, the sound of clap sticks and clapping hands can be heard from inside a building.
It has not yet been a week since members of Deaf Indigenous Dance Group returned from the 2021 Laura Quinkan dance festival in Cape York, in which they took part for the first time. Now they are back in their rehearsal room, practising routines for the Cairns Naidoc Week march and performances in Fogarty Park.
