We have an exciting new eResource to help you learn about Noongar language and culture. This is called Mayakeniny and it has a great Noongar-English word list along with audio for how to pronounce each word. Mayakeniny means ‘sound dancing’.
This website showcases the Noongar music, song, dance and language outputs of the project, including teaching resources such as the songs from Hecate (the all-Noongar language adaptation of Macbeth performed at the Perth Festival in 2020).
It includes Koorlangka Karaoke (Noongar children’s songs with Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar), Noongar language webisodes, and a Noongar-English wordlist that brings together historical variations of Noongar words.
This project also draws on the creative skill and expertise of three Masters of Performing Arts candidates (Bobbi Henry, Kyle Morrison and Trevor Ryan) at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), who are researching unique components of restoring on-Country performance.
The aim is to investigate relationships between place, people and performance traditions in the south-west region of Western Australia.
- Archival song and language material
- Ecological readings of landscape
- Noongar and other Aboriginal community expertise on performance and Country.
To see all this website has to offer:
