10 Top End dancers are set to take the Gold Coast stage

A Top End dance troupe has won big in Darwin and they are on the way to the national finals. Meet the amazing young woman behind their success.

Tremmel Taylor, Sethalia Olsen, Tivisha Bading and Jamiseon Nabegeyo are ready to take the stage at the national finals in January.

A Maningrida dance group will take to the national stage in January.

The 10 children and young people won all of their routines at Darwin’s Evolution Dance Competition in the hip hop and open categories.

The group has raised $42,000 to attend next year’s championships on the Gold Coast.

Sethalia Olsen and Tivisha Bading formed the troupe in 2019 with three other girls, but are the only two original members of the crew remaining.

Sethalia said she helped choreograph the group’s routines.

She said she had loved dancing for years.

“My dreams are to dance with a celebrity on stage and in music videos,” Sethalia s said.

“My dance crew is fun, we laugh together and have a good time supporting each other.”

Mala’la Health Service Aboriginal Corporation youth and family worker Maddy Macke, said the group had found confidence in one another and had grown their leadership skills while

they brought their “hopes and dreams to life”.

“Dance is an amazing way to look after not only physical health but our emotional and social well-being,” she said.

“The sense of support and comradeship the dancers have for one another is really beautiful,” she said.

“There are several young people in the group who hope to become professional dancers when they are older, and we hope that Maningrida Dance will help them reach where they want to be.”

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