The raw talent of young people from Halls Creek has been guided towards the influences of contemporary dance.
It's part of an outreach program by Perth-based Ochre Contemporary Dance Company. The program is being conducted by Ochre's Artistic Liaison Officer, Justina Truscott-Smith. Justina is a Nyoongar woman from Perth and she has lived the journey she's hoping she can help her Halls Creek students begin.
Justina started with dance where it instinctively took place in her childhood.
"Indigenous dance is always in the bone. It's a normality from where I come from to just dance like that because that's how the old people danced. So we would just copy what the old people did."
Justina then moved through studying various genres of dance before bringing her influences together in the form of contemporary dance. In Halls Creek she's been trying to show her students the artistic expression of contemporary dance.
"For them, at first it was 'Hmmm what is she doing? This is weird.'" Justina says. "By the third lesson everyone's loving it. They're doing so well, they're dancing so well. I can step back and watch them dance without me leading."
Listen to Justina Truscott talk about taking contemporary dance to Halls Creek with Vanessa Mills on Kimberley Mornings.