Indigenous dance gets a ballet twist

Indigenous storytelling through dance has been given a new twist with a collaboration between the Australian Ballet and the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

In this production, classical ballet meets with the Indigenous dance form.

For Bangarra dancer Brett Simon, the combination of the two dance forms presents a challenging learning curve.

"Classical ballet is upright and you spend your time trying to look like you're floating, but this is very earthy and you use your legs in a very different way," he said.

But the challenge has its rewards.

"There are times [in the production when] you can't pick out the Bangarra dancers or the ballet dancers because we're working in sync," said Mr Simon.