Ngioka Bunda-Heath is Wakka Wakka, Ngugi from Queensland; and Birrpai from New South Wales. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, as the first Aboriginal woman in dance.
Ngioka received both the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency and the Chloe Munro AO/Lucy Guerin Inc Independent Artist fellowship.
She worked for Bangarra Dance Theatre in ‘Rekindling’ their youth education program; and is the First Peoples Partnership Coordinator at Chunky Move.
Ngioka has performed works by Mariaa Randall, Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen, Amrita Hepi and will dance for LGI in 2023. Internationally, she’s participated in dance conferences, festivals, and residencies in New Caledonia, France, Canada, and America.
Ngioka’s choreographic work includes ‘Blood Quantum’ (2019), ‘Birrpai’ (2021) awarded Dance Best Duo/Ensemble at the Greenroom Awards, ‘Bridge’ (2022) and ‘Footprints’ (2022).