Waangenga Blanco is from the Mer Island people and of the Pajinka Wik, Cape York. After studying at NAISDA, Waangenga was invited to join Bangarra in 2005. His career highlights during his 13 years with the company include the company's return to Meriam Mer in the Torres Strait Islands to perform Emeret Lu by the ocean and also dancing on the football field in Yirrkala for the community. In 2015, he made his choreographic debut with I.B.I.S as part of the lore program. He won an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award for his performance in 2014’s Patyegarang and was nominated for a Helpmann Award and Greenroom Award for Male Dancer of the Year in 2012. Waangenga appeared in films Bran Nue Dae (2009), The Turning (2013), Dive, Stephen Page’s SPEAR (2016), and Dan Sultan’s music video “Under Your Skin”. Most recently, Waangenga won a 2018 Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer. He aims to inspire through his deep love and connection to Country and culture and draws strength from his family.Her choreographic credits include Accidental death of an anarchist (Sydney Theatre Company); Jasper Jones, Atlantis, Seventeen, Peter Pan (Belvoir); Girls like that (ATYP); #Killallmen, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (NIDA); The Incredible here and now (NToP); Double Beat (new work in development); untitled (Readymade Happy hour); Taction (Sydney dance company PPY); Act of contact, Nexus (QL2); Seven deadly sins (Sydney conservatorium of music); E-volve (CDDC); Pitch Black (Seekae live event); Sensation Trigger Action, Glitch (Flipside); Fresh Produce (Rogue, Next Wave Festival Event); Gravitas (Short film currently in development). Her assistant choreographic credits include Obsidian (Iceland Dance Company); Shane Warne the Musical (Eddy Perfect and Neil Armfield); and Woyzeck (Malthouse Theatre). 

Sara’s short works include; InAnimate (Lucy Guerin Inc); Parental Guidance Recommended (Dancehouse) and TunnelVisioned (Short Film Dancehouse). As a founding member of Rogue dance collective Sara co-created and choreographed new works Puck, Ocular Proof and Persona. Over the last eleven years she has performed and collaborated with Punchdrunk (UK), Protein Dance (UK), The Australian Ballet, Lucy Guerin Inc, NYID (David Pledger) and as a main collaborator and performer for Gideon Obarzanek’s Chunky Move where she toured extensively internationally. 

In 2008 she was awarded a Helpmann Award for best performer in a dance/physical theatre piece and has since been nominated for two Green Room awards in the same category. Sara has worked extensively with both Australian and international independent artists including Narelle Benjamin, Erna Omarsdottir, Damien Jalet, Martin Del Amo, Elissa Goodrich, Bagryana Popov, Stephanie Lake, Lloyd Newson, Wendy Houstoun, Carlee Mellow, Antony Hamilton and Byron Perry.