One by one, Wadeye's main ceremonial groups take to the stage to perform their traditional dances in the third year of the remote Northern Territory community's Yidiyi cultural festival.

The diversity of the dances is reflective of a community where more than a dozen clan groups live together.

These clan groups are represented through the four main ceremony groups: Wangga, Lirrga, Tharnpa and Wulthirri, each of which has its own distinctive style of traditional dance and song.

"This gives me love in my heart," says Margaret Perdjert, a senior traditional owner of Wadeye's Kardu Diminin clan.

" It's so great to come together as one family. "

This year's Yidiyi Festival pulled in several hundred spectators, mostly made up of Wadeye locals and people from small Aboriginal homelands in

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