Ronaldo Guivarra is one of Descendance’s leading song persons; he received training by one of the company’s cultural heads, the late great Yidinji and Kandu song women Imelda Willis. Ronaldo has heritages from both Aboriginal (Waanji Tribe) and The Torres Strait Islands (Paibri Tribe), he is one of Australia’s most experienced indigenous performers in both Mainland and Islander culture. Ronaldo has also been the operations manger of the Descendance residency in Alice Springs on and off since 2003, helping win Descendance a Brolga award in Tourism in 2003. Ronaldo’s strong voice covers all styles of songs in both contemporary and traditional fields; he was also the lead singer on The Descendance CD “Creation” released in 2008.
RESUME WITH DESCENDANCE AND JOSE CALARCO
Vietnam Tour Hue, Danang, Ho Chi Minh.
Aboriginal Business Awards Sydney Town Hall.
Hawaii Tour Honolulu Festival.
Sparks Festival, workshops and performances with people with disabilities.
Aboriginal Deadly Awards Sydney Opera House performance.
Tour of Moscow Russia, Australia Promotions and Performances.
Tour of Hawaii Honolulu Festival.
Tour of Qatar for The Asian Football Cup.
Tour of Serbia and Italy, performing at two of Europe’s prestige festivals: The Guca Festival (Serbia) and Natibongo Festival (North-West Italy).
Tour of Mauritius & Seychelles with The Australian Film Festival.
Tour of South Italy Descendance for Ghironda Festival.
Tour of Abu Dhabi for 7 weeks with Descendance for World Festival
Tour of London with Descendance for Toast Festival and Lords performances.
Fusion with Dein Perry from Tap Dogs Parliament House Canberra
Tour of Trinidad Red Earth Festival
Hawaii tour, Honolulu Festival, Schools, Palace Theatre Hilo
Tour of Rome to promote the film Australia by Baz Lurhman.
The Aboriginal Deadly Awards Sydney Opera House 2008
Bulgaria & Netherlands tour 7 weeks through Europe, Descendance.
Manager of Descendance Show Heavitree Resort Alice Springs.
New Zealand Tour through Tourism Australia.
Beijing Olympic Torch Relay performance Canberra
Flames in the Forest Port Douglas Cairns, Spectacular Indigenous performance in rainforest with Pyrotechnics, Laser lighting, and stage reveal.
Australia Week Vancouver for Tourism Australia.
Canberra Multi-Cultural festival (headline)
Tour of Croatia & Serbia to promote Australia Week.
Palm Island performances cultural teachings.
Descendance/Ngaru in (Sydney/Australia): completing Corporate work, International Conventions, Schools, Community Work, Radio Work, Festivals, Jails, Cruise Liners, Workshops, Galleries, Theatres, Museums, Expos, TV, Political Events, Recording, Humanitarian projects for UNESCO and assignments for The Australian Government.
Tour of Spain Barcelona for Spanish Event Company Jolibud
Epcot Centre Disneyworld Florida USA, Six week season of traditional dancing at the 10th World food and wine festival.
Thuringowa Festival North Queensland, Descendance presents a twenty piece dance ensemble which covers all three indigenous styles, traditional mainland, Torres Strait islander and contemporary.
Tours Hungary with Descendance performing in the major summer festivals over one month, including Europe’s biggest festival Sziget, and performances in Vienna, the tour included many major TV appearances.
Descendance produce The Sydney Indigenous festival, Riverside Theatre, Mainland, Torres Straight, and fusion show Flamenco Dreaming.
Descendance production of The Land The Sea, staged in Alice Springs , working with some of the cast of the film Whale Rider, including lead actor Rawiri Parente , performance workshops for indigenous musical combining Aboriginal and Maori cultures.
Descendance in Russia, Aus-trade completed over 20 major events including opening the great Moscow Circus, performing at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Descendance in New Zealand, this tour was sponsored by Air New Zealand, Descendance performed at The Oz Talk conference at Auckland Showground.
Descendance in Hawaii, The Honolulu Festival, TV, and Radio.
Descendance tour of the East Coast of Australia, from Brisbane through to Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and Bangalow.
Descendance at the Dome Olympic Park, leads a 30 piece dance ensemble to perform at some of the biggest corporate events ever held in Sydney for Amway China, nine shows.
Open Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Richard Branson owner of Virgin chooses Descendance to open his International Airlines.
Descendance wins the First Cultural style Olympics in Seoul Korea at The World Culture Open sponsored by UNESCO.
Choreographer for the Crocodile Eisteddfod in the Cape York Peninsula.
The artist in residence at The Art Gallery of NSW.
Performed at 40 Olympic Games Events with Descendance in Sydney as lead singer.