BIG HEAT

Design by Studio Bacon, image by Nick Hanson

BIG HEAT peeks behind the curtain of Tasmanian Championship Wrestling to tell an underdog story of 17-year-old Izzy becoming a local wrestling celebrity. This multi-artform feast captures the significance of our innate need for community and connection. Built on real-life accounts of the trials and tribulations of professional wrestling in Launceston.

WHEN: SEPTEMBER 21st, 22nd, 23rd - 6:30-7:15pm + 23rd - 2:00-3:15pm

WHERE: MILTON HALL, 15 Fredrick Street Launceston (right next to the park)

COST: $15/$10

FEATURING: Cheyne Mitchell, Conor Wild, Freyja Wild, Gabriel Comerford, Grady Lynch, Isabel Partridge, Jane Johnson, Jenni Large + special guest Wrestlers from the TCW

LEAD CREATIVES: Adam Wheeler, Amelia Evans. Cheyne Mitchell

SOUND: Anna Whitaker

COSTUMES: Hickey Hardware

LIGHTS: Cheyne Mitchell

PRODUCER: Emma Porteus

SUPPORTED BY: Arts Tasmania, Festivals Australia, Junction Arts Festival, TCW

BODY BODY COMMODITY

Numerous female bodies are duplicated and surrounded by off cuts of pastel coloured foam pieces.

Image by Gabriel Comerford + Jenni Large

Body Body Commodity

Jenni Large

Five female dancers animate and interact with a mass of pastel foam objects that litter the performance space, ‘exploiting and embracing their habitat’ as the lines between object, body, power and product blur.

$30 / $20

Friday 17 February, 6–7pm

Saturday 18 February, 2–3pm + 6–7pm

Earl Arts Centre, 10 Earl Street, Launceston

Choreographer / dancer: Jenni Large

Dancer / collaborator: Amber McCartney

Dancer / collaborator: Ashleigh Musk 

Dancer / collaborator: Georgia Rudd

Dancer / collaborator: Erin O’Rourke 

Internship dancer: Ebony Nichols 

Sound designer: Anna Whitaker 

Costume + set designer: Michelle Boyde 

Lighting designer + production manager: Chris Jackson 

Producing partner: Tasdance

Supported by Arts Tasmania, RANT Arts Tasmania Project Fund, Regional Arts Fund (QLD), Dancenorth, Judith Wright Centre, Tasdance + Australia Council for the Arts

Venue Partner: Theatre North

baby girl

A women in pink puffer jack, pink socks, and pink sandals looks at the camera wearing a skin coloured mask.

Image by Tra Mi Dinh

Baby Girl

Amber McCartney

A dance performance of a figure caught between their body’s original memories and the persona of a new, otherworldly being.

$30/$20

Friday 24–Sunday 26 February, 6.30–7.10pm

Nolan Gallery, Mona

Choreographer / dancer: Amber McCartney

Costume designer: Geoffrey Watson

Lighting designer + production manager: Chris Jackson

Artistic director: Adam Wheeler

Producer: Emma Porteus

Stay tuned. 2023 Artistic Program coming soon…