• Major program
  • Let’s Get It Strait
  • Parenthesis
  • Mercy: A dance for the Forgotten
  • One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
  • The Earth beneath our feet
  • Hard Yakka
  • Divine Harmonies
  • In the Frame
  • Light and Shade
  • Fair Game
  • Ripple Effect
  • Treasured Island
  • Hyper Mobile
  • Skin Deep
  • StoryLines
  • Obsession
  • Vital Expression
  • Tease
  • Passionfruit
• Education program

Let’s Get It Strait

This project will give young people (and other artists) living on the three Bass Strait Islands a remarkable opportunity to gain skills in contemporary dance, new media and theatre production through a series of workshops.

Let’s Get it Strait is a creative fusion led by Tasdance and the communities of Flinders, King and Cape Barren Islands that results in a programme of evocative performance experiences.

Participants of all ages from the three island communities bring together an exciting cultural synthesis of sound, movement and music extravaganzas.

There will be two spectacular and unique site specific outdoor performances, one at Stockyard Park overlooking Currie Harbour, King Island and the other in the shadow of Mount Strzelecki at the Flinders Island Sports Club, in Whitemark.

Although these islands are all located in the windy channel of Bass Strait, they are in fact wildly divergent in landscape, people and lifestyle. The two performances are a sensory evocation of the islands and as such, serve to highlight and celebrate this diversity.

In order to unite the islands and the performances, the professional Tasdance ensemble will perform Beth Shelton’s She Oak Sings, as part of both shows. First created in 1987, She Oak Sings evokes the emotive sound of the gentle wind in the trees by using ingenious whirlies created by Sarah Hopkins. Performing alongside the Tasdance ensemble will be community members and school students, supported by a lone dairy cow and a mutton bird called Edna.

Let’s Get it Strait is artistically co-ordinated and choreographed by Emma Porteus and Gavin Clarke, and also involves the following artists:

Visual Artist: Sarah Howell
Media Artist: Martyn Coutts
Composer/Sound Artists: Jon Hizzard & Carl Fidler
Aboriginal Dance Artists: Jeanette Fabila, Desley Roberts & Albert David