recent works

Concept + Direction – Adam Wheeler Director – Caitlin Comerford, Stompin Artistic Director
Producer – Alison Copley
Producer – Mary Shannon, Stompin Producer
Sound Design – Anna Whitaker
Production Manager + Lighting Design – Chris Jackson Costume Design – Ingrid Reynolds
Creative Consultant + Videography – Gabriel Comerford

Tasdance Ensemble Olivia McPherson, Jenni Large, Amber McCartney, Kyall Shanks, Damian Meredith

Stompin Cast Ella Williams, Sage Price, Riley Price, Ebony Nichols, Hannah Nichols, Toby McKnight, Zoe Howard, Ruby Howard, Lauren Stanley, Izzy Lockett, Charlotte Mattern, Sophia Mattern, Jack Duncan, Jaan Schild, Anabelle Hawthorne, Cooper Orchard-Skey, Michayla Staines, Sammie Lester, Gabrielle Martin, Emily White

Junjeiri Ballun - Gurul Guareima

Biologically dead yet teeming with life. Five bodies ebbing and flowing to the songlines of the river from the first nations to the locals today. Water splashing, rhythms vibrating, head banging dance that explores how we repair the damage through cultural, classical and contemporary movement, music and magic.

CHOREOGRAPHY Thomas E.S. Kelly

SOUND Thomas E.S. Kelly

COLLABORATING ARTISTS Sofie Burgoyne, Gabriel Comerford, Rachel Arianne Ogle, Isabella Stone

ARTISTIC LIAISONS Adam Wheeler & Carol Wellman

PRODUCER Alison Copley Alison Copley

Fragile Matter

…more than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness… Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator 1940.

CHOREOGRAPHY Christine Gouzelis & Paul Blackman

SOUND Murcof, Ben Frost, Alessandro Scarlatti, Amon Tobin, Jozef Van Wissem, Devo

DANCERS Gabriel Comerford, Robert Flehr, Bec Jones, Olivia McPherson, Jack Riley, Isabella Stone, Nikki Tarling, Robert Tinning

DESIGNERS Lighting: Luca Sirviö Recreated by Darren Wilmott Puppet: Dimitris Nassiakos

Light Entertainment

Light Entertainment is a physical and theatrical exploration of light. Viewed through a prism of rhythm and repetition this hypnotic work shifts perspective from wave to particle, observed to obscured, animal to abstract, entertainment to architecture and finally from light to a space in its absence. The structure of this work takes its form from the wave/particle dichotomy inherent in light itself and as the work progresses both the material explored and the method of creation changes dramatically. The first half of the work explores the wave function of light and is therefore loose in structure; it is concerned with improvisations based around repetition and emergent qualities.

CHOREOGRAPHY Byron Perry

DANCERS Original cast: Dean Cross, Sarah Fiddaman, Brianna Kell, Jenni Large, Timothy Walsh 2015 cast: James Batchelor, Sarah Fiddaman, Katherine Gurr, Brianna Kell, Andrew Searle

DESIGNERS

Set Design Byron Perry, Darren Willmott.  Costumes Tracie Leslie

Thorn

Bodies emerge from the mass. Voyagers and heralds grasp hands as they stride across the dark. Tracing landscapes, leaving footfalls and breathing from the past. Part system and part science-fiction, Thorn creates an evolving landscape for a brave new world. Drawing a wavering line between fantasy and reality, the work is a small study of humans, nature and human nature.

CHOREOGRAPHY Gabrielle Nankivell

MUSIC/SOUND Nick Roux

DANCERS Alana Everett, Bec Jones, Alya Manzart, Robert Alejandro Tinning, Joshua Thomson, Sharon Lee

DESIGNERS Nick Roux