FULL 2021 Artistic program coming soon

Once more, our North West community will unite to celebrate the break of day with mapali – Dawn Gathering. This stirring Welcome to Country will mark the opening of our 2021 Festival as the sun rises over the Burnie foreshore.

Created and narrated by artist and cultural leader David mangenner Gough, mapali – ‘gathering’ – will celebrate our palawa creation story: how moinee, the great creator, made lutruwita/Tasmania.

Movement director Adam Wheeler (Tasdance), music director Yyan Ng (percussionist) and the Goldberg Aberline Studio work with hundreds of local artists, community groups and schools to create a special event bringing together performers from our Tasmanian Aboriginal community and beyond – elders, singers, dancers, drummers and visual artists.

Share the dawn with us. Connect with your lutruwita/Tasmania community as together, we celebrate the spirit of our heart-shaped island.

This is a free event however bookings are required.

This is a smoke-free event.

Image by Brodie Weeding

A dancer and a musician meet for the first time – over Zoom. Together, they dream up a project that merges their creative visions. Into their microphones they ask: “Where do we start?”

From there, the conversation continues, resulting in a celebration of human connectedness and the joy of live performance from lutruwita/Tasmania’s own Tasdance. Four new duets from four creative collaborations forged during periods of social isolation will premiere in the lush surrounds of the Tamar Valley.

Tasdance performers led by Adam Wheeler have been paired with a drummer, a saxophonist, an opera singer and a harpist to create an intimate and evocative live performance experience enhanced by the beautiful acoustics of Rowella’s historic wooden hall.

Concept and Curation: Adam Wheeler

Collaborating Artists: Gabriel Comerford, Sam Dundas, Jenni Large, Emily Sanzaro, Amber McCartney, Yyan Ng, Kyall Shanks, Spike Mason

Lighting Design and Production Management: Chris Jackson

Image by Mel De Ruyter

Everyone has a big idea. An idea that is simmering, ready to explore, develop, write down, sing about, tell, build.

Creative North is a curated program of workshops, panel discussions and keynotes with Festival artists that will encourage and support participants to engage with their own ‘big idea’.

Choose your own path through Creative North and find a way to grow and share your idea, or come along to be inspired by others. Sessions will feature some of Tasmania’s finest professional musicians, filmmakers, actors, directors, singers, visual artists, writers and dancers.

Further information on Creative North to be released 15 Feb

Image by Gabby Martin of Declan Galagher, Toby McKnight, Jenni Large in the 2019 MAKE Choreographic Intensive

TROLLS - SCHOOLS TOUR

Trolls is a dance in education project that aims to give school students awareness and skills in relation to cyber bullying. Cyberbullying is bullying that’s done by means of technology – using the internet or social media to hurt, harass or embarrass someone. One in four Australian children aged eight to 15 has experienced cyberbullying. Just as shocking is the fact
that three-quarters of all Australian schools reported cyberbullying last year — with an average of 22 complaints every year in a secondary school. That’s the equivalent of an entire classroom of bullied students per school.

TOUR DATES April 27th - May 1st

To book your school in email info@tasdance.com.au