Collective Behaviour September

After an epic first edition of Collective Behaviour in August, come and join us September 9th for the next instalment of inclusive improvisational goodness.

No experience required!!

MONDAY 9th of September

7:15pm - 8:15pm

$16/$11 pay at the door

Tasdance Artistic Director Adam Wheeler will teach a new improvisation class called COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR.

Adam has had a long history of exploring and teaching improvisational modes that celebrate the individual while connecting to a larger group.

The monthly class will focus on allowing dancers to explore improvisation, enjoy free and expressive movement with like minded people.

For more information email adam@tasdance.com.au

SIMULCAST is coming to Bendigo

Photography by Pippa Samaya

SIMULCAST is coming to Bendigo - and we need 100 local dancers!

In partnership with Chunky Move and Tasdance, City of Greater Bendigo is looking for 100 volunteer dancers of all ages to be part of a large-scale dance work to be held at the iconic Poppet Head site in Bendigo August - October 2019.

We are looking for 10-15 Young Leaders: 
Dynamic, confident and articulate individuals with a strong level of dance skill & training who are passionate about dance and getting people dancing.
REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotformeu.com/91811454381355

We are looking for 100 Volunteer Dancers: 
Local dancers of all ages willing to learn, rehearse and perform simple dance sequences as part of a 15-minute outdoor dance work:
REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotformeu.com/91852968081367

Secondment Opportunity with Thomas E.S. Kelly

Thomas E.S. Kelly - CO_EX_EN, Dance Massive 2019

Tasdance is offering secondment places over a two week period starting September 9th until September 20th.

Thomas E.S. Kelly will be in residence at Tasdance redeveloping his work Junjeiri Ballun - Gurul Gaureima, which premiered at The Unconformity Festival in 2018.

Thomas is a proud Bundjalung-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri, Ni-Vanuatu man and part of the Tasdance Makers’ ensemble since 2018.

We are delighted to offer the following:

2 places available week 1 - September 9th-13th

2 places available week 2 - September 16th-20th

Secondments will have the chance to do class with the Thomas and his cast each morning, partake in rehearsals, connect with Tasdance’s Artistic Director and gain experience in working in a professional company.

NEW CLASS ON OFFER - Collective Behaviour with Adam Wheeler

Photo by Rachel Main from the Australia Youth Dance Festival

Beginning Monday August 5th and then on the first Monday of each month, Tasdance Artistic Director Adam Wheeler will teach a new improvisation class called COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR.

Adam has had a long history of exploring and teaching improvisational modes that celebrate the individual while connecting to a larger group.

The monthly class will focus on allowing dancers to explore improvisation, enjoy free and expressive movement with like minded people.

No Experience Required 

MONDAY 5th of August 7:15pm-8:15pm

Tasdance, 197 Wellington Street

$16 pay at the door.

For more information email adam@tasdance.com.au

Secondment Opportunity

Tasdance is offering secondment places over a two week period starting August 26th until September 7th.

We are looking for recent graduates or students currently studying tertiary dance who have a particular interested in solo practice and learning about producing site specific works.

The Tasdance Artists will be in their final preparations in making their solo works for FIRST FLOOR being presented at Junction Arts Festival.

We are delighted to offer the following:

2 places available week 1 - August 26th-30th

2 places available week 2 - September 2nd-7th

Secondments will have the chance to do class with the company each morning, partake in rehearsals, connect with the 2019 Tasdance Artists, spend time learning about producing site specific works with the Artistic Director and General Manager and gain experience in working in a professional company.

To apply click on the button below

FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR at JUNCTION ARTS FESTIVAL

From forgotten bakeries to decommissioned theatres, First Floor transports audiences from living in the now to reminiscing what was, to experiencing what may have never been realised.

Five new solo works woven between mystery and intrigue created by some of Australia’s most exciting dance makers and curated by Launceston’s very own Tasdance. 

THURS 5 7PM & 8:30PM | FRI 6 7PM & 8:30PM | SAT 7 7PM & 8:30PM

$27/$20

Duration: 60 min

Venue: Meet at the Prince's Square Box Office at least 15 mins prior to performance start time.

This is a promenade performance, please dress for the weather.

Ages 15 +

Access to performance venues is via stairs, unfortunately this performance is not accessible.

Trà Mi Dinh - On The Island Residency Program Showing

Join us on Friday 28th of June as On The Island Resident Trà Mi Dinh shares what she has been working on over the past two weeks.

TASDANCE 197 Wellington Street

6pm-7pm

A note from Trà Mi
"Thanks to Tasdance’s On The Island Residency program, I’ll be dedicating these next two weeks to an intensive creation period to develop a new work.

Initially, my focus will be on sensation; experiencing and studying the patterns/mechanics/nature of my physical responses to a concept. Playing with these physical impressions encourages a curiosity about the different textures we can absorb and manifest in the moving body. It is in this state of discovery and research that forms the foundation for my time at this residency - which I’m sure will shift and transform many times over.."

dancemaker 2019

Book TROLLS for your School NOW!!!!

TROLLS is a dance in education project that aims to give school students awareness and skills in relation to cyber bullying. 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.

Tasdance has developed a high impact dance theatre work that involves school students in fun participation based activities that examine the consequences of our actions online. The work uses cause and effect choreographic devices to demonstrate that every word we type online has an effect on whoever it is directed
at. Equipped with a large screen portable television and computer on a stand, TROLLS can be presented in any gym, hall, multipurpose space or theatre.

Formats and Cost

TROLLS, is ideal for large or small school groups (both primary and secondary schools) and can be presented in two different formats dependant on the requirements of the school.

Format 1 - A 35-minute performance followed by a Question and Answer session (duration is half day) - $800

Format 2 - A 35-minute performance followed by a Question and Answer session, plus one or two dance workshop to dig deeper into the themes of the work. Workshops can be catered in a number of different formats (duration is one day) - $1,200

Dates

TROLLS is available to Schools across Tasmania from: 10th to 19th September
Bookings must be finalised by 20th July 2019.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact Tasdance at info@tasdance.com.au

Kayah Guenther - Dance of a Gentle Warrior Showing

KAYAH GUENTHER

Dance of a Gentle Warrior Showing

Tasdance Studio 

Friday 31st May 2019

6:00pm

197 Wellington Street, Launceston

 Please join us this Friday 31st May at 6:00pm for a special showing of our current artist in residence, Kayah Guenther from regional NSW.  Kayah is a 2018 recipient of the Innovating Dance Practice grant from Ausdance NSW. This sees Kayah developing a work titled Dance of a Gentle Warrior with our very own Tasdance artist Gabriel Comerford. 

 About Kayah….

 Kayah’s practice crosses dance and theatre.  This year Kayah has worked with Aha Ensemble (Daniele Constance) and Phluxus Dance Collective (Nerida Matthaei) to development a work titled ‘Explain Normal’ to be performed at Supercell Dance Festival in Brisbane and Metro Arts in October 2019.

 Kayah was a successful recipient of The Creative Development Grant through HOTA (Home of The Arts - Gold Coast) which sees him develop a work with his sister sister Maitreyah Guenther titled ‘Siblingo-A Life in Translation’ in collaboration with Gavin Webber and Kate Harman from’ The Farm’ and playwright Suzie Miller.

 In 2018 Kayah collaborated with director, Paul Gazzola and four emerging artists with disabilities from New South Wales & South Australia (Joshua Crampton, Zakaria Ghomri, Lorcan Hopper and Max McAuley) in the first stage development, Of Boys and Men. Kayah has recently completed the second development stage in Adelaide in April/ May before coming to Launceston to work at Tasdance with Gabriel Comerford. 

 Kayah has had a wide range of experience working with Philip Channells (Dance Integrated Australia), Gavin Webber (The Farm) and Travers Ross (YT Dingo). Through the Screenworks 'Createability' program he collaborated with HW Collective (Poppy Walker and Sophie Hexter) on the multi award-winning short film, The Battle (2015). 

 For More Information https://www.kayahguenther.com

 We look forward to welcoming you at Tasdance on Friday 31st May at 6:00pm

SIMULCAST TRAILER

Did you miss SIMULCAST at Dance Massive this year?

Well here is a little teaser of what we made.

A solo for 401.

SIMULCAST is a study in simplicity. Young, old, trained and untrained dancers will work together to create this murmuration, taking place in Melbourne at Birrarung Marr. Created and produced by Chunky Move in association with Tasdance and Yellow Wheel, SIMULCAST is a solo for celebrated Australian dancer James O’Hara, supported by a local cast of 400.

A reflection on the fact that we are all part of something bigger and increasingly removed from a sense of human connectedness SIMULCAST brings us back. It is a contradiction. It is about the single and the multiple, minimalism and spectacle. Visually beautiful and aesthetically satisfying, solo movements trigger mass cannons, ricochets and swarms. Amidst moments of unity and discord we must listen to one another and respond. Watch as one moving body multiplies into hundreds.

Presented by Chunky Move and Dance Massive

Concept & Direction: Alice Lee Holland 
Choreography: Alice Lee Holland & James O’Hara, supported by Adam Wheeler and Sofie Burgoyne (Tasdance) & Joshua Lowe and Kyall Shanks (Yellow Wheel) 
Soloist: James O’Hara
Music: Kelly Ryall

Trolls - A New Dance Education Work Showing

Trolls is the next instalment of daring to be different dance works by Tasdance.

Directed by Artistic Director, Adam Wheeler in collaboration with Gabriel Comerford and Cody Lavery with special choreographic assistance by Kady Mansour and Nikky Muscat.

Trolls tackles the world of internet trolling through an interactive dance work made and designed for any school in any town.

Come join us next Friday 12th at 6pm to be the first to see this new work. Feel free to bring a friend, enjoy a drink and experience Tasdance's education reboot.

A Business Like This - Sofie Burgoyne Showing

Tasdance Artist, Sofie Burgoyne is sharing her latest work in development. 

A Business Like This 
March 1 7pm at Tasdance.

Sofie is attempting to develop a living archive to explore the female body in the field of work. A series of interviews with women from around Launceston working in aged care, education, agriculture and human resources, has become the material for the work thus far.

Sofie has collaborated with artists Isabella Stone, Tess Campbell and Lucy Bleach during her residency at Tasdance.

With immense thanks to Curly Haslam-Coates, Geraldine Beaubien, Joh Bloomberg, Clare Jackson, Rosemarie Campbell, Melody West, Shannon Douglas, Alison Jales, Andrea Dawkins and Tasdance.

Note: May contain nudity and course language.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR DANCERS, MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pepa Ubera In Residence Showing

Pepa Ubera joins us from the UK and has been spending the last two weeks in residency at Tasdance. Pepa is visiting Tasmania through our partnership with Critical Path and we are delighted to be sharing what she has been working on with you all.

A Little Bit About Pepa's Practice
Pepa Ubera is a freelance dance artist whose choreographic practice expands into curatorial projects and the use of video in performance. Her work challenges social structures, questioning how the body behaves in the current context, mediating real time spaces as opportunities to deal with the unknown and the poetic as tools for transformation. She examines the tension that unites opposite ideas with the purpose of highlighting the spaces in between. The organic and the artificial, consumption and production are some of the concepts she explores in her artistic practice.
In her residency at Tasdance she will be researching how choreography can deal with the Anthropocene and how her practice can engage with the landscape and community of Tasmania.

For More Information
www.pepaubera.com

Rehearsals have begun for SIMULCAST

For the last two weekends Adam and Sofie have been working with Alice Lee Holland from Chunky Move and Josh Lowe and Kyall Shanks from Yellow Wheel to begin the mammoth task of creating a solo for 401. In a scorching hot Melbourne day of 38 degrees, the whole cast meet for the first time. From now until March 24th the cast has been split into eight groups and rehearse across four locations.

SIMULCAST will premier on March 24th at 3pm at Birrarung Marr - Upper & Lower Terrace.

Where to Find YATRA at Mona Foma

WHERE TO FIND YATRA AT MONA FOMA

YATRA kicks off on the following times: FRIDAY 5:30pm & 6:45pm // SATURDAY 3pm

Although the performance will happen in The Annexe Theatre, each show begins in the middle of the tramways. This map will guide you on your way.

Each show can only hold 160 people.

Please email info@tasdance.com.au if you have any questions.

We can’t wait to see you at our show.

DANCE MASSIVE 2019 IS HERE

Dance Massive 2019 has just launched it’s program and Tasdance is loud and proud.

Come dance with us, Chunky Move & Yellow Wheel in Simulcast March 24th

Tasdance Artist’s Thomas ES Kelly will be present CO_EX_EN as well as a teach a master class. Rachel Arianne Ogle will present i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night at The Substation.

Click on the links below for more information.

Adam will join long time collaborators Frankie Snowdon & Madeleine Krenek from GUTS Dance in The Perception Experiment.

Plus loads more of exciting contemporary dance to fest on.

CALL OUT FOR 400 DANCERS AS PART OF DANCE MASSIVE 2019

BE PART OF DANCE MASSIVE 2019. 
CALL OUT FOR VOLUNTEERS - DANCERS
Seeking 400 Victorian dancers of all ages to be the heart and soul of an epic outdoor performance with Chunky Move, Tasdance and Yellow Wheel

As one of the 400, you will:

• Be a vital part of an incredible, mass outdoor performance

• Meet and dance with new people

• Work with professional choreographers from Chunky Move, Tasdance and Yellow Wheel

• Be at least 8 years old (please note there is no maximum age!)

 What’s involved:

• Learning, rehearsing and performing simple dance movements and sequences as part of a 10-minute choreography

• Working as part of a team

 Commitment (see registration form for further details):

• 7 x three-hour rehearsals on either Saturdays or Sundays – mornings or afternoons – in February and March 2019 at various locations (TBC)

• Dress rehearsal Saturday 23 March (location TBC)

• Performance Sunday 24 March (location TBC)

Photo by Pippa Samaya

Secondment Opportunity

Tasdance is offering secondment places over a two week period starting January 7th until January 19th. The Tasdance Artists and local Launceston Bhutanese community will be in the final stages of producing their new work Yatra as part of Mona Foma 2019.

We are looking for recent graduates or students currently studying tertiary dance who have a particular interest in working in cross-cultural and community practices.

We are delighted to offer the following:

2 places available week 1 - January 7th-11th

2 places available week 2 - January 14th-19th

Secondees will have the chance to do class with the company each morning, partake in rehearsals, connect with the 2019 Tasdance Artists, spend time with the Artistic Director and gain experience in working in a professional company.

To apply click on the button below

Applications close Midnight Friday 30th of November and successful applications will be notified Tuesday 4th of December.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email Adam at adam@tasdance.com.au

Pic from Stephanie Lake’s The Howl 2015