Stompin

2010 – Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School

Workshop Leader: Adam Wheeler

Dates: January 2010

Participants: 20 Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer school participants

The University of Tasmania invited Stompin to provide the dance component of its highly successful Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School program held at the Academy of the Arts. Led by Adam Wheeler, the workshop consisted of a solid introduction to contemporary dance technique alongside investigations into dance composition, choreography and safe dance practices. Utilising Adam’s own dance methodology, derived from his professional experiences with Australia’s leading dance practitioners, the workshop culminated in a collaboratively developed performance exploring the popular social phenomenon – flash mobbing.  The participants worked towards university credits.

Stompin and the University have entered into a new partnership. The University provided Stompin with Scholarships to award young people in grade 11 or 12 in 2010 who Stompin has worked with throughout 2009. These Scholarships and this partnership will continue for the 2011 Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School.

2010 – High School and College Dance Workshops

Workshop Leader: Emma Porteus

Participants: Tasmanian High Schools and Colleges

Dates: Ongoing, throughout the school year

A contemporary dance workshop taught by Emma Porteus in the high schools of Launceston and regional Tasmania. These workshops are a powerful resource for recruiting future Stompin members and are often the first exposure for many regional young people to contemporary art.

A School Pack has been sent to all Tasmanian schools offering workshops, tickets to YouTubeLive, opportunities to participate in YouTubeLive and the potential to be involved in the Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School in 2011. Each school pays for workshops and tickets to YouTubeLive.

2010 – The Kindness

Workshop Leader: Emma Porteus

Concept development: Becky Hilton

Participants: Grade 5 and 6 students confirmed from Northern Tasmanian schools.

Development: 2nd and 3rd term 2010 in schools

Event: End of 3rd term 2010 in Launceston at the Stompin Studio

The Kindness is a participatory art project designed specifically for upper primary level students. It involves Tasmanian primary schools, local and regional. The Kindness project is led by Stompin alumni, teacher and community artist, Emma Porteus. The participants will collect and collate written, recorded, filmed, drawn, photographed and performed moments of kindness they have witnessed, heard about, read about, experienced or generated. Each child will create his or her own kindness collection. At the culmination of the project, Stompin will exhibit this giant kindness library in our home space with a multi media art party for all the participants. We see The Kindness as a way to introduce the values and aesthetics of Stompin to 10 to 12 year olds:  a simple, fun process with a social conscience and a celebratory outcome.

Performances in 2010

This Dance Is Who We Are

Concept: Becky Hilton

Director: Adam Wheeler

Rehearsal Director: Emma Porteus

Cast: 16 Stompin dancers

Mentor: Becky Hilton

Development: September 2009

Performances: Launceston Festivale – 12 February 2010

Equal parts archaeological dig, contemporary dance and flash mob, Adam and the dancers have mined the Stompin dance archive to create a 5-7 minute dance. This mash up of our favourite Stompin moves from our 18-year history is flexible in design and morphs in response to various performance contexts. This Dance Is Who We Are features choreography from past Stompin works from Jerril Rechter, Luke George, Bec Reid, Stephanie Lake, Antony Hamilton and Adam Wheeler. This is a ready-made, rapid response Stompin signature event for us to perform at local events, launches, festivals, street fairs, school celebrations, award ceremonies and block parties etc. This Dance Is Who We Are is very us, very now and very much about the collaborative process.

WeTubeLive

Concept and Direction: Ben Speth

Design Realisation and Production: Frog Peck and Eduard Ingles from Bluebottle

Cast: Young Tasmanians

Project Facilitators: Becky Hilton, Adam Wheeler and Emma Porteus

Development: January – August 2010

Performances: 26 and 27 August 2010

A living exhibition of 100 solos ripped from the internet performed live & all-at-once by young Tasmanians.

Stompin presents WeTubeLIVE, a diverse group of young Tasmanians in a large-scale performed response to the social networking site YouTube.

Each performer has selected and learned their favorite YouTube clip and we’ll present them all together and all at the same time, filling Launceston’s beautiful Albert Hall with dancing, talking and singing young people.

This is not your regular sit-down performance, Stompin invites you to wander through our giant living exhibition; come and go as many times as you like and see what we’re up to, what we’re into and who we are.

2009

Tales From A Small City at Door of Hope, Launceston. Choreographers Stephanie Lake and Antony Hamilton

Stompin has collaborated with over 80 Australian artists, arts workers and volunteers and over 300 young performers over the past 19 years for which we are extremely grateful, for their vision, commitment and creativity. If you are interested in being involved in any of Stompin’s activity call or email us.

2008

Uncover This in a house and cul-de-sac in Launceston – an edgy two-part dance experience that turns private lives into public property. Choreographer Adam Wheeler

2007

Home at Meat Market, North Melbourne. Choreographer Luke George

2006

We Don’t Need Another Mural at a Carpark in Launceston – Stompin’s 16th birthday celebration. Choreographers Luke George and Antony Hamilton

Home in Roberts Woolstore, Launceston – Home is about the place we live and the living we create. Choreographer Luke George

Bone Dry and Green in Roxby Downs, South Australia. Choreographers Adam Wheeler and Emma Porteus

Special Mention at Sydney Opera House – Special Mention explores the relentless pressure to succeed and the growing cultural divide created by our judgment of failure.Choreographers Luke George and Bec Reid

2005

Citizen in Qantas Maintenance Hangar, Launceston Airport in 10 Days on the Island – Citizen looks at the choices young people make in relation to who they are right now, who they aspire to be and who they are choosing to become. Choreographers Bec Reid and Stephanie Lake.

Drill at Sydney Opera House. Choreographers Luke George and Bec Reid

2004

Age of Consent in Pilgrim Hall, Launceston – Age of Consent examines the choices young people make in relation to the written and unwritten rules that shape their lives. Choreographer Luke George. Creative Workshop at Old Womens Jail in Melbourne in Next Wave Festival. Choreographer Bec Reid

2003

SYNC toured to 8 Tasmanian regional swimming pools in 10 Days on the Island – S.Y.N.C. explores how pools provide environments for young people to socialise and be themselves – loitering, congregating and meeting. Choreographers Luke George and Bec Reid

2002

Joyride at Windmill Hill Swimming Pool, Launceston. All above Luke George and Bec Reid. Underground at Rollerworld, Launceston – Underground explores sub-cultures, life in layers and the things that are literally in the earth below us.

2001


Placement at Devonport Bluff, Devonport . Jerril Rechter and Tim Newth

2000

Primed at Inveresk, Launceston. Choreographer Jerril Rechter. Primed at Inveresk, Launceston. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

1999

Placement development performance at Royal Park, Launceston. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

Destination – a film at Kings Wharf, Launceston. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

1998

Distance, a collaboration with Danceworks at Kings Wharf, Launceston and at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in the Next Wave Festival – Stompin represented Tasmania, performing at the World Festival of Island Cultures in Cheju,Korea. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

1997

Grind 2 at Launceston Showground, Motor Pavilion, Launceston – a total re work of Grind. Grind 2 in Darwin Supreme Court at Australian Youth Festival (no pic). All above Jerril Rechter

1996

Arboreal at Hollybank, Launceston – a unique project focussing on Tasmania’s strong link with its natural environment. All above Jerril Rechter

Grind at Launceston Webster Building. Grind in Melbourne in Next Wave Festival – sensual high energy dance with mind blowing visual imagery and physicality.

1995

Code at Coats Patons, Launceston – a multi media assault on the senses. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

1994

Action with Attitude, St.John and Paterson Street, Launceston – a combination of skills of dance and blading to present a statement of current youth culture. Choreographer Jerril Rechter

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