Stompin

daniel (lighting design), luke (artistic director) and TOC (production manager) slogging it out on Uncover This production.

the bed needed testing.

hurry get tickets now!

Cameras have been installed in the Uncover This House. very soon you will be able to see inside, invading private lives and spaces. keep your eye on here for more details.

UNCOVER THIS - tickets The Princess Theater 03 6323 3666

If you’re coming to see Uncover This Part 2 - The Cul-De-Sac, download this pdf map of where to park on the night.

uncover this part 2 parking map.pdf

UNCOVER THIS /// 30 SEP - 11 OCT

A two part dance work performed in a residential house and a cul-de-sac in Launceston. Uncover This is about exposing hidden aspects of our private lives to the public.

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PART 1-THE HOUSE 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1ST, 3RD, 4TH OCTOBER AT 8PM

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PART 2 THE CUL-DE-SAC 10TH, 11TH OCTOBER AT 8PM

Artistic Director: Luke George
Choreographer: Adam Wheeler
Performers: 25 young Stompin dancers
Lighting Designer: Daniel Zika
Composer: David Franzke
Image & Graphic Design: tin&ed
Video: Daniel Speed and Sam Thiele

Adults: $15 / Concession: $10
Double ticket special price: Adults $25 and concession $15
For performance location details and bookings call:
the Princess Theatre 03 6323 3666
Book now. Limited tickets available.

Twenty-five fresh and exciting Stompin dancers have collaborated with Choreographer Adam Wheeler and a team of artists to create a two-part dance experience (more…)

that’s right, Melbourne street zine Inpress recently published their arts writers poll and wrap up of the year’s shows and exhibitions.  arts writer Rebecca Cook named Stompin’s Arts House season of Home as the number 1 best performance for 2007!!  thanks rebecca.  glad you liked it.

to all Stompers, past and present and all our artists, staff, volunteers and supporters - have a great summer and happy new year.

to wrap an excellent year for Stompin up in a xmas stocking nutshell…

>>one of Australia’s hottest young choreographers and dancers Antony Hamilton made a new work on the company which was performed in a one night music and dance event We Don’t Need Another Mural April 14 which also featured new and return work by Luke George and sets by bands Tom Bombadil, Emma Dilemma, Kids in Sandbox and DJ Patty Duke

>>SHOP dancers picked up some hot moves from the talents of teachers Trisha Dunn, Emma Porteus and James Shannon

>>a cast of 12 Tassie dancers along with an emormous set design, toured Stompin’s 2006 smash hit Home to Melbourne, picking up 14 new local Melbourne dancers to join the cast and making new choreography with Luke. Home was performed in Arts House Meat Market to a passionate response by local audiences, artists and critics.

>>emerging choreographer Adam Wheeler is the first recipient of the Stompin Fellowship. through this support he is developing his ideas and work through the company over 2007 and 08. Adam has just finished his first creative development with a new cast of dancers for his new work - Uncover This to be be performed in the second half of 2008

have a hot and sizzling summer and see you for big stuff next year!

Luke and Stompin

Brindabella is back and about to be performed - we open on wednesday. for the past 5 weeks, i’ve been back in the studio with Phillip and the fabulous BalletLab crew rehearsing and putting the finishing touches to the work. dancing life is great, my usual day is goes something like:

>wake up and drag my aching bones out of bed and into a scorching shower, coffee (essential) and a big brekkie >go to a 90 minute class (either yoga or a company dance class at chunky move) or a swim to warm up >rehearse with the gang, one of the dancers has had a major injury and won’t be performing so the cast members are sharing the role which means teaching and learning the choreography, polishing things up, detailed notes and making the work damn hot. >cool-down with a stretch and chat after rehearsal and plan the next day >head home or out to a show, there’s so many shows on in melbourne right now. if i get home it’s a big dinner and a bath or foot massage to ease the aches and pains.

when you write it down, it sounds kind of like a romanticised idea of what being a dancer is like. i guess that’s what it is. having a ball, Brindabella is probably the most challenging show i’ve ever performed physically and emotionally/intellectually. should be a ripper of a season. if you’re in melbourne come see us, this week only…

Brindabella
by BalletLab
Wed 5 Dec - Sat 8 Dec
Malthouse Theatre, South Bank Melbourne
Bookings 9585 5111
or their website

Lies, deception, conspiracy. How far will you go to cover up something you don’t want other people to know ? Adam Wheeler, former Stompin dancer, now professional dancer and a fiery emerging choreographer is making Stompin’s new work UNCOVER THIS. If you think you’ve got what it takes to unleash the truth through innovative and high energy dance, Stompin is for you!

Home and hosed - the show is over and it was a ripping success. lots of happy audiences and dancers, full tummies on yummy home recipe group titbits, tired by satisfied bodies, tonnes of great feedback, tears and fond fairwells.

here’s some bits from our review in The Age:

“Stompin takes their audiences on a tour through time and space in an immersive presentation that celebrates the bonds of community built around family, food and dance. In this close-up performance, the dancers are in the audience’s face. They stomp across the dining table at which we are seated, surge across the bedroom, forcing us backwards, colliding, to grapple and collapse, or conducting intimate non-verbal conversations with looks that could kill. Home is a thoroughly engaging encounter. Stompin is bursting with ideas and a terrific Tassie export.” - Hilary Crampton, The Age, 14 Sept 07.

and some stuff from Australian Stage Online:

“Audience members are subject to a rollercoaster of emotions as they move from room to room; from start to finish, the sense of anticipation and curiosity the work provokes is intense… Home is a rich hothouse of personal experience and intimate memories made physical… The conviction and depth of these young performers was impressive, the set an ingenious concept taking the movement to a new level. Here’s to many more return seasons of this stirring, engaging work!” - Jessica Thomson, Australian Stage Online 19 September 2007
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