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wow - you can probably tell from my silent treatment that yes, we’re going full-throttle with the show. Home is huge and complex in many interesting ways. creating choreography with 5 different groups/rooms is quite something. then there’s the aspect of the guiding dancers who as their name suggest, need to flow through all the rooms and therefore know them all - yikes! everyday we rehearse in the set we notice something new and cool,thanks to our wicked production manager richard dinnen, the fabulous and tireless bec reid and now extra dudes marko respondeck and yasmin santoso (stompin alumni!!). luke smiles and ben cisterne are dreaming up and making some awesome sound and lighting. it’s going to be a massive week of technical and dress rehearsals and so interesting to see how it actually comes together and works - concept concept!!!! see you at home.

GO SEE: a new show by stompin dancer josh lowe, who is putting on his own work in Launceston whilst rehearsing for Home! it’s on friday and saturday this week > check it out!

it also features stompin alumni chelsea. good luck guys!

check out former stompin dancer, Amalia perform in:

HATCHED! @ St.Martins, Fri 15 to Sat 16 Sept 8pm and Sun 6pm. 44 St. Martin Lane South Yarra, VIC. bookings 03 9250 0760 check it out!

We have great pleasure in welcoming Kyle back to Stompin! This time Kyle is teaching our Shop program. It started last week and is lots of fun so if you want to participate not too late. Call Sarah at Stompin on 6334 3802 or email sarah@stompin.net.

here’s kyle performing “aether” by lucy guerin (pictured with kirstey mccracken)

Kyle began dancing in 1997 with Stompin under the directorship of Jerril Rechter. He participated in Grind 2 and Distance with which he toured locally, nationally and internationally.
Since moving to Melbourne Kyle has completed his Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at Deakin University and graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in Arts and Events Management.
Over the past five years Kyle has worked with companies Lucy Guerin Inc (Melt, Plasticine Park, Love Me and Aether), BalletLab (Upholster), Strange Fruit (The Spheres and The Field) and numerous independent choreographers among these Shelley Lasica (Play in a Room). Kyle has performed with the aforementioned companies both within Australia and overseas.
Kyle is currently working with TasDance on their season The Earth Beneath our Feet, in which he performs in work by Nanette Hassall, Byron Perry and Tanja Liedtke. Kyle has also toured with TasDance to the Australian Performing Arts Market with Divine Harmonies.

callin out to da SOUTHSIDE!!!

Workshops in contemporary dance with Kyle Kremerskothen, ex-Stompin dancer, danced with Lucy Guerin Ltd and BalletLab and now with Tasdance.

18 May to 15 June > every thursday night 6.00pm – 7.00pm
STOMPIN’s studio > dicky whites lane, Launceston > $10 per session

book your five week block - call us now on 03 6334 3802

open to ages 13 – 30

Photography © Patrick Ronald and Shannon McDonell

Just got back from the 5th Australian Youth Dance Festival in “awesome Horsham!” What a blast! 250 youth participants, 20 choreographers and me with a mircophone…what were they thinking???

Back in Hobart now working with Stompin Alumni Sandi on our second stage of Bodyworks for the Works Festival. Great to get back to the metal and hiphop mix for the crankin’ dance party TEAR IT UP - on Fri 19th May.

So folks, from Woomera to Horsham to Hobart - this grrl is on a roll…

So, after a buzzing flight on a very little plane over the giant salt flats of the outback, Emma and I arrive in Roxby Downs to the sheer mania of 20 adoring dancers!

Adam and Emma have truly become local celebrities in the area, often on the radio and being mobbed on the street for autographs - yeah, yeah, I’m not joking…

Last night, BONE DRY and GREEN premiered at the opening of the Outback Fringe Festival in Andamooka, approx. 600kms due north from Adelaide!

Adam and Emma have created a beautiful work full of the imagery of their responses to the landscape fused with the energy and vision of the participants - it’s hot!

For the next three days the work will be performed in three different locations, an incredible sign of the dancers’ maturity and flexibility and Adam and Emma’s leadership.

Best quote so far:

1) Adam is being interviewed on the radio before flying out to return to work with Chunky Move…

Adam: “I don’t want to leave to go to the Opera House…”

Buffa (local youth DJ): “Opera House - where’s that?”

Emma: “Brisbane.”

Over and out from the endless outback that is ‘Straya!

right now adam and the dancers in roxby downs south australia are madly rehearsing for their debut performance on saturday night. sounds like the town of roxby’s in for something freeeeeesh!
go dancers
go adam
go emma!

good luck and have an awesome show

love stompin

So GOLD was a HUGE hit! Over 30 of Melbourne’s hottest hip hop dancers ripped up Meyers Place in celebration of the 2006 Next Wave Festival.

I’ ve learnt some tasty new moves to bring back to Stompin - so look out dancers, the girl’s got a new groove…

Oh yeah, and Stompin alumni extraordinaire Emma Porteous and I are off to the South Australian outback for the performances of BONE DRY and GREEN, as part of the 2006 Outback Fringe Festival.

We’ll keep you posted from the sunburnt country…

Stompin headed south today! Bec has started a new project with young people from Hobart called ‘BodyWorks.’ As part of The Works Festival and over three months, Bec and Stompin alumni extraordinaire Sandi Rapson will work with up to 70 participants from the Glenorchy region to create a crankin new dance work. The participants will perform their fresssssh moves at TEAR IT UP, a crankin’ all ages hip hop and metal party at the Derwent Entertainment Centre. So far we’re thinkin of bustin’ some shiny new moves to Aerosmith’s undeniable classic “Walk this Way.” Stay tuned to see what happens…

STOMPIN! I’m sitting here watching Adam Wheeler lead a choreographic workshop as a guest for Back in the Lab. Totally hot!!!

He’s back after creating some mighty fine moves with young people in the outback; sharing his experiences of mining trucks and desert dunes with our fine young thangs in the studio…

Who’s leading who? Lines blur, histories mix, generations cross… YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!

Heck - even Luke and I join in for a 5, 6, 7, 8!