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hey dancers. here is your rehearsals schedule for Feb 11 - March 8

Uncover This Rehearsal Schedule.pdf

Hello hello. Today is the first day of my fellowship with Stompin. This is a very exciting time for me and would like to keep everyone updated on the great things we will be doing here.

On Saturday we had our audition for the project, had a fantastic turn out and a very successful day. We got a hot group of dancers!!!

The project titled Uncover This looks at the effort of keeping up appearances and what we will do to hide things we don’t want people to see.

The fellowship runs for 4 weeks and in this time we will be exploring, dissecting and exposing every facet of covering up. We have a team of 10 dancers working with me intensively as well as meeting twice a week with the entire company. This is a development period for the project and any feedback, advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Keep checking in and seeing where we’re at and shortly we will be launching You Tell Us, stories that shouldn’t be told.

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
Read the entire reviews… (more…)

no peeps from us for a while, that’s probably because we’re deep deep inside creative development and rehearsals for Home.

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The spunky new Melbourne cast and have been in the studio making loads of cool new stuff. lots of new ideas and movement for the Living Room, Kitchen and Bathroom.

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i’ve kept the original style and feeling to these rooms but we’re making brand new stuff - trying some new and risky approaches. loads of fun - great bunch of dancers.

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the Launceston crew have been rehearsing the Bedroom and Dining Room hard, getting back last year’s great work, getting newcomers Justin (previously in the Kitchen) and Joel the roles and there’s a kickin new version of Dining Room!!!

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Me and the Melbourne guiding dancers are heading down to Tas on Friday so they can rehearse with Launnie crew, then everyone comes to Melbourne!!

two weeks

arggh!! yeah!!

ever wanted to tango?

why not try it out at the Cambalache Tango Club taking classes friday nights in our lovely space > pow!

hey Launceston and Melbourne dancers for Home.

here is the Launceston schedule > > Home Lton cast rehearsal schedule.pdf
and the Melbourne schedule > > Home melb cast rehearsal schedule.pdf
see the Melbourne crew on Saturday 28 July for our first big weekend and the Launceston crew on August 13 to revisit some of the good ol’ stuff!

we finally submitted to the tsunami of people networks that is myspace and have set up our own >> myspace.com/stompinishere

so check us out, add Stompin as your friend, stay tuned for upcoming shows and use it to tell the myspace world about the thing you’re apart of.

21 August -> 18 September

Tuesday nights 6pm -> 7pm

Stompin’s studio Quadrant Mall Launceston

5 classes for only $45! Bargain!

Book now 03) 6334 34802 or sarah@stompin.net

last Saturday we held an audition for a cast of Melbourne dancers to join the cast of Home for our big show in Arts House Meat Market this September.

i was completely overwhelmed by the 36 dancers that came - what a talented and interesting bunch of people! i wish i could have accepted them all.

stompin alumnus adam wheeler took them through their paces.

thanks to all those that came and on to making the show!

FINALLY some pics from We Don’t Need Another Mural performed on April 14. thanks to Bert Spinx for taking some nice photos of the show > CHECK EM OUT