Stompin

Cameras have been installed in the Uncover This House. Here you can see inside, invading private lives and spaces.

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covert video footage is also screening on public screens in the following locations:

Begents Electrical - Launceston
58 Wellington St

Jessups Retravision - Launceston
108 Charles Street

Harvey Norman
Cnr Williams and Charles Sts.

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…)

Home

…is a performance installation by young artists of dance and architecture about the place we live and the living we create. The creation of Home was inspired by artists Luke George and Bec Reid’s dual experiences between their relationship to Tasmania as their original home, and the ever-growing ‘design for living / lifestyle’ culture in a media savvy and mass consuming, contemporary society.We wanted to create a dance work that was an immersive experience where the audience views and engages the performance in a physical and intimate way. By “installation” we mean a performance and set design that is installed in a fixed place in which an audience journeys through over a period of time. We took inspiration from the way you catch a theme park ride for the design and performance concept of Home and the way in which younger people are experiencing and defining a highly mobile and personalised sense of home (ipod, myspace.com…) – Luke George and Bec Reid

Each ride fits up to 10 audience members and a new ride departs every 5 minutes. Audience groups are guided through 5 rooms of separate homes by an individual guiding dancer: living, dining, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Each room is a new home and new people, as if audience were walking through the walls between houses in a street or apartment building.

Ideas behind the work and choreography ::: Home and living as a commodity, modern obsession with achieving the ultimate lifestyle, surrounding ourselves with luxury ::: seeking independence, leaving the family home, breaking with tradition but bringing all that history with you and colliding with others’ ideas and values ::: visiting the past, what is our sense of origin and connection to where and whom we come from? histories, memories, heirlooms and traits. as we race forward, are we repeating the past or ignoring it? ::: shutting off and closing up, the individual trapped inside fear of the world beyond the safety of the roofs, walls, fences and borders we put up ::: what would happen if everything we trust, depend on and take for granted is suddenly ripped away, leaving us with nothing but fractured memories, each other and the instinct to start again :::

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Stompin collaborated with 25 students from the University of Tasmania School of Architecture to design, make and install an enormous 40 meter long set made entirely out of recycled cardboard.

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When audiences’ arrive for the performance, their initial contact is with the public lounge – a place to wait for their show to commence. Situated in the centre of the lounge is a group of community members having a dinner party - the Home Recipe Group. The Diners interact with audience members, sharing family recipes that are important to them, samples of food and their sense of home. The dinner party is alive throughout the entire performance duration.

Home was first created in Launceston throughout 2006 with its premiere season Nov 24 to Dec 2 at the Roberts Woolstore. In 2007, Luke and Bec will create the project’s next evolution by making a home by touring the extraordinary set design and Launceston dancers to perform a new version of Home with young dancers and community in Melbourne. don’t miss it!

Home presented by Stompin and Arts House at the Meat Market 12 - 16 Sept 2007.

To find secret performance locations - book tickets now! 03 6323 3666

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

the bed needed testing.

check it out, our lovely Luke and Bec have received a 2007 awards nomination by the prestigious Green Room Awards for:

CONCEPT AND REALISATION Luke George and Bec Reid – Home (Stompin)

also congratulations to these fabulous artists who’ve worked with Stompin for their own work:

>>Antony Hamilton for Most Original Choreography The Counting (choreographer on We Don’t Need Another Mural choreographer ‘07)

>>Stephanie Lake for Best Female Dancer Year’s Work (Stompin alumni and choreographer on Joyride ‘02 and Citizen ‘05)

>>Bec Reid for Concept and Realisation 180 Seconds (Stompin alumni, former AD and choreographer of heaps of our shows!)

>>Luke George for best ensemble Brindabella (Stompin alumni, current AD and choreographer of stax of Stompin works!)
yeah yeah yeah! see them on the red carpet!

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

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.

-living room

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.

-kitchen

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.

-kitchen

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!!!

-living room

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!!

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