Stompin

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 Read more »

One of our beloved stompin dancers Riannon Golder has bared all and shaved her head for the Leukemia Foundation.

By being part of the World’s Greatest Shave on the 12th March, Riannon and her crew raised $2 300 for the fight against cancer and we at Stompin think that’s just fantastic.

In total the country rasied over 4.1 million bucks which will go into finding a cure for a cancer that kills 1, 363 people a year, that’s 4 people a day!

Congratulations to Riannon and every one who participated in the event!

Here are some pics showing off the new do.

We have just completed a very successful stage in the development of our project Uncover This. The last four weeks have been filled with adventure, triumph and a whole lot making rocking dance. We had the pleasure of Tyler Hawkins, who was on secondment from the VCA, joining us for a week and helping out with the choreography and all jobs entailed in making a hot new dance work. Here are some photos from his visit

Big thanks goes out to Tyler for all the work he put in. His involvement and contribution has and will make a huge impact on the show.

While Tyler was here we had a working bee to get Liz and James’ house ready for the Test House evening, thanks to those stompers who helped out.

After four great weeks of rehearsing we were ready for our Test House. The day ran smoothly with the help of our Production manager Daniel Zika, and of course Luke, Sarah, Melody and the Stompin dancers. At about 6.30, when we were still completing our dress rehearsal, the guests started to arrive and I suddenly felt like I was going to throw up, much to the amusement of the dancers.

For those of you who were unfortunate enough not to be able to be there. We presented 3 different sections of the work that at the moment we see being in 3 different houses. After each section the audience got to discuss and write down what they had just witnessed and ask me any questions about process, choreography or pretty much what ever they wanted. All the information gathered is being analyzed and will feed into the next process of the this project
We had an amazing evening, the dancers performed beautifully and the feedback we received has proven to be more valuable then we could have imagined. Thank you to all who come and gave so generously. I hope you had a great evening and look forward to seeing you all at the show if not before.

Footage of the Test House can be found on our myspace page. Below is some of the fantastic feedback and pics we got from the night.

“Seemed as though they (the dancers) grew through out the dance as gardens grow over time.”

“Highly expressive with each dancer showing individual reactions.”

“An inspired and creative use of body movement.”

“I laughed wondering about the impact on the world inside the garage when he slammed.”

“I loved the shut doors and not knowing what t expect from each room.”

“You guys have truly captivated the craziness behind a typical Australian home.”

A huge thanks goes out to Liz and James for being part of our Test House and sharing your house with us. Thank you so much!!!
We are still looking for venues for our final production in October so if you would like to be part of an amazing performance experience please contact us.

Adam

Choreographer

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!

It is time to come clean, there is no reason to hold it in any longer.
This confession page is a chance to unleash secrets from deep within.

WE WANT YOUR STORIES THAT SHOULDN’T BE TOLD
to feed ideas and choreography for our newest show - Uncover This

here’s our first confession…

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Hey Stompers,

While I’m here I should put myself to good use so on Mondays I’m going to offer a FREE, yes FREE technique class.

It’ll run 6.30-8pm and we’ll need at least 4 dancers for the class to go ahead so come on down and be part of the action.

More info???

Just call, text or come visit.
Hope to see you there.

Adam x

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

Uncover This Rehearsal Schedule.pdf

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

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.