CLASSES ARE BACK!

We can't wait to kick off term 2 at Stompin

Primary Stompin classes start back Tuesday 30 April at the Assembly197 studio

This term will run for 11 weeks, 30 April - 2 July.

Classes will remain on Tuesdays, 5:15-6:15pm

Our studio is located within Assembly197 - 197 Wellington Street, Launceston

This term we will focus on connection (in our body, mind and within the group) and creative tasks.

Class costs:

Single class

$15.00

Full Term

$130.00

(payment plans and sibling discounts available)

Stompin is now a registered Ticket to Play Activity Provider.

https://www.tickettoplay.tas.gov.au/

Please transfer to the Stompin account

Stompin Bank Details

Account name: Stompin Inc

BSB: 037 608

Account Number: 567 696

Reference: Primary Stompin class + your last name

Major Show Intensive

We welcomed 5 Guest Artists into our space in April to support the development of our 2024 Major Work

Ground Beneath Ocean Between

At Junction Arts Festival this September


Over the school holidays the Stompers have been deep in creative process, learning and exploring movement, projection, film and sound with our inspiring Collaborators!

We are working with a whole team of people to bring this crazy big project together so we thought we would introduce some of them to you now.



Liesel and Ebony

  • Liesel Zink

    Guest Choreographer

    Liesel Zink is an award-winning choreographer of Ukrainian and German descent interested in collective bodies as a tool for social change. She has developed and presented work around Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe. Liesel’s practice explores the intersection of contemporary dance and community engagement often seeing her create performances in public-space and use her creative process as a means for artistic, cultural and intergenerational exchange. Liesel was awarded the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance for project The Stance (presented 10 cities world-wide between 2015-2019). Other Independent projects include Us And All Of This 2023 (Arts Centre Melbourne, Geelong Arts Centre and Bunjil Place), The Future Is… (Museum of Brisbane 2023), Daruvaty (Bleach Festival 2022), Our New (IMA Gallery 2020) and We and the Uncertain (Ukraine 2019). Liesel is currently an Associate Artist for Force Majeure, a board member of Theatre Network Australia and more broadly, a dramaturge, facilitator and producer.

  • Ebony Nichols

    Guest Choreographer and Stomper Mentor

    Ebony Nichols is a graduate of a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (2021), majoring in contemporary dance at Unitec Institute of Technology, in Aotearoa. Ebony is a queer dance artist living and working throughout so-called Australia, who has experience in the realms of dance-making, performance, leadership, site-specific performance and youth dance. Based in Naarm, Ebony is an alumni of Stompin Youth Dance Company, having performed with the company from 2016 - 2019. Through her involvement with Stompin she has worked with and been mentored by national artists such as Caitlin Comerford, Alisdair Macindoe, Alice Lee Holland, Liesel Zink, James Batchelor, Lucas Sitbbard, Jenni Large, Gabriel Comerford, Joshua Thomson, Adam Wheeler and Bec Reid.

    In 2022 she choreographed a new work, 'The Ball Is In Your Court', for the Stompin triple-bill 4site, which was performed as part of Junction Arts Festival. In April 2022 she was Rehearsal Director for the performance season of Stompin's HQ, and was also a cast member. In 2022 she was offered an internship through Stompin to take part in the development of

    Jenni Large's 'Body Body Commodity', and completed another creative development in February 2023 as an understudy for the work in Mona Foma Festival.

OLD NEWS BUT GOOD NEWS

OLD NEWS BUT GOOD NEWS

Primary Stompin Project

Grow Your Own Way

The Primary Stompers invite you to join them in the Community Garden at the University of Tasmania to watch them dig deep and grow tall. Come witness the performance result of planting movement ideas in fruitful young minds and bodies.

The Details:

Sat 25th Nov 2023, 

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm AEDT

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm AEDT

UTAS Inveresk Community Garden - 2 Invermay Rd, Invermay TAS 7248, Australia

STARRING

Alba Colledge, Amelia Glover, Clara Farquhar Still, Clementine Pratley-Hunt, Edith Bishop, Elena Addison Hall, Evie Young, Gabe Broomhall, Harriet Carswell, Hattie Doig, Ida Shapiro, Josie Adams, Kato Middleton, Libby Davis, Lily Hansen, Lucy Hansen, Macey Badcock, Mae Rose Sulzberger, Marley Dowde, Marley Sloane, Pixie Eastman, Rafe Addison-Hall, Sari Dixon, Sunny Sloane, Sylvie Dowde, Theo Loone and Winnie Chapman

Choreographer - Rikki Mace

Artistic Director - Caitlin Comerford

General Manager - Rachel Moore

About Primary Stompin

Primary Stompin is an inclusive dance creation and performance project for upper primary school students. Primary Stompin is a way to introduce the values and aesthetics of Stompin to 8 to 13 year olds: a simple, fun process with a social conscience and a celebratory outcome.

THANK YOU - Stompin would like to thank City of Launceston for their support of this project as well as Assembly197. Big thanks to Cat Kerr for the logo and T-Shirt designs, to Jeff McClintock for help in the garden and Kelsey Rosevears for her help spreading the word. Finally to the families of our Primary Stompers - thank you for supporting Stompin and creative young Tasmanian’s.

For more information please contact us:

AD - Caitlin Comerford: caitlin@stompin.net 

GM - Rachel Moore: rachel@stompin.net

Recipe for Rebellion

At Junction Arts Festival this September

Stompin Youth Choreographic Project 2023

RECIPE FOR REBELLION

At Junction Arts Festival this September

The Stompers have concocted their very own Tassie taste trail. Stomp around with us to our favourite local cafes and collect all the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for rebellion. The Stompin Youth Choreographic Project (SYCP) enables creative young Tasmanians to make and present a collection of self-devised, site-specific dance performances through a choreographic mentorship. In 2023, internationally recognised dance artist Courtney Scheu (based across Israel and Queensland), came to lutruwita/Tasmania, mentoring the Stompers and guiding the creation of Recipe for Rebellion.

Auslan interpreted showing Saturday only.

The Stompin Youth Choreographic Project (SYCP) enables creative young Tasmanians to make and present a collection of self-devised, site-specific dance performances through a choreographic mentorship. 

  • More about Stompin

    Stompin is a vital force in Australian youth dance, leading the sector with its ambitious site-specific practice, innovative programs and empowering approach to the engagement and development of young dance artists

  • More about Courtney 

    Courtney (she/her) is an independent dance artist. As a co-artistic director of new OUTBOUND | Contemporary Dance x Live Art Festival on Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi Country (Sunshine Coast). Scheu is a Certified Gaga Teacher, Gaga: Ohad Naharin’s Movement language, training supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.

  • More about Junction Arts Festival

    Junction is an annual Festival of extraordinary arts experiences in unusual spaces throughout Launceston, held in September.

Each year Stompin designs a major show around themes and issues that are important to our young people. A professional dance production is created, that is youth focussed and allows our dancers to engage in their own way with every aspect of the shows creation.

Multi Story is a show re-told in our own language – leaning into humour, politics and poetics the intimacy of genuine connectedness and the comedy of communication that misses a beat.

Multi Story invites audiences to explore the three floors of the Launceston Library, discovering new ways to connect to storytelling, experiencing intimate tales in small clusters, as well as witnessing site specific dance at its best.

Come for an intimate journey with young Tasmanian dancers, exploring body language, spoken and unspoken communication, language construction and destruction.

This work has been developed with the artistic support of Choreographer Kyall Shanks and additional guest artists Theresa Sainty, Aboriginal Linguistic Consultant for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Anna Seymour, a bilingual (Auslan/English) and proud Deaf woman with passion for her community, culture and language; and Yyan Ng, a multilingual musician living in Launceston.

In usual Stompin style the audience will be asked to sit, stand and move through the site – so leave the stilettos at home! This show is fully accessible; there will also be sensory friendly performances offered.

WHEN

8 MAR WED 7:30 PM

9 MAR THU 7:30 PM

10 MAR FRI 7:30 PM

11 MAR SAT 7:00 PM

12 MAR SUN 2:00 PM

12 MAR SUN 7:30 PM

WHERE

LAUNCESTON LIBRARYLaunceston

TICKETS

FULL PRICE: $25
CONCESSION: $20
FAMILY OF FOUR: $80

Transaction fees apply

DURATION

60 MINS

Performed and Created by Young Tasmanian Dancers
Choreographer –Kyall Shanks
Artistic Director – Bec Jones
Producer – Rachel Moore
Guest Artists – Denne, Anna Seymour and Yyan Ng

Image Credit: Bruce Moyle, Joffre Street Productions

Stompin is a vital force in Australian youth dance, leading the sector with its ambitious site-specific practice, innovative programs and empowering approach to the engagement and development of young dance artists.