ARTERY

ARTERY believes everyone should be able to experience art-making by delivering bespoke programs designed to reach every corner of Tasmania.

ARTERY is more than a dance education program. Alongside exploring the making and performing of dance, students are given the opportunity to develop self-belief, confidence, creative expression, and potential pathways to an exciting career in the arts.

Either at our home at ASSEMBLY 197 or in schools, each tailor-made program will share insight into the practice of dance while empowering young people through healthy approaches to movement.

LITTLE GEM

Tasdance spent seven weeks at St Thomas More's Catholic School working with 170 Kinder to Grade 2 students to create Little Gem. A dance and multimedia work exploring Gratitude, Empathy, and Mindfulness. Little Gem's creative process was based on the Can Dance Programs that run in Alice Springs and Launceston in partnership with GUTS Dance.
Created and led by Adam Wheeler and Sarah Groth
Film edited by Adam Wheeler
Sound credit: Everything Now, Arcade Fire

LAUNNIE CAN DANCE 2023

In its inaugural year, 150 incredible young dancers from across Launceston’s northern suburbs have come together with Tasdance and their team of collaborators from the island and beyond to bring you LAUNNIE CAN DANCE. This year’s theme is FUTURE. A deep dive questioning when, where, and what our future holds, this year’s project illuminates through dance and screen how the young people of this place feel about our collective potential futures. From personal destinies to the fate of the planet, from time travel to cyber cities, and with moments of apocalypse leading to regeneration, LAUNNIE CAN DANCE is an evening full of hope and joy - reminding us of our power to shape the future… from now, and now, and now, and beyond.

CREATIVE TEAM:

Gabriel Comerford, Ashleigh Musk, HK Vermeulen, Adam Wheeler

ARTERY COORDINATOR:

Tanya Lanham

PRODUCER:

Emma Porteus

GUTS DANCE:

Madeleine Krenek, Frankie Snowdon

DANCE WORKS 4 SCHOOLS

TROLLS is a dance-in education project that aims to give school students awareness and skills in relation to cyberbullying. One in four Australian children aged eight to 15 has experienced cyberbullying. Just as shocking is the fact that three-quarters of all Australian schools reported cyberbullying last year.

Tasdance has developed a high-impact dance theatre work that involves school students in fun, participation-based activities that examine the consequences of our actions online. The work uses cause-and-effect choreographic devices to demonstrate that every word we type online has an effect on whoever it is directed at. Equipped with a large-screen portable television and computer on a stand, TROLLS can be presented in any gym, hall, multipurpose space or theatre.

WANT MORE?

Tasdance is dedicated to offering exciting and new ways to connect to schools across Tasmania. We can offer anything from once off workshops looking at Contemporary dance, choreography and/or improvisation to week long residencies in your school where we expose your entire school to the joys of dance.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Tasdance at adam@tasdance.com.au