DANCE
WEEKENDER

Image of Jenni Large by Adam Wheeler

Are you part of a dance group/troupe/class or secret underground dance society waiting for your chance to share your love for busting out moves?

Tasdance, supported by the Strategic Touring Fund and TPAC, is seeking dance lovers from across the state to participate in an afternoon of performing, teaching, and sharing. Each group will perform a short piece and teach their style to the audience, followed by a special presentation by Tasdance. It doesn’t matter how you like to move your body or what your style is; we would love to meet you.

We are looking for dance groups from the North West, North, and South to showcase their passion and talent on some of Tassie’s biggest theatre stages.

If this sounds like you or you want to know more, please email Adam at adam@tasdance.com.au or call 0423903568.

We look forward to dancing with you soon.

BODY BODY COMMODITY

Image of Anna Whitaker + Amber McCartney by Gabriel Comerford

Body Body Commodity

Jenni Large

Body Body Commodity is a visceral, visual, defiant, and explicit demonstration of feminine fury and power.

In Jenni Large and Tasdance’s presentation of Body Body Commodity, five celebrated female dancers manipulate and interpret a mass of pastel foam objects, blurring the lines between object, body, power, and product. The performers balance on the sharp, serrated line between humorous and harrowing, inviting the audience to connect with the confronting demands society and commerce place on women’s bodies.

CREATIVE TEAM

Choreographer/dancer: Jenni Large

Dancer/collaborator: Amber McCartney

Dancer/collaborator: Ashleigh Musk 

Dancer/collaborator: Georgia Rudd

Dancer/collaborator: Erin O’Rourke 

Internship dancer: Ebony Nichols 

Sound designer: Anna Whitaker 

Costume + set designer: Michelle Boyde 

…a contemporary dance work of transformative grace, skilled grotesqueries, and unfiltered physical female power.
Arts Hub

Supported by Arts Tasmania, Strategic Touring Fund, RANT Arts Tasmania Project Fund, Regional Arts Fund (QLD), Dancenorth, Judith Wright Centre, Tasdance + Creative Australia

Venue Partner: Theatre Royal