Great Southern Dance Tasmania

No rest for the wicked—we're seeking people to project manage Dark M**o 2025.

Apply within. https://darkmo.fo/wwu
📷 Jesse Hunniford

STORIES OF EARTH: ECHOES IN ARCHITECTURE

It all happens tomorrow.
Smoking ceremony 8am.

Thank you to those who have got us here:











To those who have flown in: welcome! Kia Ora!

To those who have helped for months: we see you.

To those who have shaped the big launch (), thank you.

Slinging cheap booze 5 days a week. The new Altar Bar opens September 20.

We're updating our rolodex for 2025. Are you a bartender, scenic painter, stunt coordinator, technician, metal worker, clown or someone else we should probably know?

Share your details: https://darkmo.fo/work-with-us

📷 Florentina Holzinger's A Divine Comedy, Tyr Liang, 2023.

From Venice to Tasmania: a design collaboration shifting thinking Australia’s representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale returns home to Tasmania, for its Australian debut.

Unsettling Queenstown
3 August - 8 September 2024

https://unsettlingqueenstown.org/

Design Tasmania is proud to present Unsettling Queenstown - architecture for recovering country, the Australian representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Haunted by a large-scale copper replica of the belvedere of Queenstown’s Empire Hotel, this show immerses audiences in the dark magnetism of Tasmania’s history and landscapes, opening unsettling perspectives on decolonising architectures and alternative futures.

Our first public program for the exhibition included a panel discussion with Unsettling Queenstown's Creative Directors who shared the ideas behind the making of the Biennale exhibition. We also hosted First Nations arts and cultural leaders discussing issues relating to cultural renewal and colonialism. We thank Aunty Theresa Sainty, Julie Gough and Ali Gumillya Baker (facilitator), and the Creative Directors for sharing their time and thoughts.

Our second public program event here at Design Tasmania (hosted by the Australian Institute of Architects - Tasmania Chapter) will be on Saturday 31 August 11am - 12.30pm. The speakers will talk about how they consider Country and First Nations perspectives when designing.

Speakers include Ashley Halliday (Ashley Halliday Architects), Paul Wakelam (Paul Wakelam Architect) and Felicity Bott (Great Southern Dance), with more to be confirmed.

We'd love for you to join us. Entrance is free.

Our Tactic Work with Paul Wakelam Architect as a part of 2023 Venice Bienalle Showing now at Design Centre in Launceston with talks at the nd of the month. Go to our web site https://greatsoutherndance.com.au/ and check out our two tactics Site Geist I and II, “KEEP LISTENING UNTIL YOU FIND THE BEAUTY”(films), and “[…+THE BUILDINGS THEY ARE SLEEPING NOW]” (mappings to dance). The tactics attempt to start conversations around de-colonisation in Tasmanian topography.

Our wonderful Art House up for Sale.

49 Toodyay Street, Toodyay WA 6566 - House For Sale The Art House: Architecture Inspired by Nature - 49 Toodyay Street, Toodyay WA 6566 - House For Sale

The Toodyay Art House is for sale. The end of our special time with this place on the Avon River, Toodyay, is the start of new times for this unique property. It will go onto the market by the end of this week. If you or you know that special person (s) that would like to occupy this special one of a kind house that is in balance with the beautiful Toodyay surrounds then please text me on number below and we will pass on your details to our selling agent.

If you still haven't experience this unique dwelling then it will be available on short term rental until late December.

Don't hesitate we would love this place to go to an appreciative buyer. look forward to your interest!.

Paul & Felicity

Photography - Luke Carter Wilton

🚨 Calling all Creative Producers, Production Managers, Stage Managers, ASMs, and Production Crew! 🚨

Second Echo Ensemble is on the hunt for passionate and talented production staff to join our team for our exciting 20th Anniversary Season in 2025! 🎉

Our upcoming season includes:
🎭 Relache, The Last Dance On Earth @ the Odeon Theatre, Feb 2025
🎨 III @ the Plimsoll Gallery, July 2025
🌟 The Adventures of Peacock, Chicken and the Pony they Rode Upon @ the Theatre Royal, Oct 2025 and touring to Sydney.

This is an incredible opportunity to work with a dynamic team and be a part of groundbreaking performances. If you're ready to bring your skills and creativity to our milestone season, we want to hear from you!

📧 For more details and to apply, email your resume to:
[email protected]

Join us in making our 20th anniversary unforgettable!

Mike’s exhibition is now open!

Here’s one section featuring 72 experimental inkjet poster prints on paper. Together, they present a snapshot of life at the end of the 1980s with social, political and historical references relating to LGBTIQA+ rights and issues in Tasmania and beyond. And plenty of colourful pop culture, which provided a necessary escape from the fear, shame and struggles of being a q***r kid in Tassie at a time when it was being gay was yet to be decriminalised and the HIV/AIDS epidemic was causing a climate of hatred and division. It’s a deeply personal story, including some difficult topics but also one which celebrates youthful nostalgia, q***r excellence and survival against the odds.

Check it out if you get the chance!

Brady Michaels
MY POP LIFE
3 August - 27 October
233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
Open 11am-5pm Wed-Sat / 1pm-5pm Sun
OPENING EVENT Sat 10 August 2-4pm

📢 Calling local artists!

🎨 We have an exciting opportunity for three artists to collaborate with our Ability to Create artists and organisations to develop infrastructure and artworks for the 2025 exhibition, "InvisAbility: Making the Invisible Visible."

We are seeking artists with expertise in:
💡Lighting, sound, or digital design
🖼️ Visual arts
🎭 Performance (including dance, music, text, theatre, storytelling, or performance art)

Artists with skills in a combination of these areas are also welcome to apply.

For more details, including the Project Brief and expression of interest form, visit: https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Creative-Hobart/Creative-Hobart-programs/Ability-to-Create

Arts Tasmania

[Image of Ability to Create 2025 promotion tile.]

In Memory.

Bill Viola, Inverted Birth, 2014, video/sound installation, colour high-definition video projection on screen mounted vertically and anchored to floor in dark room; stereo sound with subwoofer, projected image size: 500 × 281cm, 8:22 minutes. Performer: Norman Scott. Courtesy the artist and Dark M**o, Tasmania

We’re in residence next week in nipaluna/Hobart City Hall to create intergenerational dance with a cast of 20 dancers spanning four generations, aged 13-76!!

Conceived and produced by Great Southern Dance, 'Hiero' combines a professional dance company with an ensemble of 12 mature artists from Mature Artists Dance Experience, with and four invited youth dance interns who hail from vibrant dancer-incubator DRILL Performance.

On Day 6 of the residency, we will throw open the City Hall doors to the community for a workshop and public showings. Join us for a truly unique exploration of community and connection! Bookings here:
https://events.humanitix.com/hiero-community-workshop-and-public-showing

Find out more about 'Hiero' and our exceptional artistic team here:
https://greatsoutherndance.com.au/

'Hiero' is supported by City of Hobart, RANT arts (Regional Arts Fund), Arts Tasmania, and Creative Australia. Hospitality sponsor Shamrock Hotel.

Image credit: ‘Hiero’ original artwork commissioned from Joanna Brown of Laeline Design Studio

Image description: Detail of a vividly coloured artist’s interpretation of the human nervous system with the title ‘Intergenerational Dance Experience, HIERO’.

Yesterday was another great day in Great Southern Dance's in residency in City Hall with the legends of Mature Artists Dance Experience and our fabulous youth interns who dance with DRILL performance.

Tickets for Hiero are selling quickly so to ensure you can join us please book : https://events.humanitix.com/hiero-community-workshop-and-public-showing

This week our professional dancers have taught for both DRILL and MADE whilst being in town. THANK YOU Alya, Rob, Gabby AND also Risa who is a regular teacher for MADE every week.

'Hiero' and Great Southern Dance is proud to be supported by@City of Hobart, RANT arts (Regional Arts Fund), Arts Tasmania Creative Australia, and Shamrock Hotel is our hospitality sponsor.

Image credits: Various

Image description: a series of images of dancers and costume makers working within the interior of a large ballroom-style venue with white dance flooring that serves as a canvas for an elaborate floor design.

We are at full tilt this week in nipaluna/Hobart City Hall creating intergenerational dance with Mature Artists Dance Experience for the first time with a cast of 20, a production team of 8 and much-appreciated volunteer group. We’ll be sharing this with audiences and workshop participants on Saturday. To join us, book here:

https://greatsoutherndance.com.au/

Seasoned installation designer Paul Wakelam Architect, perfectionist costume designer Margaret Perversi and production extraordinaire Brendon Veronese have been weaving their magic all week alongside our rehearsal processes.

What a ride!

'Hiero' is supported by City of Hobart, RANT arts (Regional Arts Fund), Arts Tasmania, Creative Australia Hospitality sponsor Shamrock Hotel

Image credits: Various

Image description: a series of images of dancers and costume makers working within the interior of a large ballroom-style venue with white dance flooring that serves as a canvas for an elaborate floor design.