Great Southern Dance
‘Dancing the Rivulet’ | nipaluna
Rivulet Residency: A Site-Responsive Dance Performance & Film Project
April 12-18 2001
Tasmania’s newest professional dance company will ‘dance’ the nipaluna/Hobart Rivulet across 7 days starting at Cascades Gardens and ending in Hobart City Hall. Entitled Rivulet Residency, this is a Site-Responsive Dance Performance & Film Project taking place at key sites along the rivulet April 12-18, 2021.
Great Southern Dance is an agile, project-based professional contemporary dance association incorporated in 2019. Our inaugural cross-art form professional artists’ residency for the City of Hobart is a project with cultural depth, underpinned by history, driven by fusion of landscape, cityscape and the creativity of a team of 7 professional artists and 2 production technicians. The project is funded principally by a Creative Hobart Grant from the City of Hobart and supported through a dynamic partnership with Port Arthur Historic Sites.
The Hobart/nipaluna Rivulet is a vital part of Hobart’s history from times well before colonisation and for two centuries since. The artistic team – including a Tasmanian Aboriginal Custodian and Dance Artist – will respond to and interpret traces of the history of human engagement with the river in ways that are both excursive (animating/activating key Rivulet sites) and immersive (in situ in City Hall). The community can engage with what we do in several different ways throughout the week.
Working out from a film, sound and design installation-base in City Hall, the company will start the week in South Hobart at Cascade Gardens with acknowledgement to country. We then film at several South Hobart rivulet sites before traversing, above-ground, the pathway of the nipaluna/Hobart Rivulet below the city via an artists’ procession through the CBD on Wednesday afternoon. We are then based Thursday to Saturday at City Hall, focusing interpretatively on what we have gathered and open each day at set times for the community to visit and view our creative activities (please find details below).
Notably, at 3pm on Saturday April 17 Great Southern Dance will host a forum in which the core threads of practice of international, national and local artists, architects and designers are teased into new conversations about art as social intervention – with particular focus on meaningful connections between art, topography and community. Contributors from Boston, Auckland, Athens, Adelaide and Hobart will gather digitally and in person for this event.
Please find below a list of the times, dates and locations of our community access to this week-long acknowledgement of the nipaluna/Hobart Rivulet’s place in history and in our lives today.
Come and see how we roll as we acknowledge creatively the life-thread that courses through our beautiful city
About Great Southern Dance
Great Southern Dance is an agile Tasmania-based Australian professional contemporary dance association presenting dance performance in new ways for new times. We integrate professional contemporary choreography with architecture and landscape in ways that invigorate shared meaningfulness of sites. We do this by collaborating effectively with community partners to bolster the cultural relevance and social reach of the art we make. We like to build community connection into the very foundations of the work. One way we facilitate community access to professional arts practice is by making accessible film content for broadcast as well as live performance. Our artistic team is well versed in large scale performance installations incorporating choreography, film, design, music and light.
Partnership with Port Arthur Historic Sites facilitates access to Cascades Female Factory
Great Southern Dance has a partnership with Port Arthur Historic Sites to realise shared and respective cultural values of both entities via site-interpretive dance and film activities. Consequently, on Tuesday April 13 we have access to the Cascades Female Factory to film and will offer community and visitor opportunities to view and be part of our filming of site-responsive dance.
Sponsorship & Support
Great Southern Dance is very grateful to the four local businesses have provided in-kind sponsorship for graphic design, project consulting and hospitality, and cash-sponsorship for promotion and printing:
Shamrock Hotel, Liverpool Street Hobart
Straight Up Café, Liverpool Street Hobart
A Workshop, Murray Street Hobart
dancewillsavetheworld, Murray Street Hobart
Deep Room, Murray Street Hobart
Great Southern Dance is an agile, project-based professional contemporary dance association incorporated in 2019. Our inaugural cross-art form professional artists’ residency for the City of Hobart is a project with cultural depth, underpinned by history, driven by fusion of landscape, cityscape and the creativity of a team of 7 professional artists and 2 production technicians. The project is funded principally by a Creative Hobart Grant from the City of Hobart and supported through a dynamic partnership with Port Arthur Historic Sites.
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Rivulet Residency Community Engagement April 13-18, 2021
| Day & Date | Activity | Time | Location | Cost |
| Tuesday April 13 (Week 2 School Holidays) | Dance Filmmaking Viewing – Community/Visitor Viewing of Activities at Cascades Female Factory | 10 – 1pm | Cascades Female Factory Yard 1 | Free |
| Wednesday April 14 | Inner CBD Artist Procession – tracing above-ground the underground Rivulet pathway through the heart of the Hobart CBD | 3 – 4pm | Harrington Street to City Hall | Free |
| Thursday April 15 Friday April 16 & Saturday April 17 | ‘Groove Contemporary’ Company Class – Youth and Adult experienced contemporary dancers invited to take dance class with professional company members for three consecutive mornings. Registration essential with Felicity Bott: 0411 953 162 or [email protected] | 9:30 – 10:30am | City Hall | $15 per class Or $35 for 3 |
| Thursday April 15 & Friday April 16 | Rivulet Installation Access – Community members (children, youth, adults) are invited to visit and view professional dance company creative performance, design & production process. (Covid-Safe Activity) | 2:30 – 5:30 | City Hall | Free |
| Saturday April 17 | Rivulet Installation Access – Community members (children, youth, adults) are invited to visit and view professional dance company creative performance, design & production process. (Covid-Safe Activity) | 1:30 – 3pm | City Hall | Free |
| Saturday April 17 | Blended State – A forum in which the core threads of practice of international, national and local artists, architects and designers are teased into new conversations about art as social intervention. (Covid-Safe Activity) | 3-4:30pm | City Hall | Free |
