Luminous Flux - Launceston

Presented by Tasdance in association with Ten Days On The Island.

Two of Australia’s exceptional choreographers transform light into physical movement that is playful, vivid and highly original in a double-bill performed by Tasdance, Tasmania’s passionate, committed and daring dance company.

The revelatory and beautiful creation of Tanja Liedtke, Graeme Murphy’s selected successor at Sydney Dance Company, explores the paradoxes that exist within life’s rituals; the light, the dark, the virtuous, the evil.

The second piece by Byron Perry, a bright figure in national contemporary dance, interprets light through mystical, frivolous and pure physicality. Perry’s choreography for the Tasdance ensemble is a theatrical look at the magical, lively and entertaining interpretations of light. A dancer of great talent and experience, Perry is now one of Australia’s most dynamic choreographers.

From its beginnings as Australia’s first dance-in-education company in 1981, Tasdance has grown in stature and has earned a national reputation for the strength, diversity, innovation and accessibility of its Australian contemporary repertoire.