Dance Nexus
Dance Nexus is an annual combined schools project that DRILL has run since 2015. Each participating school works with a professional choreographer to create their own dance piece around a common theme. The project then culminates when all schools come together for two consecutive days to rehearse and perform their pieces for the public and their peers. Dance Nexus creates an active and fun environment where students can dance, but also includes valuable cross-curriculum learning that links to DoE learning priorities.
In 2023, we are partnering with Montrose Bay High to deliver IRL - In Real Life - Dance Nexus 2023. Our participating primary schools include Glenorchy, Goodwood, Austins Ferry and Windermere in the Glenorchy region of nipaluna/Hobart. Our key creatives this year are DRILL alumni and Circus Studio GM, HK Vermuelen and local independent dance maker and creative artist, Brianna Shahin, alongside our DRILL AD.
The creative team will deliver a performance outcome on November 24 at Montrose Bay High.
Bookings for the performance are limited to people who know a young person in the performance. Bookings are essential and can be made here:
https://events.humanitix.com/dance-nexus
Keep your eyes on the HORIZON for our next exciting project in 2024.
Find more about our previous Dance Nexus programs Here, including photos and video.
Images by Katie Palmer
Dance Nexus 2023 has been supported by Arts Tasmania, by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, the WD Booth Charitable Trust, Montrose Bay High School and the Healthy Tasmania Fund through the Tasmanian Government.
Primary Workshops
DRILL offers contemporary dance workshops for primary students of all ages. Workshops run for 1.5 hours and are delivered by Artistic Director Bec Dundas. Students are led through a playful and engaging workshop that teaches them movement phrases and encourages them to create their own, using contemporary techniques, encouraging the students’ own imaginations and curiosities to be expressed.
Individual workshops can be booked throughout the year at a cost of $190 including GST per workshop.
We also really enjoy hosting home schoolers at our studio at Kick Start Arts, New Town.
For more information and to book, email us at contact@drillperformance.com
Secondary Workshops
DRILL has worked extensively with high school and college dance classes, and offers a range of workshops based on the needs of your class and curriculum. Artistic Director Bec Dundas leads the 2 hour session in contemporary technique, choreographic skills and improvisation. Workshops can be booked as an introduction to dance or as an avenue to assist in preparing college students for exams.
DRILL offers a secondary workshop series in Term 1 each year, linked to our annual Major Season. These workshops introduce students to the themes and choreographic material of the work, tasks that may be used to generate material, and prepares them for engaging with our creative based practice. Through these taster workshops, we encourage them to get involved as a cast member of DRILL.
Individual workshops can also be booked throughout the year at a cost of $220 including GST per workshop.
For more information and to book, email us at contact@drillperformance.com
HK Vermeulen
TEACHING ARTIST + CHOREOGRAPHER
Image by Katie Palmer
HK is a non-binary, Hobart-based dance and performance artist, holding a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania. They performed with youth dance company DRILL periodically since 2007 and in 2018 they began leading the company’s work in schools. They co-choreographed works for DRILL’s Junior Company in 2018 and 2020, and have delivered a number of DRILL’s Dance Nexus Programs in schools including Dance Nexus Glenorchy (2022), Dance Nexus Clarence (2021), Dance Nexus Clarence (2020) and Dance Nexus West Coast (2020). They have also choreographed and delivered Mona's 24 Carrot Carnival in 2019 and 2020 in association with DRILL.
They own their own company Haus of Trash, performing across Tasmania and running workshops for others to discover and express their own individuality. They have also performed at various events including, Ten Days on the Island, Dark Mofo, MONA FOMA, the Taste of Tasmania, Falls Festival Marion Bay and Splendour in the Grass. They are keenly interested in the weird and wonderful, and love finding joyful moments in art.