The Board of DRILL Performance Inc is delighted to announce the appointment of Bec Dundas as our next Artistic Director. 🔥✨🧡
Bec impressed the national selection panel with her capacity to step into and build the DRILL AD role. She has a deep understanding of what this role entails and a genuine interest in championing youth voice. Her experience is broad, covering choreography, performance, marketing, producing, working with large groups and working with young people in and out of school settings.
Bec is currently working as acting Artistic Director for Stompin, and Associate Producer at Tasdance. She is a passionate and accomplished leader who will confidently build relationships in the south of lutruwita/Tasmania whilst maintaining her strong connections across the state and beyond. We look forward to welcoming Bec and her family when they relocate to nipaluna/Hobart.
Bec will begin the role at the start of May following handover time with Isabella Stone in the months prior.
A message from Bec about starting her role here:
'I am thrilled to be stepping into this role and embarking on a new chapter in nipaluna/Hobart working with an ensemble of wonderful young people. I am incredibly passionate about youth dance culture and its impact on developing young adults and feel that this is the perfect time in my career to positively contribute to that landscape.
This appointment is one that I feel truly privileged to accept and look forward to continuing to provide meaningful dance experiences and creative opportunities at DRILL. '
What amazing things we have to look forward in sharing with Bec!
More about Bec Dundas -
Bec Dundas is a performer, producer, director & educator living in lutruwita, Tasmania.
Bec studied at Adelaide College of the Arts, completing a Bachelor Dance Performance Degree in 2009.
As a dancer, Bec has performed with Australian companies Leigh Warren and Dancers, Opera Australia and Tasdance and performed in works by Prue Lang, Frances Rings, Graeme Murphy, Jukstapoz, Liesel Zink, Gabrielle Nankivell and Stephanie Lake.
Through company work, Bec has been fortunate to tour to international festivals including The Holland Dance Festival, The Oz Asia Festival, Edinburgh Festival & national festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane & Adelaide, broadening Bec’s experience of arts landscapes in unique places.
Bec has a deep curiosity for cross-pollinating movement forms and engaging with hybrid artists from multiple movement disciplines.
In 2018 Bec began a creative exchange with Finnish artist, Anna-Maria Vaisanen - with visits to and from Tasmania & Finland - resulting in their work premiering at Paikallisliike Festivaali in Kuopio (supported by ITAK) & Lonely in the Rain Festival in Joensuu (supported by Salamanca Arts/Arts Tasmania).
Passionate for dance in education, Bec thrives in youth dance contexts. Lecturing in some of Australia’s most highly regarded institutions, including Adelaide College of the Arts, The VCA, WAAPA (LINK) & Brent Street Studios, Bec has had numerous choreographic opportunities and enjoyed nurturing emerging dance artists.
Through working across marketing in both the arts and tourism industries, Bec has evolved into an artist with a diverse skill set that spans across the spectrum of performing, directing & producing. Working with Junction Arts Festival, Assembly 197 and independently, Bec has co-produced shows for outdoor theatre & in festival environments. This pathway has led Bec to her current position as Associate Producer at Assembly 197 & as owner/operator of her consultancy business, Little Local.
Currently, Bec is the Acting Artistic Director for Stompin Youth Dance & will deliver their major show in March 2023 for Ten Days on the Island Festival.
Bec continues to work in lutruwita, land of the palawa people & acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.
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