Hiero Public Showings & Community Workshop

HIERO

Let's dance.

AN INTERGENERATIONAL DANCE EXPERIENCE

Hiero is an intergenerational dance experience presented by a cast of 20 dancers aged 13-76, spanning four generations. The public can access Hiero via a community workshop, live digital streaming and public showings.

Created and produced by Great Southern Dance, Hiero sees GSD collaborate with 12 performers from Mature Artists Dance Experience and 4 youth dance interns. These dancers at different life stages will perform together, deeply curious about respective roles, rights, responsibilities and lived experience. 

Meaning ‘sacred’, the Greek word hiero (think 'hieroglyphics' for pronunciation) is used here to name the way performance will be used as a lens, offering those present glimpses of intergenerational connections we deeply respect and hold dear to us.

HOBART CITY HALL RESIDENCY, JULY 1-7 2024

Between July 1-7, 2024 Hiero will take place with GSD in-residence at City Hall in the heart of Hobart. 

This residency explores what a ‘secular ritual’ might be, aiming to simultaneously develop community and artistry. It also provides opportunities for artists of non-professional and professional standing to create and perform together, these are rare. 

Great Southern Dance hopes that our audiences and workshop participants will also come from many different generations and diverse cultural backgrounds. 

RESIDENCY OPEN DAY, JULY 6 2024 

On Day 6 of the residency (July 6) we throw open our doors for workshopping and performing. We want to share our creativity and to know how participants and audience members respond. These activities are designed to be ACCESSIBLE and can be attended entirely seated. (Yes, even the dance workshop!) 

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

12-1pm Saturday July 6, 2023 at Hobart City Hall

2 PUBLIC SHOWINGS

2-3pm Saturday July 6, 2023 at Hobart City Hall  (Please arrive 15 minutes prior, City Hall front entrance)

4-5pm Saturday July 6, 2023 at Hobart City Hall  (Please arrive 15 minutes prior, City Hall front entrance)

When you purchase a ticket, this entitles you to attend the Community Workshop and/or one of the Public Showings

Join us for a truly unique exploration of community and connection....

ABOUT GREAT SOUTHERN DANCE

https://greatsoutherndance.com...

'Contemporary dance-led interdisciplinary professional practice fed by diverse community connections is our thing'

Great Southern Dance is an agile, project-based Australian professional contemporary dance company based in the south of lutriwita/Tasmania. 

We are interdisciplinary: Dance leads the way with architecture, design, light, sound, imagery, and narrative being integral to what we make. The dance of GSD is always combined with site, landscape and story. 

In our projects, full-bodied response-to-site is to our island’s natural and built environs. We create new events for our community’s life-in-common. We're a culturally diverse team of creatives collaborating to understand what being here, together, now looks and feels like.

Hiero original artwork commissioned from Joanna Brown