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Babel is a mind-blowing work that highlights the oneness of diversity using language as its medium. Tasmanians with a first language other than English bring their distinctive words, intonations and tones together to create a sound installation of choreographed language.

From Afrikaans, to Arabic, German, Japanese and Hindi to Hungarian, Spanish and Vietnamese, these languages play, dip, dance, pause and dance again. They are presented on a long abandoned floor of a well-known Hobart office building where audiences can wander through at their leisure.

Creator Glen Murray, composer Heath Brown and lighting designer Jason James present an aural experience like no other.

HOBART COUNCIL CENTRE (ENTRY FROM DAVEY ST)
FRI 24 MARCH, 6pm - 11pm
SAT 25 MARCH, 5pm - 10pm
TICKETS: $25/20

Audiences can come and go anytime until 30mins before closing time.

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Launceston is where you will find a world of dance

Launceston is centre stage for a program of dance as three of Tasmanian's leading companies present three very unique works as part of Ten Days on the Island.

Stompin's FULLY GROWN

Fully Grown invites audiences into a cosmos created in Launceston’s John Hart Conservatory in City Park where dance and multimedia tell the story of evolution from the big bang to present day and beyond.

In our world there are stargazers, adventurers, philosophers and inventors. There are trees, plants, planets and earth. There are complexities beyond what we can possibly imagine.

Celebrating 25 years of Stompin, performers both past and present will captivate their audience and take them in search of the things that connect us all.

JOHN HART CONSERVATORY, CITY PARK
WED 22 - SUN 26 MARCH, 7.30PM
TICKETS: $30/$25

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Tasdance's Fragile Matter

Created by internationally acclaimed Greek dance company Jukstapoz and inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s epic film The Great Dictator, Fragile Matter uses dance, theatre, storytelling and puppetry to create a unique dance-theatre experience.

This entertaining, high energy performance has been around the world, finding a political and social relevance wherever it goes. Audiences will be stirred by the poignant significance to current political and social events, and moved by the humanness brought to the characters.

Using the body as metaphor for war and unity, eight embattled dancers rally, resist and break out in a work that is both fiercely physical and intimate, with a sound score to match.

PRINCESS THEATRE
FRI 24 MARCH, 1PM & 7.30PM
TICKETS: $45/$35

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Graeme Murphy's The Frock

In a unique meeting of the traditional and the technological, two of Australia’s foremost dance creatives, Graeme Murphy AO and Janet Vernon AM collaborate with Tasmania’s Mature Artist Dance Experience (MADE) to bring to the stage a dance theatre work like no other.

Spoken word, song, soundscape, installation, costume and machine are used to create an innovative theatrical experience that embroiders together a tale inspired by photographs from ensemble members in their “best dress”. The Frock is a patchwork of personal recollection and aspiration that expands on ideas of how Australians lived, have loved, why they dance and what makes their hearts sing.

“The Frock is neither a dress nor a gown, it is an entity and like other invaders from the ‘mainland’ this frock held unknown consequences – even months in the ‘quarantine of layby’ could not reduce its feral potency.” – Graeme Murphy AO

EARL ARTS CENTRE
FRI 24 MARCH, 7.30PM
SAT 25 MARCH, 4PM & 7.30PM
TICKETS: $45/$35

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YOUR FESTIVAL FOR THE REST OF THIS WEEK

Ten Days on the Island will fill your March with theatre, music, comedy, dance and so much more!

Here's what's coming up:

SPIEGELTENT HOBART:

THEATRE:

E -BABY | Tasmanian Theatre Company
The Patrick Street Theatre | Wed 22 - Fri 31 March, 8.15 and Sat 1 April, 2.15pm & 8.15pm

THE GOD THAT COMES | Hawksley Workman
The Playhouse Theatre | Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 8pm

WHITE SNAKE | Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Theatre Royal, Hobart | Fri 24 & Sat 25 march, 7.30pm

FRIDA & DEREK | Blue Cow Theatre Inc.
Claremont House, Claremont | Wed 22 & Thu 23 March, 7pm
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart | Tue 28 March - Sat 1 April, 7pm

YOU AND ME AND THE SPACE BETWEEN | Terrapin Puppet Theatre
Peacock Theatre, Hobart | Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 6pm and Sun 26 March, 2pm

FESTIVAL EXTRA:

THE ART OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Lecture Theatre, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Launceston | Wed 22 March, 5.30pm
Makers’ Space, Burnie, Thu 23 March, 5.30pm

UBER COMEDY
Earl Arts Centre, Launceston | Wed 22 March, 8.30pm

#COMEDYCONCENTRATE
State Cinema, Hobart | Thu 23 March, 6pm (SOLD OUT)

EXPOSING EDITH
Earl Arts Centre, Launceston | Thu 23 March, 7.30pm

TMAG FAMILY DAY: LIVING CULTURE
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart | Sun 26 March, 11am - 3pm

RAW2! YOUNG TALENT ON STAGE – THE CONCERT
Earl Arts Centre, Launceston | Sun 26 March, 7.30pm

MUSIC:

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
Theatre, Royal Hobart | Wed 22 March, 8pm
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre | Thu 23 March, 8pm

PARIS COMBO
Burnie Arts & Function Centre | Wed 22 March, 7.30pm
Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, Hobart | Thu 23 March, 8pm

XIAMEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Albert Hall Launceston | Thu 23 March, 7.30pm
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart | Sat 25 March, 7.30pm

FIRE | Silkweed
Fern Tree Community Hall | Fri 24 March, 8pm
Palais Theatre, Franklin | Sat 25 March, 8pm

THE RITE OF SPRING | TSO & ANAM
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart | Fri 24 March, 7.30pm

SANCTUARY
St David's Cathedral, Hobart | Sat 25 March, 8pm

ACOUSTIC LIFE OF SHEDS - CAPE TO CAPE | Big hART Inc.
Wynyard | Sat 25 & Sun 26 March

SEQUENZA
Mechanics' Hall, Scottsdale | Sat 25 March, 2.30pm
Little Theatre, Deloraine | Sun 26 March, 2.30pm

TIN SHED BAROQUE | Van Diemen's Band
Spring Bay Mill, Triabunna | Sun 26 March, 3pm & 5.30pm

DANCE:

FULLY GROWN | Stompin
John Hart Conservatory, Launceston | Wed 22 - Sun 26 March, 7.30pm

FRAGILE MATTER | Tasdance & Jukstapoz
Princess Theatre, Launceston | Fri 24 March,1pm & 7.30pm

THE FROCK | Graeme Murphy & MADE
Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre | Wed 22 March, 7.30pm
Earl Arts Centre, Launceston | Fri 24 March, 7.30pm and Sat 25 March, 4.30pm & 7.30pm

PERFORMANCE:

BABEL | Invisible Practice
Hobart Council Centre, Hobart | Fri 24 March, 6pm - 11pm & Sat 25 March, 5pm - 10pm

Don't forget you can browse events that are happening statewide and purchase tickets online at tendays.org.au.

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