Tassie Troupe Gets Top Endorsement

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Tassie Troupe Gets Top Endorsement

With Prime Ministerial endorsement Second Echo Ensemble, a group of 10 young actor/dancers with and without disabilities will head to New Zealand in October, where they will team up with New Zealand’s premier disability dance company Touch Compass, to present a double bill titled Seamless at the Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland.

Just before they departed the company presented their work titled “The Company I Keep” to a capacity audience in Hobart.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard sent them this note of support before heading off for Auckland to appear at Tempo Dance Festival:

MESSAGE FROM PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD
COSMOS - SECOND ECHO ENSEMBLE

“I recently had the pleasure of visiting COSMOS, an outstanding community organisation bringing a sense of hope and inclusion to those living with intellectual disability in Tasmania.

We so easily describe the clients of COSMOS and its fellow organisations as having disabilities, but they’re full of abilities too. They are people wanting to live their own lives and make their own decisions. People who have so much to offer.

I was very proud to chat with COSMOS’ Second Echo Ensemble on my visit and to hear that they will be bringing their artistry to audiences in New Zealand at the Tempo Dance Festival.

This is such a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talents of these gifted young people and the sense of possibility that has unfolded in their lives.
I therefore warmly congratulate the members of the Second Echo Ensemble. I wish them safe travels and all the best for their 15 October fund raising performance of a play that, very appropriately, explores human emotions and relationships around the theme ‘Love’.

It is an inspiring cause that deserves the support of every Tasmanian.”

PERFORMANCE DETAILS
“SEAMLESS” - a double bill with Second Echo and Touch Compass
Q THEATRE AUCKLAND
SAT 20 Oct 4pm
SUN 21 OCT 6pm
Performance duration: 60 minutes

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