Hopping on a bus to Nowhere is not an unusual concept for regular Stompin audiences. In fact I distinctly remember doing ‘blockies’ around the centre of Launceston in a bus on the way to the venue for an aptly titled piece I Love Cars (choreographed by Adam Wheeler – now the Artistic Director of Tasdance) in 2011.

Nowhere. Photo supplied

Almost in direct contrast, Nowhere takes audiences out of the city of Launceston and into one of the local, secret wild places. More recently the home to a solitary bull, Tamar Island is surrounded by wetlands, which are now protected and made accessible by a very long board walk, which crosses large sections of river and marsh.

This is the site of the first section of the work co-created by choreographer Yolande Brown and the 17-strong cast of Stompin youth dance company.  In collaboration with local writer Adam Thompson, they have used the length, and very narrow breadth, of the boardwalk to guide a procession of the audience to slowly weave its way out to the island.

Each person, equipped with headphones, moves in single file accompanied by the key characters of the landscape around...