First Floor: Launceston's hidden upstairs worlds to be explored through dance for Junction Festival

This theme will be explored in a new performing arts concept, First Floor, curated by Tasdance to debut at the upcoming Junction Arts Festival.

Four mainland dancers and local Gabriel Comerford have been assigned one upstairs space each, where they have been designing an abstract and contemporary dance theatre routine as their own personal response to that space.

Gabriel's performance focuses on an old bakery above St John Craft Beer Bar - but the other four spaces are secret.

Artistic director Adam Wheeler said that not only will attendees be treated to some of Australia's best interpretative dance, but they will also be introduced to five rarely-seen Launceston rooms.

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"We have beautiful old buildings, and we acknowledge how wonderful they are, but the first floors are often empty or disused spaces that people don't often get to see," he said.

"I got curious about that.

"It will be a reflection of that conversation between public and private space."

First Floor runs twice a night from September 5 to 7, starting at Prince's Square.