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Contemporary dance, muscle and bone, improvisation and creative practice.
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My contemporary classes incorporate technique and styles I have learned throughout the course of my dance training. These include Ann Dewey’s NZAMD Contemporary syllabus along with numerous Aotearoa NZ dance practitioners including Michael Parmenter and Sarah Foster-Sproull. My classes include exercises that apply technical principles and short choreographed phrases. Additionally, I facilitate guided improvisations that encourage dancers to move beyond habitual patterns in search of new pathways and movement vocabularies.
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MB or Muscle and Bone was created by Min Tanaka for his Body Weather training. I was taught MB during my dance training at Unitec in Auckland (NZ) from Michael Parmenter, Charles Koroneho and Kerryn McMurdo, and recently, in Gretal Taylor’s classes in Narrm/Melbourne. In MB classes a movement(s) is repeated in lines that travel down the space before returning to the start to learn the next movement. These classes improve coordination, rhythm, agility, flexibility, balance and endurance. Following this lineage of teachers, I offer my own style of MB that adapts movements and principles into my own classes.
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I facilitate workshops for dancers and artists interested in expanding their practices in relation to other-than-human entities, be they technological, cultural, ecological, social or political. I invite participants to work with poetics, drawing and stories in building scores in partnership with others. The workshops will include artistic strategies for working with text, sound, video and objects in site-responsive performance.
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