ADP company artists, independent dancers/makers and other professional artists in the ACT community, or visiting, gather regularly to engage in dance training, technique and networking.
The class is presented by rotating company artists and guest teachers to explore contemporary technique, improvisation, site practice, body practices and other linking at forms including physical theatre and voice. Delivered with a spirit of sharing and exchange, it enables participants to experience a diversity of creative approaches and technical training.
The 90-minute class is open to public participation. We encourage you to read class descriptor to identify suitability for you. Theatre, physical theatre, circus and other performing artists or movement practitioners are welcome.
- When: Thursdays, 9:30-11am
- Where: QL2 Dance Studio, D Block Gorman Arts Centre
Advanced
For dancers who have years of training and experience. Confident in a dance environment and ready for anything!
Mover
For those who are ready and willing to wiggle around. Maybe a bit of movement training, maybe a bit of yoga! Open to doing a technical class with a smile.
Open
For anyone excited enough to join! No need to have dance experience, just a groove in your heart and a pep in your step.
Class Information
Teacher: Deborah Di Centa
In her dance classes, Debora likes to pull together different techniques and movement practices to give participants a variety of styles and approaches to her view on contemporary dance.
This session will start with some basic modern dance technique exercises to prepare the body, contemporary techniques, improvisation, physical Theatre and CI tasks (extracted directly from her Scaffolding Process Method). The final phase of the session will focus on some choreographic practice (short sketches) as a way to express and share individual artistry.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Rhiannon Newton
Rhiannon's contemporary class focuses on moving efficiently and powerfully through the space. Incorporating information from somatic and release-based techniques, it begins with some improvised explorations, followed by floorwork and travelling sequences that are focused on moving with ease and momentum.
Level: Open
Teacher: Yolanda Lowatta
Yolanda's class is a big flow of sensations and energy, aligning quality to sensation and environment to energy.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Yolanda Lowatta
Yolanda's class is a big flow of sensations and energy, aligning quality to sensation and environment to energy.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Min-Shen
How we can shift our weight here and there simultaneously
How one can control his/her own weight, and yet let go of the control
How one can be so gentle in touch, and yet so spontaneous
How we can look with our “skin” but eyes
How much we understand our own body
Or our body understand the world
How brave we can let go
And yet find the true freedom
Contact Improvisation has a hard core as the physical practice, through the practice we understand Contact Improvisation is not just a technique, but also a path of self-discovery as a human being. From which we learn and relearn. This workshop is aimed to enlarge our perspective, for the space we don’t really “see”, or the divers factors which beyond our intel-lecture understanding. However, “body’ knows better.
Teacher: Yolanda Lowatta
Yolanda's class is a big flow of sensations and energy, aligning quality to sensation and environment to energy
Level: Mover
Teacher: Ashlee Bye
Ashlee's class will draw upon her improvisation and Pilates practices to release, centre and strengthen the physical body and the attention. Transitioning into full-bodied movement, we will explore different dynamics and connect to the space and each other.
Level: Open
Teacher: Ashlee Bye
Ashlee's class will draw upon her improvisation and Pilates practices to release, centre and strengthen the physical body and the attention. Transitioning into full-bodied movement, we will explore different dynamics and connect to the space and each other.
Level: Open
Teacher: Levente Szabo
An acrobatic infused contemporary class, that will finish with a long dancey sequence. If a handstand doesn't scare you, you'll be just fine!
Style: Contemporary
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Teacher: Pat Hayes Cavanagh
Pat's class will be contemporary focussed. Combining technical training with phrase-work and improvisation, it will be an opportunity to train and dance without the expectation of perfection, but rather the joy of learning and making mistakes.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Pat Hayes Cavanagh
Pat's class will be contemporary focussed. Combining technical training with phrase-work and improvisation, it will be an opportunity to train and dance without the expectation of perfection, but rather the joy of learning and making mistakes.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Alison Plevey
Move outside the studio, without stepping off the tarkett floor. Alison's class engages the imagination and senses with site centred and spatially driven contemporary dance sequences and improvisation. Suitable for intermediate to professional level dancers.
Level: Mover
Teacher: Alison Plevey
Move outside the studio, without stepping off the tarkett floor. Alison's class engages the imagination and senses with site centred and spatially driven contemporary dance sequences and improvisation. Suitable for intermediate to professional level dancers.
Level: Mover
