workshops
Students need to be at the Theatre at 9 am Workshops and rehearsals will commence at 10:30 am. The focus this year is the students - giving them an opportunity to:
We are really keen to develop the dance community among our youth!
We have completed fundraising to make these workshops and tickets (to watch) available for our students.
- Meet each other
- Dance with each other in workshops
- Experience different dance styles/teachers
- Watch each other in both rehearsals
- And learn from each other
We are really keen to develop the dance community among our youth!
We have completed fundraising to make these workshops and tickets (to watch) available for our students.
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2018 WORKSHOP
Workshops have been confirmed and we are excited to offer a wide range of talent.
Mike Baker -Contact Improv / Chloe Kemp - Hip Hop / Michael Person - Capoeira
Please let your teachers know what workshop you would like to be in and we will try our best to fit you in.
Descriptions:
* Capoeira Michael Person has trained in Capoeira for 9 years with the group Cordau De Ouro (Cord of Gold) under Mestre Papa Leguas. For the last 3 years I have run workshops in Nelson during the summer teaching beginners and intermediate classes in capoeira movements & music. Capoeira comes from Brazil and is known as a dance/fight/game and means different things to different people. Capoeira is played (joga) in a closed circle (roda) with a music band (bateria) at the mouth of the circle. Traditionally capoeira was used as a way to practise martial arts while disguising the practise as a dance. Nowadays 2 people play at a time and use dance, martial kicks, expressive dodges and a sense of fun to challenge themselves and their partner. In my lessons we will be covering the basic kicks (melua) dodges (esquiva) and swing (ginga) so we can all play the game. For the more experienced acrobats among us we will also be learning aerial flow, capoeira cartwheels (au) and bridge based flow.
Capoeira is a fun, exciting and challenging experience that compliments many disciplines of dance and martial arts. Hear the music and move to the beat and prepare to have fun! Axé . Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-35qxelMt6E
*Hip Hop - Miss Chloe brings over 8 years of teaching experience. Miss Chloe has trained in numerous genres of dance and found her passion within the Hip Hop style. Miss Chloe is a registered UDO international Hip Hop Teacher and is looking forward to teaching our new RBM New Zeland Hip Hop Syllabus.Miss Chloe is passionate about teaching and loves seeing students work hard to reach their potential. Miss Chloe has trained many dancers at all levels from preschool classes through to National and International Level Crews. Her love for Hip Hop has seen Miss Chloe work with leading Hip Hop Choreographers here in New Zeland and Overseas.
"My teaching goal this year is to help all my students push out of their comfort zones and develop their Hip-Hop to new heights while still having fun!"
* Contact Improv - Mike Baker brings almost a decade of experience from MakeShift Contact Improvisation Dance or called (CI ) is a dance form in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for movement improvisation and exploration. Mike has been teaching CI for 9 years now. I conceived and ran the Nelson Lakes Mountain Jam CI Dance Retreat in the Nelson Lakes National Park for 5 years. I am currently practicing and teaching CI with my wife Fiona on a weekly basis in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. I am half way through my Masters in Art and Design, majoring in dance and video entitled 'In the Company of Strangers). If you are interested please have a look at my blog (above) where for the last year and a half I have been posting my process and research practice with text and movie clips.
Workshops have been confirmed and we are excited to offer a wide range of talent.
Mike Baker -Contact Improv / Chloe Kemp - Hip Hop / Michael Person - Capoeira
Please let your teachers know what workshop you would like to be in and we will try our best to fit you in.
Descriptions:
* Capoeira Michael Person has trained in Capoeira for 9 years with the group Cordau De Ouro (Cord of Gold) under Mestre Papa Leguas. For the last 3 years I have run workshops in Nelson during the summer teaching beginners and intermediate classes in capoeira movements & music. Capoeira comes from Brazil and is known as a dance/fight/game and means different things to different people. Capoeira is played (joga) in a closed circle (roda) with a music band (bateria) at the mouth of the circle. Traditionally capoeira was used as a way to practise martial arts while disguising the practise as a dance. Nowadays 2 people play at a time and use dance, martial kicks, expressive dodges and a sense of fun to challenge themselves and their partner. In my lessons we will be covering the basic kicks (melua) dodges (esquiva) and swing (ginga) so we can all play the game. For the more experienced acrobats among us we will also be learning aerial flow, capoeira cartwheels (au) and bridge based flow.
Capoeira is a fun, exciting and challenging experience that compliments many disciplines of dance and martial arts. Hear the music and move to the beat and prepare to have fun! Axé . Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-35qxelMt6E
*Hip Hop - Miss Chloe brings over 8 years of teaching experience. Miss Chloe has trained in numerous genres of dance and found her passion within the Hip Hop style. Miss Chloe is a registered UDO international Hip Hop Teacher and is looking forward to teaching our new RBM New Zeland Hip Hop Syllabus.Miss Chloe is passionate about teaching and loves seeing students work hard to reach their potential. Miss Chloe has trained many dancers at all levels from preschool classes through to National and International Level Crews. Her love for Hip Hop has seen Miss Chloe work with leading Hip Hop Choreographers here in New Zeland and Overseas.
"My teaching goal this year is to help all my students push out of their comfort zones and develop their Hip-Hop to new heights while still having fun!"
* Contact Improv - Mike Baker brings almost a decade of experience from MakeShift Contact Improvisation Dance or called (CI ) is a dance form in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for movement improvisation and exploration. Mike has been teaching CI for 9 years now. I conceived and ran the Nelson Lakes Mountain Jam CI Dance Retreat in the Nelson Lakes National Park for 5 years. I am currently practicing and teaching CI with my wife Fiona on a weekly basis in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. I am half way through my Masters in Art and Design, majoring in dance and video entitled 'In the Company of Strangers). If you are interested please have a look at my blog (above) where for the last year and a half I have been posting my process and research practice with text and movie clips.
