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https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/many-hearts-lifted-intriguing-performance
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Collecting and connecting – gathering a community through languages of movement. Responding to the proposal that “all movement is dance” 24 community members of all ages and backgrounds come together to perform. Each performer allows a unique peek into their personal movement and dance histories while simultaneously, together, weaving a moving self-portrait of the city…
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I am currently looking for 2 more performers to join a cast of 24 for the performance “selfportrait24 : Ōtepoti – Dunedin“! I am able to work with anyone who is keen and excited to perform, regardless of having a performance background. I would love to have a diverse range of participants, so am looking…
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There has been quite a bit of research and writing done on embodied intelligence. I find that dance, improvisation and other movement practices have given me the possibility to feel these things in experience in my body – which for me is a way of knowing something that feels very different from when I read…
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FRAMING DANCE One of the main ideas behind the performance project selfportait24, as well as my work as the Caroline Plummer fellow in community dance, is that “all movement is dance” if we, as artists and teachers, choose to frame it so that others can perceive it as such. One of the most intriguing challenges…
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This Thursday May 7th I will be heading over to the NZ Marine-Science Center in Portobello to give staff and students an introductory movement workshop. One of the ideas behind this collaboration is to give participants an in-body experience of different ways of moving and decision making than they are used to. The work is…
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I would like to begin this blog by firstly acknowledging Caroline Plummer (1978 – 2003), her parents and the University of Otago for having made this fellowship possible. Here is a link to a website about Caroline and her work – going through it the first time left me in awe – I highly encourage…
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As part of Dance Ōtepoti’s International Dance Day Celebrations, I am offering a special Movement for Everyone workshop free of cost. Movement Workshop for Everyone: getting to know our bodies! The workshop will introduce fundamental movement methods in a very accessible and simple way. We will playfully explore our movement possibilities using the resistance of…
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