ActNow Theatre Community Workshop: Artist Wellbeing with Tanya Voges

In this workshop, Tanya will introduce key principles and useful tools for artists' wellbeing, as well as share exercises that use creative practice to scaffold wellbeing and self-regulation. This workshop is perfect for artists and/or community members interested in the benefits of Dance Movement and Creative Arts Therapies.

Join us for this free event designed for community members aged 18+, with a small donation suggested from allies to support the program.

All donations $2 and over are fully tax-deductible.

Please consider carefully if you are able to attend the workshop before registering your ticket.

Our workshops often become fully booked, with waitlists of people wanting to attend.

If you have any trouble RSVPing please call us at (08) 8123 0346 during business hours or email info@actnowtheatre.org.au to register.

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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Tanya Voges is a socially engaged, interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and creative arts therapist, whose work is based in her history of dance. Through an attempt to constantly capture the ephemerality of dance, Tanya works with mark making and performance drawing, through film and photography, through interviews and spoken word.

Developing her work across this continent of unceeded nations, Tanya has been awarded residencies on Kaurna Yerta with LOFT/ADT, The Mill, Art Gallery of South Australia, Dance Hub SA, regularly in Naarm at Dancehouse (including ICP ‘24), and throughout Eora Nation at Bundanon Ttust, BIGCI, Hawkesbury Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, DirtyFeet and Critical Path. As a dancer Tanya has been a core member of Tasdance, dancing in the work sof significant choreographers- Sue Healey, Tanja Liedtke, Shaun Parker, Anna Smith, Raewyn Hill and Nanette Hassall, and worked between independent choreographers practices and large organisations such as Opera Australia.

Tanya engages with community through site specific performance, workshops and choreography for diverse groups from mothers with their babies, youth dance practice, professional performers through to the elderly. As an advocate for the arts Tanya holds memberships with Dancers Australia/MEAA, Arts Industry Council of South Australia (AICSA), is a life member and previous board member of Ausdance and as a professional member of ANZACATA, Tanya is a qualified Creative Art Therapist specialising in Dance/Movement Therapy.

Photograph by Rosina Possingham

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Please note: ActNow Theatre will be capturing photos and videos for promotional purposes during this workshop. If you do not wish to be recorded, please let an ActNow Theatre representative know when you arrive so we can ensure we respect your needs.

If you have any trouble RSVPing please call us at (08) 8123 0346 during business hours or email info@actnowtheatre.org.au to register.

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ActNow Theatre's Community Workshop program is supported by the ActNow Theatre Accomplices and the Adelaide City Council

This program is also made possible through organisational funding support from Create SA and Creative Australia