Body Weather Naarm - November 2026

Name: Body Weather Naarm - November 2026
Start: 2026-10-15T19:00:00+1100
End: 2026-10-15T23:00:00+1100
Location: Dancehouse Studios Brunswick

Thu, 15 Oct, 7pm - 11pm AEDT

Dancehouse Studios Brunswick

Brunswick VIC, Australia

Gretel Taylor

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Body Weather Naarm – experience your body differently

Expand your physical range and experience your body in nuanced ways. Conscious of context (place, space, site, Country), Body Weather training increases fitness, strength and flexibility, and develops varied embodied qualities for performance.

Led by dancer and experienced facilitator Gretel Taylor, sessions include a physical workout (‘MB’, Mind/Body, Muscle/Bone) and/or perception or imagery-led movement activities as approaches to improvisation.

Body Weather is a comprehensive approach to training and performance that investigates the relationships between bodies and their environments. The practice and philosophy of Body Weather was founded in the 1980s in Japan by Min Tanaka and continues to be developed by practitioners worldwide.

New and experienced dancers all welcome.

*On the third session (17/11) we will have an outdoor session in a nearby park. Site TBC.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Gretel Taylor

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Gretel Taylor is a dancer, researcher and curator who has presented site-responsive performances locally and internationally. Gretel studied Body Weather with founder Min Tanaka in Japan in 1999 and 2000, which she has since shared with the Melbourne performance community through facilitation of training and workshops (via her platform BodyPlaceProject). She has taught Dance and Performance at Deakin, RMIT, Monash and Victoria University. Gretel has developed an improvisational ‘locating’ practice as a mode of relating to place during her PhD (2009) and as an ongoing inquiry. She is preoccupied with grappling towards an embodied acknowledgement of Country and a sense of becoming present, here and now, on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm, wherever we come from. She also wonders how ‘Body Weather’ might contribute to performance practice in this time of extreme weather and climate crisis. Gretel is a founding member of Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), a group that uses Body Weather as an underpinning method for their site-specific walking performances.

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Thu, 15 Oct, 7pm - 11pm AEDT

Dancehouse Studios Brunswick

Brunswick VIC, Australia

Hosted by Gretel Taylor

Body Weather Naarm - November 2026

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