Body Weather Naarm Oct-Dec 2025

Conscious of context and spatial relationships, Body Weather training expands physical range, increases fitness, and develops nuanced embodied qualities for performance.

Led by dancer and experienced Body Weather facilitator Gretel Taylor, sessions include a physical workout, perception activities and approaches to improvisation.

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

New and experienced dancers all welcome. The format of the class supports multiple levels of experience.

Gretel Taylor trained at Min Tanaka’s Body Weather Farm in Japan in 1999 and 2000 which has since informed her performance, teaching and research. Gretel developed an improvisational ‘locating’ practice as a mode of relating to place during her PhD and as an ongoing inquiry, with particular interest in ecological and decolonial lenses on place-responsive performance. She has taught Dance and Performance at Deakin, RMIT, Monash and Victoria University, as well as regularly at Dancehouse. She is lead Artist/Curator at BodyPlaceProject. www.bodyplaceproject.com