Body Weather Naarm - 5-week training series Oct-Nov 2024

Name: Body Weather Naarm - 5-week training series Oct-Nov 2024
Start: 2024-10-22T18:00:00+1100
End: 2024-11-19T20:00:00+1100
Location: Dancehouse

Tue, 22 Oct, 6pm - 19 Nov, 8pm AEDT

Dancehouse

carlton north, australia

Gretel Taylor

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Body Weather training 5-week series

Body Weather training will increase your fitness and expand your possibilities for movement in fun and fascinating ways.

Led by dance artist and experienced Body Weather facilitator Gretel Taylor, sessions include an MB (Mind/Body, Muscle/Bone) physical workout; and/or groundwork exercises introducing sensory and imagery-led approaches to improvisation, bringing your attention to your body in nuanced ways.

Poorneet season is in full bloom and Buarth Gurru is on its way on Kulin Nation Country. Let’s get active and creative, listening to our bodies and the surrounding world!

All welcome - some fitness recommended.

Access note: The studio is up 2 flights of stairs.

Contact for more info: greteltaylor@gmail.com

www.greteltaylor.com www.bodyplaceproject.com

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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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