Floorbarre workshop with Floeur Alder

A combination of yoga and classical ballet on the floor, to increase strength, flexibility, and rotation. Exercises can also be used in everyday life.

For ages 10+ with basic dance experience.

Duration: 90 minutes.

Contemporary and creative dance workshop with Floeur Alder

A basic technique class adjusted to suit various levels of experience. This includes floorwork, travelling sequences and a creative element from the performance Djilba at the conclusion of the class.

For ages 10+ with basic dance experience.

Duration: 90 minutes.

Floeur Alder

Floeur Alder has an Advanced Diploma in Dance (1998) and a BA in Performing Arts (2003) from WAAPA.

Throughout her career she has danced with Leigh Warren and Dancers, Tasdance, Strut dance, Ochre Contemporary Dance Company, inclusive of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous dancers and currently with NT Dance Company in Darwin.

During her time at Ochre, Floeur received her totem from Esperance Elder, Aunty Gail Yorkshire, which is Djidi Djidi, (Willie wagtail) while on tour on country in Tjuntjunjara, Western Australia. Floeur is extremely humbled by this and feels grateful and honoured to be accepted this way into Aboriginal culture.

In 2011, Floeur travelled to Europe on a Churchill Fellowship to study at the Paris Opera School, Royal Danish school/company, Perm Ballet Academy in Russia and the Royal Ballet School in London.

Floeur is now an independent artist creating works for Ochre, WA Ballet and independently. In 2019 she completed a month-long residency with artist Virginia Ward, at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany Western Australia, creating a new work, Djilba (Spring) “A Moment in time” which has been touring since 2021. Premiering at Eric Singleton Wetlands in Bayswater and touring to All Saints College, Relaunch of the Albany town hall festival 2021, WAAPA memorial performance for Lucette Aldous AC 2022, Imaginarium Festival, Belmont 2023, Bunbury Fringe, Joondalup Festival with Arc circus and the Yugambeh Aboriginal dancers in How the birds got their colours, York Festival with WA Opera performing the Noongar opera, Wundig wer Wilura 2024.

Throughout her career she was awarded ‘Most Outstanding Achievement in Choreography’ at the 2006 WA Ausdance Awards for Rare Earth, voted Dancer to Watch by WA dance critique, Rita Clarke and Australia’s Most interesting Independent Artist in 2018 by Margaret Mercer in the Dance Australia Magazine and in 2019 Floeur was nominated for Best Female at the WA Performing Arts Awards for the 2018 performance of Beyond by Chrissie Parrott.

Floeur has just completed a dance residency at Donnelly River Village, 2025 for the creation of a new work with a team of artists and continues to teach at ballet schools and Waapa in Perth.

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