Ngioka teaches movement workshops to Youth, Teens, and a Women’s group in quarters two and four out of the Wunggurrwil Dhurrung Centre.įor more information on Chunky Move’s First Peoples Youth Dance Workshops please email Ngioka Bunda-Heath at Supported by VicHealth Reimagining Health JumpStart! grant. In 2023, the First Peoples Youth Dance Workshops have grown to include a new partnership with the Aboriginal Wellness Foundation and the community of Wyndham Vale. Participants will engage in movement workshops consisting of contemporary technique, and hip-hop classes and learn fusion routines inspired by stories shared by Wotjobaluk Elders and Senior Community members. Hosted by Chunky Move’s Ngioka Bunda-Heath (Wakka Wakka, Ngugi, Birrpai) in collaboration with various First Nation guest male facilitators. This program runs in Donald during the April school holidays, Stawell during the June school holidays, and Horsham during the September school holidays. She is currently developing a new solo project exploring the figure of the banshee.Ĭommencing in April 2021, Chunky Move in partnership with Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Cooperative offers a First Peoples youth dance school holiday workshop program (ages primary to high school). We always teach age-appropriate moves to parent-approved music. If the lyrical class comes after a different class, the warm up might be cut short since the dancers will have already warmed up. In 2020/21, she collaborated with Fanny Gicquel making ‘do you feel the same’, a performance installation in gallery and public space, and ‘Cry Carpet’ with Megan Payne and Jacqui Shelton and ‘Here’ with Hassabi. Hip-hop is urban, its street, its diverse and always changing. A beginner lyrical class will last from 45 minutes to an hour, and will be broken up into several sections warm up, across the floor progressions, and center combination. In 2022, she created ‘Tributary’ at Klosterruine in Berlin, in collaboration with Maciek Sado and Oisín Monaghan, premiering and touring ‘Tirana’ with Luisa Saraiva as research partner and performer, ‘Cancelled’ with Maria Hassabi, and touring ‘Here’ with Hassabi. Artistic projects in 2023 include an exhibition by Adam Linder at MCA (Aus), dramaturgy for Lulu Obermayer’s ‘Lulu’ (Vienna) and touring works with Luisa Saraiva (Lisbon and Leuven) and Maria Hassabi (Bologna). Her teaching of Klein Technique™ is grounded in an understanding of the body as an integral whole to maximise the individual’s unique movement potential. Through movement-thought, she explores the production of embodied poetics. Her practice develops through diverse collaborations. Alice Heyward is a dancer, choreographer, dramaturge and teacher from Australia living in Berlin.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |