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RHYTHMS OF YOUR BODY | PRIYA SRINIVASAN

08 February 2020 - 09 February 2020

What happens when the dancing body is also a body embedded in music, text, history, memory and is at once spiritual and political? How can you learn methodologies from forms that understand the body differently to generate new choreography while being proactive in discovering your own solutions, archiving yourself and connections within your own body?

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THE TOUCH OF THE OTHER | TAKAO KAWAGUCHI

29 February 2020 - 01 March 2020

Touch of the Other is a workshop with public outcome led by Takao Kawaguchi exploring the aesthetics, erotics, and politics of male-male sex in public restrooms, known to their users as "tearooms."

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MORTAL MATERIALS: WRITERS' WORKSHOP WITH CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

02 March 2020 - 06 March 2020

A writing/making/thinking/talking lab for artists and writers interested in spending fifteen hours' worth of their non-renewable resources so as to explore collectively shaped questions and speculations.

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CHOREOGRAPHY AS WRITING: HOTBED WORKSHOP WITH METTE EDVARDSEN

07 March 2020 - 08 March 2020

For professional choreographers. Exploring Mette Edvardsen's recent works and methodologies, developed using language as material and looking into the relationship between writing and speaking, between language and voice. 

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1 NOTE 2 MOVEMENTS 3 WORDS: COMPOSITION WORKSHOP WITH MATTEO FARGION

14 March 2020 - 15 March 2020

A 2 day composition workshop focussing on what happens when ideas and techniques which come from music are translated into movement, and vice versa.

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SWIMMING WITH THE CHAOS | ROSALIND CRISP

28 March 2020 - 01 April 2020

Australian dancer-choreographer Rosalind Crisp will share her dance tools and choreographic sources. These are an evolving field of practical and concrete tools to generate movement and negotiate histories present in the body. 

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A WEEK IN JANUARY WITH [ TWO FOR NOW ]

13 January 2020 - 17 January 2020

A week to deepen and extend your practice of Contact Improvisation (CI) with respected Melbourne-based improvisational duo [ two for now ], Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer.

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JACOB BOEHME: DECOLONISING PRACTICE

06 October 2019

After a brief introduction to basic protocols of working with Indigenous artists, Jacob Boehme will be sharing with the participants his curatorial and artistic vision, anchored around frames of navigation and connection, as a way of deeply listening to Country and Community. 

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NEXT STAGES 2019

10 August 2019 - 17 August 2019

NEXT STAGES is a series of practical, capacity-building seminars for independent dance artists and emerging artists from other art forms, led by industry experts.

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KIMBERLY BARTOSIK: MERCE CUNNINGHAM TECHNIQUE CLASSES

24 August 2019 - 25 August 2019

Kimberly Bartosik, former Merce Cunningham dancer, NY Bessie Award recipient for Exceptional Artistry in Cunningham's work, and NYC-based choreographer leads two Cunningham Technique classes.

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