Dance Week Workshops

Dance First Think Later
Weekend of 28th & 29th April 2012,

Southern Edge Arts presented a giant weekend dance extravaganza during Dance Week 2012.
Choreographers Symantha Parr, Annette Carmichael and dancer Carmen Fasolo delivered a series of workshops  creating exciting, cutting edge choreography. The workshops  explored the many facets of dance in motion and stretched the physical and mental boundaries of the participants

Participantsl created a choreography, which will be refined and rehearsed during the second session on Sunday. These sessions cater for all levels of experirnce, from the complete beginner to advanced dancers. 

All Participants joined in the FLASH MOB we presented on the Sunday Boatshed Markets

Holiday Workshops

The Snap - Photo Comic Workshop

April School Holidays

Create projections and photo comic using Photography, Photoshop and Comic Life with Artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger.

This free workshop, presented by Drug Aware Youth Arts Unearthed, will take place over the two weeks of school holidays and is open to young people aged 12 - 25. Poppy will be working with interested youth, on a photo comic project for Southern Edge Arts next performance project "The Snap".

Venue: Southern Edge Arts, 77 Sanford Road, Albany

Week 1
Tue 10 - Fri 13 April
2pm - 4pm
Week 2
Mon 16 - Thur 19 April
2pm - 4pm
SEA at 77 Sanford Road, Albany
cost: FREE
To register call
Poppy on 0438 992 465

Hip Hop Havoc

17th, 18th and 19th of April 2012
10am – 12pm for 8-11 year olds
1pm – 3pm for 12 years and over
 
These Easter holidays Jeremy ‘Moondog J ‘ will be running another hip hop workshop at Southern Edge Arts (SEA). Multitalented musician and dancer, Moondog J has just returned from Christmas Island where he joined up with Optamus to work with the locals on music and dance. His next trip is back to Chicago, so students better get in quick to take up these spots in the Hip Hop Havoc workshop.
 
Symantha Parr – SEA’s dance tutor says: “Jeremy’s classes are extremely popular and he engages really well with everyone. He is a great role model for the guys. Dance and acrobatics are his specialty as well as hip hop beats and rhymes.”
 
Moondog J, will include a cipher session this time, which is beatboxing, rapping and rhyming together with dancing and freestylin. Beatboxing is when participants get to make cool noises into the microphone and create the beat, which others can then dance or rap to!
 
After watching the student’s Freestylin hip hop act at SEA’s recent showcase, Simon Clarke, SEA’s Artistic Director reckons, “Hip hop never fails to energise a crowd and is a universal form of dance expression that is athletic and energetic and downright cool!”
 
If you ever wanted to learn hip hop and break dancing or you wanted to add to your skills that you learnt last time, then this is your opportunity. Moondog J is great with beginners and those more advanced. How’s your six step? Practice freezing, popping and locking. Wanna know what tutting is? B Boyz and B Girlz are invited to bring your sneakers, beats and rhymes to these cool workshops.

Booking essential
cost $75
seamail@southernedge.org.au
9841 6002

Aerial Dance Workshops!

11/12 February 2011

Chloe de Buyl-Pisco is an amazing flying dancer who touched down here in Albany in February! Fresh from the WA circus festival she gave group workshops on the saturday and intensive one on one workshops on the Sunday.
Her workshops were led in a way to encourage exploration and discovery. She used multiple equipment all rigged at once in her workshop.  On saturday she used: lyra, silks, static trapeze, single point trapeze and hammock. ALL the equipment, the space around it and the ground is then utilised in a series of creative exercises as a sort of "jungle of possibilities". On Sunday she used individual apparatus for solo and duet focused exercises.

Kiara said, " It was fun, we learnt new techniques in the air. Chloe did lots of conditioning exercises and the straddle conditioning sequence was a killer! "


Chloe de Buyl-Pisco

Is an Aerialist, dancer, choreographer and director of large scale performances. She works mainly with Aerial dance, a cross genre that focuses on the physical clarity and endless possibilities of contemporary dance choreography as well as advanced technical skills in all aerial equipment.

She trained as a dancer and has been performing since she was 3 years old, growing up in Brussels and then Ireland. Chloe worked with a variety of contemporary dance companies as a dancer and then set up her own company, NO FRONTIERS DANCE CO in 2005. Over 6 years she created some 30 shows using a whole spectrum of dancers, acrobats, BMX-ers, Skaters, aerialists and more.

In 2008 she began performing on aerial equipment and transferring her dance skills to this wonderful artform, Aerial dance. She has since performed and taught aerial dance around the world with the "The Flying Dance company". This is an ensemble of dancers who undertake formal aerial circus training and become aerialists.

Her favourite work is choreography/directing on circus acts, which she has been doing all over Europe and now Australia.
Most recently she has taught aerial dance at Cambridge circus UK, ZIG ZAG Circus in Adelaide and the world renowned National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), in Melbourne as well as performing with LAVA ( N.Y.) at the Tasmanian Circus Festival, January 2011 and teaching and performing at the WA Circus Festival in 2012.
Check out her website www.flying-dance.com


 

Hip Hopshop

As requested, Moondog J offered his Hip Hopshop in the summer holidays. He is a multitalented musician and dancer who has worked with Morganics and Optamus (member of Downsyde). Symantha Parr – SEA’s dance tutor says: “ Jeremy really engages with the dance crew and is an encouraging teacher and amazing performer. His classes are fun and mixed up to include music, video, dancin and rhymes. “

After watching the student’s Freestylin hip hop act at SEA’s recent showcase, Simon Clarke, SEA’s Artistic Director reckons, “Hip hop never fails to energise a crowd and is a universal form of dance expression that is athletic and energetic and downright cool!”

Students learnt hip hop and break dancing, starting with the basics and then advancing their skills. They got their top rock down pat, prepared for windmills, flips and other power moves and moonwalked better than Michael Jackson!

B Boyz and B Girlz brought their attitude and some flashy sneakers to these cool workshops.

DATES: 16th, 17th & 18th of January 2012
Ages 7 – 12 $75 10am – 12pm
Ages 13-25 $90 1pm – 4pm