Keeping The Dance Alive...: August 2010

Dear dancing friends,
Spring has Sprung!!! Hope it has been a good start for you...
NEWS IN BRIEF:
There is a "Sweat" this Sunday (Sept 5) at Abbotsford Convent from 10.30am - 12.30pm (see info below).
If you plan to do Cycles and have not yet registered - you need to contact us in the next 24 hrs as we need to finalise and communicate with the group. It starts in a week! Get excited...
When the Cycles workshop is on, the regular Tuesday class will run as normal on Tuesday Sept 14th from 7.30 - 9.30pm
Jo Cobbett is returning in November - see info below...

Sweat your Prayers
Meredith and Madhuma continue to offer monthly Sunday ‘Sweats’ at the beautiful and historic Abbottsford convent off St Helliers St. Sweat your Prayers (Sweats) take their name from the title of Gabrielle Roth’s second book. This music only 5Rhythms practice session is an invitation to dance to your hearts content and beyond… For dates, times and info see the2010 Sweat your prayers flyer

Remaining Sundays for 2010 are: Sept 5, Oct 10, Nov 14 and Dec 12. The ‘Sweats’ go from 10.30am-12.30pm. Folks with children are encouraged to bring them along! There are great food options on the Convent site.

Jo Cobbett Workshop; The dance of connection
Jo returns to Melbourne to teach an evening on Nov 19th and a workshop on Nov 21/22. We will have flyers at our weekly classes but the events are being co-ordinated by Michelle Mahrer. Please contact Michelle on mmahrer@bigpond.net.au or 0419 269 986 for all the information. Jo is teaching in Sydney and Byron Bay too. Jo's website is www.movinground.com

Tuesday ‘Waves’ classes in Melbourne
Tuesday open classes continue weekly as normal and on the first Tuesday of every month, Meredith will focus on introducing the 5Rhythms for newcomers.
5Rhythms Dance®
Tuesday nights
7.30pm – 9.30pm
St Brigids Parish Hall
Corner Nicholson St and Alexander Pde, Nth Fitzroy
Off street parking is available (enter off Nicholson St ) and tram no 96 stops out the front.
Just $15

You can find out all about the practice at www.5rhythms.com or www.gabrielleroth.com

Hope to see you on the dancefloor!
Meredith and David
5Rhythms Dance^®
dance5rhythms@bigpond.com
0408 881 557 or 0409 992 656

TAA Peer Mentoring Program Melbourne – 2010 - Sundays 10am – 1pm

Sept. 12th: Facilitator: Meran Cassidy will present ~ Embodying:' A Hands on Relationship Between Anatomy and Movement'.
VENUE: Dancehouse (upstairs studio), 150 Princes Street, Carlton 3054 COST: $10 DTAA members/ $25 non-members.

EMBODYING Our anatomical movement is alive and a vital part of our living breathing self.
The story of evolution has the potential to deepen our understanding of our body in motion.

We will begin a self- enquiry into our anatomy by considering the spine, girdles and limbs through movement and

hands -on explorations using a variety of mediums - the skeleton, self sense and movement, palpation and drawing,

all being possibilities to develop our understanding of living anatomy. The cell, the fish, the mammal; all hold aspects of our human motion.

We will consider this and see what unfolds through our own understanding of human movement with lots of questions, movement explorations and fun.

Meran Cassidy Rolfer, Anatomy in Movement.

For members and non-members of the DMT community who would find it personally and professionally beneficial to join a program that aims to promote working together and getting to know each other as peers through a focus on creative movement explorations. The explorations are directed towards allowing for individual or collective themes and discussions that grow from thematic dialogues. Also please email Tiana if you have a theme/subject in mind that would benefit/support your professional work in the community for 2011.
A confirmation email would be appreciated allowing us to accommodate the number of participants for the morning. Fee: Members $10 non-members; $25 .DTAA annual membership is $55

Oct. 24nd : 10 - 4pm Tiana will facilitate~ Articulating Our Style as Facilitators & Maria Sangiorgi will also present ~ "Embodied Bellydance as a Therapeutic Dance "

For enquiries and more information about this program for 2010
Tiana Li Donni: 0421 045 438 email: tianamoves@hotmail.com

Soul Moves Tuesdays 7.30-9.30pm Oct.12-Nov. 23 6 wks Venue: Augustine Centre 2 Minona st. Hawthorn. Cost: $180

During these sessions you will be guided to express your unique inner experiences using the arts.
In Soul Moves you will have opportunities to enter into movement explorations from the inside out with

the potential for insightful self- awareness and opportunities for discoveries on the inner landscape.

Freeing and increasing our range of movement can also be a way of building a more flexible and toned body.

Soul Moves expands and deepens our level of awareness of ourselves in motion, and has the potential to give

access to our personal stories. We will use the mediums of creative movement, intuitive drawing and dialogues
to shape and express ourselves physically,mentally and emotionally.
“ All our life experiences and stories live and are held in the muscles, bones and soft tissue of the body.

Our personal history shapes the body … and determines how we feel, move, think and act…” ( G. Hoffman Soto).

Phone Tiana on (03) 9574 9016 m: 0421 045 438 Email: tianamoves@ hotmail.com Bookings essentials. Art material included.