Events Calendar

1 - 3 DAY WORKSHOP IN STREET DANCE, CONTEMPORARY, AFRICAN DANCE & TRIBAL DRUMMING. CLASSES FOR ALL AGES AND NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
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Dance Crew Urban Street Dance Tutors

Josh is full Niuean in ethnicity but locally born and bred in Wellington. He has completed a Performing Arts degree plus also finished a post graduate diploma at the University of Auckland. Josh's dancing has taken him around the world. His international exploits started off in 2007 competing at the World Hip Hop Championships in Los Angeles with Triple8 Funk, wherethey placed 5th overall. He has now taught and performed internationally in countries such as Tonga, New Caledonia, Niue, Japan and Macau. Now Josh is working on a new journey with his own crew, Hopskotch. Other dance highlights include; performing at the International Youth Dance Festival, The Boogie Zone Eve International Dance Showcase in Los Angeles and also the Triple8Funk Tokyo Tour. He has also claimed first place in a few hip hop competitions including the Tear It Up Wellington Regionals, Tru-skool 3 on 3 battles and the Loose Change 2 on 2 bboy battles.

Kat Walker is one of the founders and leaders of Hopskotch Dance Crew. She has been practicing different hip hop/street dance styles since 2004. Kat recently graduated from the University of Auckland with a Master in Creative and Performing Arts specialising in hip hop dance in New Zealand. She has twice competed in the HHI World Hip Hop championships in the United States of America in 2007 and 2011, and has also performed, battled, and/or taught internationally at a variety of locations such as the USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Australia, and Niue. Kat currently works as a freelance dance choreographer and teacher and is currently involved in teaching at M.I.T, City Dance, and different high schools around Auckland as a guest teacher.
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Proactive Fitness

Sherilee has been involved in Health and Fitness for over 20 years. Teaching both in NZ & overseas. Sherilee teaches Spin, Pump, Zumba and Pilates. Sherilee trained in Auckland through NETFIT's Pilates training and went on to teach for the past 7 years in her own club up in the North Island and when she moved back to her home town Alexandra brought Pilates to ProActive Fitness 24/7. Her focus with Pilates is to improve her clients core strength plus she has a strong focus on enhancing back flexibility and correct posture to avoid injuries and back pain. With her experience and training in strength training and instruction her style of Pilate's is focused on overload to maximise strength gains along with progression to ensure quality training. Sherilee’s class can be attended by the beginner to the advanced as options are given to challenge all abilities and permission to pause as required to ensure a quality workout. Come and try Pilates-your body will love you for it.
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Chesna Barry Contemporary Tutor

I started learning ballet at the age of 5 with SABA and completed Advanced 1 RAD. From there I moved to contemporary and fell in love with the style. I have completed level 6 NZAMD and plan to sit my Solo Seal in May. I had the pleasure of moving to Melbourne to learn from a multitude of guest teachers while studying at Jason Coleman’s Ministry of Dance. Whilst there I was selected to perform in Project Y’s season of Move, the Melbourne Latin Festival, Dance Cancer Initiative and Jason Coleman’s “A Century of Secrets” at the Crown Entertainment Complex.
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Anna Robinson & Matt Lahood African Dance & Tribal Drumming Tutors

Anna has trained in RAD ballet and Jazz before moving on tocontemporary dance. After some time away from the dance community Anna was lured back to dance while living in Perth, Australia through a friend who was attending classes in African dance. The rhythms, movement and stories that came with traditional African dance were irresistible to her. This was followed by a four year study and exploration of African dance for Anna, with numerous traveling dancers and musicians from West Africa making their way to Perth to share their love of dance and music through workshops and short study intensives. Anna also studied this style of dance under several practitioners living in the Perth area and regularly performed at festivals, parties, dance events and special corporate events. Since returning to NZ Anna has gathered all her experience and resources together to start dancing and teaching here.

The grooves are infectious and the moves beautiful, explosive and depictive of various aspects of life in traditional communities.

Matt was introduced to the guitar through his older brother and friend who were playing guitar together. He took to the guitar instantly and progressed through the formative stages of guitar playing with ease, teaching himself leads by inspirational rockgroups such as ACDC. Matt largely taught himself, learning by ear and was soon playing in bands and regularly performing atlocal venues around Taranaki. Matt moved to Perth to pursue his passion for music and spent a year studying the first year of a diploma at TAFE college in music performance. This yearw as also spent alongside his partner Anna, who at that time was learning African dance and listening to a lot of African music! This spawned a new interest for Matt in African rhythms and he started drumming with some local drumming groups and attended several workshops with drummers traveling from West Africa. Matt and Anna's move back to NZ has helped them develop a close relationship in music and dance together and as a team they are fun, dynamic and the joy they hold for rhythm and movement comes through in their performance and workshops!
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$50 three days of dance & drumming classes, $30 members $20 for 4yr to 6yrs, $15 members, $80 FAMILY PASS

To download a Registration Form CLICK HERE

Dates:

• Sat, 20 July 2013 @ 9am to 5pm
  Saturday
• Sun, 21 July 2013 @ 9am to 5pm
  Sunday
• Mon, 22 July 2013 @ 9am to 5pm
  Monday

Location

Dunstan High School