Independance

August brings another block of Muscle & Bone, this month with Matiu Tapsell Matiu Tapsell 👏

Saturdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 August
10-11:30am Wellesley Studios

Drop in session - $20 or $18 student
or use your 10 class card ($150/$130 purchase)
Registration is encouraged! Link in bio or email [email protected]

Start your weekend with a dynamic conditioning class designed to build strength, mobility, coordination, and body awareness.
A long-time favourite at Independance, Muscle & Bone combines rhythmic movement with functional strength training to support a resilient and sustainable movement practice. Open to dancers, movers, and curious bodies of all backgrounds and experience levels.

SEE YOU THERE!

This Thursday we close our current series with Rachel: Species in Weight/ing.

Field, Fall, Flow, Fly, Fail, Follow, Fallow.
Practices towards collaborative research through;
Contact improvisation/partner work, Improvisation/scores,
Body weather,
Body work,
Play/Fighting Monkey,
Working with objects,
Witnessing.

For those who work across the performance industry to develop skills working with other bodies; both human and more than.

Thank you Rachel for bringing this inquiry into the studio.

Thursday 9 July 6:30-8:30PM

Please DM us to register, or follow the link in our bio

DOING IN RIGOROUS CONFUSION
Thursdays 7 & 21 May 6:30-8:30pm


These Thursday evenings are a moment to touch base with your making and do in rigorous confusion*. Utilising performance as practice methodologies we will construct, improvise and perform for one another in an attempt to locate where we are and where to next... These sessions are a chance to check in both together and privately - what am I making? what do I want to make? how do I make with what I have? what does it mean? should I make sense of it?
A facilitative session for practitioners who want to gather together in their creative practice, for a few hours, in the dark.

Note: open to all live performance practitioners. Please bring something to write in.

*From Patti Lather, Troubling Clarity, 1996

Rosamund Philpott is a dance artist who is currently completing a creative practice PhD investigating Q***r philosophies of time, phenomenology and historiography. Her practice is rooted in a deep commitment to dancing as the way forward. She is keen to share some of her thoughts, discoveries and methods with other Tāmaki Makaurau performance makers.

Image by Jinki Cambronero

PLEASE REGISTER BY FOLLOWING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR BY EMAILING [email protected]
These classes will go ahead if at least 4 people have registered.

May has begun, and we have already had two wonderful classes with ‘Isope and Tor to start the month.

Here is your class line up for the next few weeks

Mondays 11, 18 & 25 May 6:30-8pm - OPEN CONTEMPORARY with Helena May

Thursdays 7 & 21 May 6:30-8:30pm - DOING IN RIGOROUS CONFUSION with Rose Philpott

Saturday 9 May 10-11:30am - MUSCLE AND BONE with ‘Isope Akau’ola .akauola

Saturdays 16 & 23 May 10-11:30am - MUSCLE AND BONE with Xin Ji

NO CLASSES on Thursdays 14 & 28 May, and Saturday 30 May.

PLEASE register for classes via the link in our bio or by emailing [email protected]
If there are less than 3 sign ups per class, class will be cancelled. It takes 2 minutes to sign up, thank you!!

More info coming soon for Rose’s classes!

CLASS RATES
Drop in - $20 / $18 student
10 class card - $150 / $130 student
Pay at reception before class