Independance

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

Whoa, we’re in June?

Swipe through for what to expect on the D-floor this month 🌀

Monday 8 June ~ Open Contemporary class with 6:30-8pm

Mondays 15, 22 & 29 June ~ Open Contemporary class with 6:30-8pm

Thursdays 4, 11 June ~ Improvisation with 6:30-8pm

Thursdays 18, 25 June ~ Species of Weight/ing with 6:30-8pm

Saturdays 6, 13, 20, 27 June - Muscle and Bone with 10-11:30am

Please register via the link in our bio or by emailing [email protected]! It’s important we know how many people to expect in class! Especially on Thursdays 🫡

Looking forward to sharing the space with you all.

See you in June 🫠

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CLASS WITH LIV ~ starting tonight 🌀

Thursdays 4 & 11 June
6:30-8pm


Drawing on my experience in improvisation and somatic practices, each week we will spend time arriving in our bodies and evolving into a series of improvisational tasks and exercises to allow for attentive tuning with ourselves and each other.

Olivia McGregor (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Raukawa) is a dance artist originally from from Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai/ Lower Hutt. Olivia is a graduate of the New Zealand School of dance and has performed around Europe and Aotearoa in dance theatre, performance art installations and film with companies including Atamira Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance, The New Zealand Dance Company, Constanza Macras- Dorky Park, Julian Weber, Andre Uerba and Matteo Graziano. Her Choreographic work has been presented at Tiny Festival (2024).

Photo by Cameron Park - Strut Dance

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