Full Program 2020

January (Boronia)

  • Tues 21st Jan @ 10am-12pm - DanceWell Workshop for Young People
    Dance your way to feeling great!! Start 2020 by dancing your way to a positive mind set, with qualified councellor Philippa from Stage Minded & teacher/performer Hayley Thompson. Ages 8-12yrs & 13+. https://www.facebook.com/events/1706256062832322/

  • Tues 21st Jan @ 1-2:30pm - DanceWell Teacher Training Session
    Facilitating good mental health in the studio! In this 1.5hr session Philippa Ziegenhardt from StageMinded will offer us practical tips and advice on how to achieve a good environment for fun and success in classes.

February/March (Boronia)

  • BOYZ DANCING PROGRAM - Term 1 (Exact Dates TBC) - Ages 8-18yrs. A series of 5 weekly workshops with an informal studio performance. Classes (divided into 2 groups depending on age and experience) will include Strength and Conditioning, Hip Hop, dance tricks & contemporary dance. Weather you have been dancing for a long time or you are trying dance for the first time, this program will offer new skills, fun and high energy dance.

  • GIRLZ DANCING PROGRAM - Term 1 (Exact Dates TBC) - Ages 8-18yrs. A series of 5 weekly workshops with an informal studio performance. Classes (divided into 2 groups depending on age and experience) will include Strength and Conditioning, Hip Hop, dance tricks & contemporary dance. Weather you have been dancing for a long time or you are trying dance for the first time, this program will offer new skills, fun and high energy dance.

March/April SCHOOL HOLIDAYS - 2020 Dance Loop Program - school holiday workshops designed to deliver a microcosm of the creative process, from idea, through making to performance. These workshops will focus the passion and energy of young people to create, share and push their movement boundaries in a safe and encouraging environment. The 2020 Dance Loop program is called The Gift and is about making something that is, a dance, a film, a story, and a gift. Using the idea of making a gift for someone to inspire creative thinking and moving we will make short 15-30 second, one shot dance films as individuals or in small groups to be given (screened) at the culmination of the workshop.

  • Mon 30th March - 10am-3pm - Emerald Scout Hall. (Secondary School Age) A micro dance film workshop delivered as part of The PAVE Festival.

  • Tues 31st March - 10am-1pm - Emerald Scout Hall. (Primary School Age) A micro dance film workshop delivered as part of The PAVE Festival.

  • Healesville Dates & Times TBC

  • Mooroolbark/Montrose Dates & Times TBC

April-June - A Gift - Dance ARC Intergenerational Performance Project

  • Rehearsal Locations: Emerald, Mooroolbark, Healesville

  • Performance Location: TBC

  • Time Committment: Weekly 9 x 1.5hr dance classes, in location of your choice, to develop a 5 minute dance work.

  • 1 x A Gift - Micro Dance Film Workshop (See Above)

  • 1 full day for final rehearsal in single location with all groups together

  • 1 full day of performances.

About the idea - A Gift

What can we give to the next generation, the previous generation, each other, the planet, ourselves? A Gift is about finding ways to step across the boundaries that divide us. Thinking about being with each other as a generous process of giving and receiving. If we were to offer someone our time and effort as a gift, what would that look like? What would that feel like? Can we give ourselves and each other the gift of listening, the gift of seeing, the gift of acknowledgment? Let’s make something, a dance, a film, a story and gift it to the audience and to our fellow performers. This is a unique multigenerational work that looks at our place within the big picture of now. Each age group will explore the idea of giving from their own unique perspective and together we will make a gift for our local community. 

Dance ARC Annual Calendar

Scroll through calendar for all the important term and event dates. This calendar will be kept up to date with any class or rehearsal changes.

Dance ARC T-shirts and jackets for our contemporary class on Fridays.

Dance ARC T-shirts and jackets for our contemporary class on Fridays.

Costs

Each workshop will be priced according to its particular needs and costs. You will find prices in the FB events, Workshops, Dance Loops & Performance Project pages of this website. Dance ARC will be run as a socially responsible organisation into the future. This means that we acknowledge the right of artists to be paid appropriately for their work while also aiming to deliver programs at an affordable cost to participants. As such we are NOT FOR PROFIT. If a particular program run by Dance ARC does happen to make a profit; 50% of that will go to charity & 50% will be put towards reducing the costs of future programs for participants. At Dance ARC we believe that dance and artistic expression is a vital part of being human and so we aim to make it as accessible as possible.