TIMETABLE

Nov 28 -02 Dec '24

Check out our amazing timetable. So much is on offer and you can choose!

CREATE YOUR FESTIVAL with 3 dance floors running every morning & afternoon. Choose your favourite workshops from an incredible selection.

Between dance sessions is yoga & guided relaxation and at night we gather for ecstatic dance & ceremony, or, you can kick back and relax in the Chill Tent.

MEAL TIMES each day are:

Breakfast (optional) - 7:30-9:30am

Lunch (community lunch included in General Admission ticket) 12:30-2pm

Dinner (optional) - 5:30-7pm

GET STARTED

Browse through the selection of workshops on offer and choose one for each session. When you're ready, at the bottom of this page go ahead and save your festival line-up:

Full Name

THURSDAY

Day 1 - arriving

3-4:30pm - WELCOME

Welcoming and Festival Opening

Pause, breathe and arrive with us!

We will open the Festival and the Dance Floor. Our first chance to be and move together. You'll be sensitively facilitated through movement and art making to consider what you are bringing to the Festival and what you would like to leave with.

4:45-6:00pm- Whole Festival Workshop

with CDA facilitators

As a community together everyone at CDA is invited to delve into movement and dance to explore boundaries and consent. What does a full bodied YES feel like in your body? What about a NO? Do you read other people's YES and NO? We will explore embodied boundaries and consent in ways that empower. This workshop intends to enhance and support healthy community, beginning at CDA.

FRIDAY

Day 2

7-7:45am - Morning Yoga

Gentle Morning Wake Up (optional)

9:30-12:30 - SESSION ONE

Option 1

Edge Play

In this workshop, we will explore our ‘edges’ on the dance floor. Where do we let ourselves go? Where do you not let ourselves go? How do we resource ourselves to meet our edges? What happens when we come to meet our edges with sensitivity and playfulness, rather than avoiding or overriding them?

with Claire Eccleston and Rata Gordon

Option 2

Embodied Feeling

The original language for all of us is embodied feeling, it is how we communicate as babies. This workshop encourages you to reconnect to this preverbal wisdom. Experience healing through the intimacy of growing emotional literacy within yourself, and as a community.

with Sybille Biedert

Option 3

An Intro to Contact Improvisation

A doorway into the wonderful world of Contact Improvisation.

Ross and Jooske will invite opportunities to discover & deepen into the tools necessary for safe, curious, and confident engagement in contact improvisation dances.

with Ross Inness-McLeish and Jooske Honig

Your preferece for session one:

Edge Play

Embodied Feeling

An Intro to Contact Improv

2-2:45pm

AFTERNOON RELAXATION

Sound healing. Come lie down, rest and integrate.
Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets.

2-5pm - SESSION TWO

Option 1

Death of Trying

What are your invitations to surrender? What holds you as you exhale, as you relinquish the need to effort?

Let's explore a yielding to gravity and presence. What can we learn about dying to the past and future and being born into the small now?

In The Death of Trying Damara holds a space for shedding roles, responsibilities and 'shoulds' in the interest of encountering ground, presence and centre.

with Damara Sylvester

Option 2

Reawakening the Innocence of Pleasure

Fun and creative ways to explore reawakening the innocence of pleasure and reclaiming the birth rite of our bodies to feel good and be an enJOYble place to be.

Pleasure does not always need to be sexual however opening to pleasure can awaken your eros and lust for life.

This workshop will be fully clothed, touch optional and Participants will be encouraged to listen to and work within their own limits and willingness.

with Claire Eccelston

Option 3

Meeting and Being Met

Trust and self awareness are keys to listening to your body's wisdom & to connecting on a deeper level with other dancers. In this warmly-held, mindful container, Jooske and Miriam will guide you through playful inter-actions & physical experiments. We will invite you to explore your inner dialogue, to notice your responses and the patterns that arise. Our points of interest are weight sharing, trust, risk-taking & momentum.

with Miriam Marler and Jooske Honing

CONSCIOUS DANCE AOTEAROA / NZ