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) - 7:30-9:00am

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

Dinner (optional) - 6:00-7:00pm

THURSDAY

Day 1 - arriving

3:00-4:00pm

Welcome and Festival Opening with CDA Team

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.

4:30-6:00pm

Embodied Boundaries & Consent

Whole Festival Workshop

with Jo Woods

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 each of us. This workshop intends to enhance, inspire and support healthy community, beginning at CDA.

7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING GATHERING

Ecstatic Dance

with Dance Temple Motueka

A local welcome to all Festival goers. On the first evening of the festival, Dance Temple Motueka, the local community conscious dance dance crew, will take us on a lightly facilitated ecstatic dance journey. Dance Temple Motueka says, "Our vision is to offer a deep and sacred space to nurture the soul through movement, expression and community connection...Come as you are!"

FRIDAY
Day Two

7-7:45am - Gentle wake up and stretch

Morning Yoga (optional)
Bring a Yoga mat if you have one. Some provided.

9:30am -12:30pm - 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

2-5pm - SESSION TWO

Option 1

Rest

Take a moment to pause if your body/mind/soul is most called to this option.

with Chill Tent or Beautiful Riverside Nature

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 Honig

Rest & Integrate: Yoga - Yin & Nidra
5:15pm - 6:00pm

An opportunity to relax & integrate the day.
Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets if you have them.

7:30pm- EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING GATHERING

Closeness: An enquiry & ecstatic dance

with Ellie Wilde

Like her workshop at CDA, of the same title, Ellie brings 20+ years of experience holding spaces for people to explore connection with others, onto the dance floor.

This evening will be an experiential human laboratory of closeness, where we enquire into the nature of connection. What facilitates connection and what diminishes it? What is connection? How do we find the right distance and right timing and move at a pace where all the parts of us are onboard.

SATURDAY

Day 3

7-7:45am - Gentle wake up and stretch

Morning Yoga
Bring mat if you have one. Some mats provided.

9:30-12:30 - SESSION THREE

Option 1

Seeing Myself in Your Presence

with Alexandra Schefner

The practice of Authentic Movement can be considered a therapeutic self-exploration and movement meditation based on the collaboration between a mover and a witness. In the presence of a compassionate witness the mover closes their eyes and listens to the inner stirrings, expressing them in spontaneous movement impulses. The experience is then digested through reflective practices of writing & drawing, and shared through mindful speech.

Option 2

Creative Disruption

with Jo Woods, Rata Gordon and Damara Slyvester

In this catalytic movement workshop, we will explore what it means to collaborate and trust the process. How can we open with curiosity to the dynamics of disruption? Join us for an emergent live exploration of music, dance, and creative process.

Option 3

Initiate Connection

with Sybille Biedert & Jooske Honig

Empower yourself to become available to the dance you long for.

Sybille and Jooske offer you a clear space to practise non verbal embodied communication. Explore how the clarity of consent moves in your bodies (physical, mental, emotional, energetic, archetypal). Embody your boundaries. Move with the embracing of your discomfort. Lean out of your comfort zone into your aliveness - the unknown dance that only unfolds in connection.

2-5pm - SESSION FOUR

Option 1

Re-awakening the Innocence of Pleasure

with Claire Eccelston

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.

Option 2

REMEMBERING our BELONGING - Reciprocity

with Ingrid Nagl

In this therapeutic Open Floor based workshop we explore our relationship to the earth & our ecosystem as a foundation to all other relationships we're engaged with. As we move deeply into the wisdom of our individual and collective embodied memory, we may discover and shed layers of ancestral, cultural, bodily or emotional trauma that kept us separate from what
we yearn for and belong with.

"True belonging depends upon our reciprocity with the environment in which we are embedded, and unto which we are indebted" (Toko-Pa)

Option 3

Touched: Awakening Embodied Connection

with Ross Inness-McLeish & Miriam Marler

Grounded in a trauma sensitive, somatically-informed lens, Miriam and Ross invite you to explore the wisdom of your body-as-organism, and its innate potential for growth and transformation. Through the power of touch, movement & community, we will draw on embodied mindfulness, trauma theory, and the principles of contact improvisation to explore our somatic capacities for resourcing, resilience, and life forward direction.

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra

5:15-6pm

Opportunity to rest and integrate your day
Bring mats and supports such as cushions, blankets if you have them.

7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

EVENING GATHERING

5 Rhythms®: Sweat Your Prayers

with Douglas Drummond

"Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance." Gabrielle Roth

Join us for a 3-hour, gently guided journey through Gabrielle Roth's "5Rhythms: Sweat Your Prayers" practice, where movement becomes a sacred expression and a powerful form of meditation.

This immersive session invites you to explore the rhythms of your body, the power of your breath and the depths of your spirit in a supportive and energising environment.

SUNDAY

Day 4

7-7:45am - Yoga

Gentle Morning Wake Up

9:30-12:30 - SESSION FIVE

Option 1

5Rhythms®: Gateways of Embodiment

"It takes discipline to be a free spirit." Gabrielle Roth

The 5Rhythms is a map of how energy moves and transforms. Step into a transformative journey of self-discovery and connection through Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms practice. This workshop invites you to explore the five core rhythms—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness—as powerful gateways of embodiment. Whether you are a seasoned dancer or a complete beginner, this immersive experience will guide you to deepen your sense of self, enhance your emotional awareness, and cultivate a profound connection to your body.

Option 2

Rest

Option 3

Closeness: An Exploration of Connection

An exploration of connection.

A dynamic experiential human laboratory of closeness, where we enquire into the nature of connection. What facilitates connection and what diminishes it? What is connection? How do we find the right distance and right timing and move at a pace where all the parts of us are onboard.

2-5pm - SESSION SIX

Option 1

REMEMBERING our BELONGING - Reciprocity

with Ingrid Nagl

In this therapeutic Open Floor based workshop we explore our relationship to the earth & our ecosystem as a foundation to all other relationships we're engaged with. As we move deeply into the wisdom of our individual and collective embodied memory, we may discover and shed layers of ancestral, cultural, bodily or emotional trauma that kept us separate from what
we yearn for and belong with.

"True belonging depends upon our reciprocity with the environment in which we are embedded, and unto which we are indebted" (Toko-Pa)

Option 2

Seeing Myself in Your Presence

with Alexandra Schefner

The practice of Authentic Movement can be considered a therapeutic self-exploration and movement meditation based on the collaboration between a mover and a witness. In the presence of a compassionate witness the mover closes their eyes and listens to the inner stirrings, expressing them in spontaneous movement impulses. The experience is then digested through reflective practices of writing & drawing, and shared through mindful speech.

Option 3

The Underscore: Space for You

with The Contact Improv Team

This dance-space is an opportunity to move with your own process in solitude or to reach out and make contact with others.

It is a held container for integration, reflection, play, tenderness or resourcing to happen. It is an opportunity to digest -or be with- all that you hold at this point in the festival.

The session will open with a circle, be performed in silence, and close with an opportunity to harvest and share the fruits of your experience with community.

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra
5:15 - 6pm
Opportunity to rest and integrate your day.
Bring yoga mat and any supports like cushions and blankets

EVENING ENTERTAINMENT

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EVENING EVENT

Integration Ceremony 7:00pm - 8pm

This is a space to integrate, process, rest and digest. An evening to symbolise the individual light of awareness and the collective light of our group body. You can expect a gentle time of inward reflection and energy restoration.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Topic: Creative Collaboration

8:00 - 9:00pm

Last years panel was so interesting for those who attended, we're doing it again! More than ever today we need to find ways to work closely and creatively with one another. Spend an evening in conversation with creative powerhouses, Jo Woods, Damara Slyvester and Rata Gordon. Listen as these 3 facilitators reflect on their workshop at CDA: Creative Disruption and more generally upon the potentials and challenges of Creative Collaboration. Bring any questions you may have.

MONDAY

Day 5

9:30-12:30

CLOSING CEREMONY

In our closing session, we will dance and move together as a whole community and harvest the gems that have emerged for each of us during the festival. This session is designed to help us integrate our experiences, insights, visions and dreams for possible next steps. It will also be a time to celebrate and lean into the support of new and renewed collegial relationships as we prepare to re-enter the world, empowering each other to hold fast to our visions, hopes and dreams, and bring a sense of grounded closure to our time together.

CONSCIOUS DANCE AOTEAROA / NZ

TIMETABLE

Nov 28 -02 Dec '24

THURSDAY

7:30pm - EVENING ENTERTAINMENT (2-3 hours)

FRIDAY Day Two

7-7:45am - Gentle wake up and stretch

Morning Yoga (optional) Bring a Yoga mat if you have one. Some provided.

9:30am -12:30pm - SESSION ONE

​Rest & Integrate: Yoga - Yin & Nidra 5:15pm - 6:00pm

An opportunity to relax & integrate the day. Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets if you have them.

SATURDAY

Morning Yoga Bring mat if you have one. Some mats provided.

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra 5:15-6pm Opportunity to rest and integrate your day Bring mats and supports such as cushions, blankets if you have them.

with Douglas Drummond

SUNDAY

Gentle Morning Wake Up

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra 5:15 - 6pm Opportunity to rest and integrate your day. Bring yoga mat and any supports like cushions and blankets

MONDAY

FRIDAY
Day Two

Morning Yoga (optional)
Bring a Yoga mat if you have one. Some provided.

Rest & Integrate: Yoga - Yin & Nidra
5:15pm - 6:00pm

An opportunity to relax & integrate the day.
Please bring any supports such as a yoga mat, cushions, blankets if you have them.

Morning Yoga
Bring mat if you have one. Some mats provided.

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra

5:15-6pm

Opportunity to rest and integrate your day
Bring mats and supports such as cushions, blankets if you have them.

Rest & Integrate - Yoga - Yin & Nidra
5:15 - 6pm
Opportunity to rest and integrate your day.
Bring yoga mat and any supports like cushions and blankets