CONCIOUS DANCE AOTEAROA/NZ 2021 WORKSHOPS
Five days of conscious dance bliss.
Our 2022 programme will be announced July 2022.
Here's how our proposed 2021 programme looked to whet your appetite.....
This year we have a GREEN STREAM running through the festival. The Green Stream highlights conscious dance practices that bring to the fore our innate interconnectedness with the body of the earth. This was proposed by Geordie Jahner, Rosie Walford and Jacqui Chan.
Create your perfect festival. Select from the range of amazing workshop offerings each day or choose to relax in the lush Riverside environment.
THURSDAY 2nd DECEMBER 2021
12:30 - 3pm: Arrive & check in between these times
3pm - 4:30pm: Karanga & Opening Ceremony: A MOVING OPENING (facilitated by Conscious Dance teachers from around Aotearoa).
5:30pm - 7pm: DINNER
6:45pm - 7:30pm: SOUND BATH (Caybin Sturgess)
7:30pm - 9:30pm: THURSDAY NIGHT SWEAT. Bring all our conscious dance styles to the floor.
FRIDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2021
7 - 7:45am: Awaken Chakras with Sun Salutation Practice (Jeanette Ida)
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12:30pm: SESSION ONE
Workshop Option One
Claire Eccleston - Subterranean: What Lies Beneath (Midwifery / Yoga / Conscious Dance)
Workshop Option Two
Jaime Howell - To All My Relations (Open Floor / Mindfulness / Green stream)
Workshop Option Three
Rata Gordon - The Rebellious Body (Open Floor / Arts Therapy / Writing)
12:30 - 2pm: LUNCH
3 - 5pm: SESSION TWO
Workshop Option One
Sacha Paddy - Waterways (5 Rhythms / Open Floor / Green stream)
Workshop Option Two
Damara Sylvester - Uncivilise Me (Butoh / Physical Theatre)
Jen Hyde - Dancing Democracy (Contact Improvisation / Theatre of the Oppressed / Clowning)
5:30pm - 7pm: DINNER
6:25pm - 7:30pm: Rachel Maguire - Relax, Recharge, Restore. A Qi Gong Dance with Nature (Green stream)
7:40pm - 9:10pm: Jeanette Ida - Rhythm and Prana (Yoga / Trance Dance)
SATURDAY 4th DECEMBER 2021
7 - 7:45am: Jessica Devi - Luscious Somatic Stretch with Jessica Devi (Roll out of bed and into your body with this intuitively delicious morning stretch session.)
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12:30pm: SESSION ONE
Workshop Option One
Workshop Option Two
Workshop Option Three
Laya Hawthorne - Poetics (SomaSoul / Green stream)
12:30 - 2pm: LUNCH
1:45pm - 2:30pm: Jeanette Ida - Rest and Integrate Yogic Sleep (Yoga Nidra/Meditation/Sound Healing)
3 - 5pm: SESSION TWO
Workshop Option One
Jan Jeans -Strengthening our Roots ( Open Floor / Dance Movement Therapy / Green stream)
Workshop Option Two
Workshop Option Three
Chloe Loftus - The Goddess Array (Contact Improvisation / Somatics)
5:30pm - 7pm: DINNER
7:30 - 8pm: PERFORMANCE SHARING - Collaborative performances by the participants of today's workshops 'This is How We Pray' (Jessica Devi)
8pm - 10pm: SATURDAY NIGHT SWEAT - Bring all our conscious dance styles to the floor.
SUNDAY 5th DECEMBER 2021
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12:30pm: SESSION ONE
Workshop Option One
Hester Phillips - Unity In Diversity (Open Floor / Somatic Psychology)
Workshop Option Two
Workshop Option Three
Miriam Marler - Body Weather (Somatics / Dance improvisation / Butoh / Performance / Green Stream)
12:30 - 2pm: LUNCH
1:45pm - 2:30pm: Jeanette Ida - Rest and Integrate Yogic Sleep (Yoga Nidra / Meditation / Sound Healing)
3 - 5pm: SESSION TWO
Workshop Option One
Workshop Option Two
Sacha Paddy - Bird Medicine (5 Rhythms / Open Floor / Green stream)
Workshop Option Three
Contact Improvisation Underscore - Facilitated by Ben Bushell (Contact Improvisation)
5:30pm - 7pm: DINNER
6:45 - 8pm: GREEN STREAM HUI - Facilitated by Rosie Walford and Jacqui Chan, supported Geordie Jahner.
8 - 9:30pm: Caybin Sturgess - Sound Bath
MONDAY 6th DECEMBER 2021
7:00 -7:45am: Gentle Awakening Yoga (Jeanette Ida)
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12:00pm: A MOVING CLOSING - Geordie Jahner (Open Floor Founding Member)
12 - 12:30pm: CLOSING CIRCLE
12:30pm - 2pm: LUNCH & Clean Up
*Timetable may be subject to variation.