PROGRAMME
Five days of conscious dance bliss.
2021's programme will be announced later this year.
Here's 2020's line up for a taster of the amazing calibre of teachers who offer workshops at CDA
Select from a range of amazing workshops each day or choose to relax in the lush Riverside environment.
(Please note that due to Covid this timetable may change and a confirmed schedule will be published before the end of June).
FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2020
12:30 - 3pm: Arrive & check in between these times
3 - 4pm: Mihi Whakatau & Opening Ceremony followed by introductory group dance facilitated by Chloe Loftus & Hester Phillips
4pm - 6pm: Session One
Workshop Option One
Hester Phillips - Soft Landing (Dance Movement Therapy / Open Floor)
Workshop Option Two
Kaia Hawkins - Ko Te Pu ( Open Floor/ Ecstatic Dance)
6pm: Dinner, followed by time to chill out and/or socialise.
SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2020
7 - 7:45am: Jeanette Ida - Awakening the Body - Deep Stretch (Yoga/Meditation)
7:30 - 9am: Breakfast
9:30am - 12:30pm: SESSION ONE
Workshop Option One
Chloe Loftus - Conscious Contact (Contact Improvisation / Somatic Dance / Performance)
Workshop Option Two
Laya Hawthorne - The Minded Body & the Embodied Mind (Dance Movement Therapy)
Workshop Option Three
Sybille Feint - Embodied Relating - Intimacy in Motion (Open Floor)
12:30 - 2pm: LUNCH
2pm - 2:45pm
Jeanette Ida - Rest and Integrate (Yoga Nidra/Meditation/Sound Healing)
3 - 5pm: SESSION TWO
Workshop Option One
Workshop Option Two
Kaia Hawkins - Taku rekereke, taku turangawaiwai (Open Floor / Ecstatic Dance)
Anna Groves - Call & Response (NVC / Embodied Improvisation / Choreography)
7:30pm: PERFORMANCE SHARING
Collaborative performances by the participants of today's workshops 'Conscious Contact' (Chloe Loftus) & 'Call & Response' (Anna Groves)
8:30 - 10:15pm: SATURDAY NIGHT SWEAT - Hester Phillips (Open Floor / Ecstatic Dance)
SUNDAY 22nd NOVEMBER 2020
7 - 7:45am: Jeanette Ida - Awakening the Body - Deep Stretch (Yoga/Meditation)
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12:30pm: SESSION ONE
Workshop Option One
Jan Jeans - The Compass of the Soul (Open Floor)
Workshop Option Two
Rata Gordon - Potency and Flow (Open Floor and Arts Therapy)
Workshop Option Three
Bex Deva - Movement Meditation (Nia/Yoga)
12:30 - 2pm: LUNCH
2pm - 2:45pm
Jeanette Ida - Rest and Integrate (Yoga Nidra/Meditation/Sound Healing)
3 - 5pm: SESSION TWO
Workshop Option One
Workshop Option Two
Sybille Feint - Enter Being (Open Floor)
Workshop Option Three
Caybin Sturgess - Sound Healing Meditation
5:30pm - 7pm: DINNER
8pm: LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE JAM
Bring all our conscious dance styles to the floor with live music from Rabbit Hole. Their percussive jam will see our last night together in full flow.
MONDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2020
7 - 8am: Jeanette Ida - Deep Stretch/Yoga
7:30 - 9am: BREAKFAST
9:30am - 12pm: SESSION ONE
Laya Hawthorne - Closing gathering - Alpha and Omega and Alpha Again (SomaSource)
12 - 12:30pm: CLOSING CIRCLE
12:30pm - 2pm: LUNCH & Clean Up
*Timetable may be subject to variation.