2015 Unitec Dance Performances & Workshops

UNITEC PRESENTS …

1. CHOREOFEST Season
2. Dance Teachers Workshop – with Michael Parmenter
3. Dance Winter Workshop – for students

2015 CHOREOFEST SEASON

Unique and innovative student works from New Zealand's leading contemporary dance and choreography programme, offering a fresh and varied perspective on art, life and performance through the eyes of Unitec's contemporary dance students. Due to the popularity of our school matinee performances and limited seating, we advise booking early to avoid disappointment.
Year 2 Dance CHOREOFEST 9-12 September
School Matinee: Friday, 11 September @12.30pm @Unitec Dance Studios
Approx: 90 minutes (includes Q&A after performance)

Year 3 Dance CHOREOFEST 23-26 September
School Matinee: Friday, 25 September @12.30pm (selling fast) @Unitec Dance Studios
Approx: 90 minutes (includes Q&A after performance)

Cost: $5 per student/teacher (minimum group size 10 ). Places limited. First come, first served.
Payment: Your school will be invoiced. When making your booking please supply a name and email address to send invoice.
Conditions: School will be charged full cost of original booking for changes/cancellation within 30 days of show.
Book now: prees@unitec.ac.nz or call (09) 815 4321 ext. 7250

2015 DANCE TEACHERS WORKSHOP – Joint Concern: Dance Teaching as a Relational Practice
Facilitated by leading choreographer/teacher Michael Parmenter
Dance teaching has traditionally been an authoritarian practice, entailing a determined body of knowledge that must be embodied and mastered by the dancer. Recent pedagogical trends have seen a shift to student-based learning. This gives ample room for individual creativity, but often results in the dancer failing to move beyond entrenched mannerisms and habits.

In the workshop Joint Concern, we will work with a relational-approach to dance training that combines the best of the earlier models by putting the pedagogical emphasis on the primacy of the dialogue between student and teacher. Encouraging dancers to actively participate in their own learning inaugurates the notion of personal practice and also prepares them for more collaborative approaches to dance making.
We will pursue the notion of the relation further with the idea of the dancer’s Five Relations in the learning and performing of dance: the relationship to self (somatics), the relation to space, the relation to others (other dancers and the audience), the relation to music, and the relation to the tradition (the language of contemporary dance).

Particular attention will be given to recent developments in contemporary dance technique, the incorporation of somatic principles in dance training and an introduction to fundamental principles of contemporary partnering.

Venue: Unitec Dance Studios, Entry 1, Carrington Rd, Unitec Performing & Screen Arts, Mt Albert, Auckland
Dates: 7-9 July 2015 9.30am - 4.30pm daily
Cost: $250.00 for 3 days or $100.00 per day
Book now: prees@unitec.ac.nz or call (09) 815 4321 ext. 7250

2015 DANCE WINTER WORKSHOP
Due to high demand, we advise booking early

The workshop will introduce participants to the Unitec Contemporary Dance Programme as well as prepare any prospective applicants for the audition process in October 2015. The workshop will include daily classes in Contemporary and Ballet Techniques, Choreography and Creativity, Partnering, Question and Answer sessions, showings and a shared lunch.

Preference: Year 12 &13 with at least 2 years dance experience. We highly recommend that students attend all three days.

Dates: 7-9 July, 2015 @9:00am - 3:30pm
Venue: Unitec Dance Studios, Entry 1 Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland
Cost: $120 (3 days), $50 per day

Limited places so book now!
To register: prees@unitec.ac.nz or call (09) 815 4321 ext. 7250

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