OPEN TRAINING: BODY WEATHER
STAGE 1 Emerging from Lockdown Update
In the interim before we can get back to the studio, Gretel will lead training at Mayer Park in Thornbury on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm, if it's NOT raining. Please come and join in if you are climbing the walls and feel the need to get out of the house!
Meet at corner of Normanby Ave and Leinster Grove at 3.30pm. We will do a short warm-up followed by MB training - a series of exercises to music which increase your flexibility, strength and coordination. It's fun and challenging and a great workout for dancers or other kinds of performers, or just a creative way to get fit. We will start gently because we are returning from a break. Wear runners and comfy clothing with layers to suit the weather. We will ensure there is a distance of at least 1.5 metres between us at all times.
Suggested donation $5-10
Please contact Gretel if you want to check it's on.
TERM 2, 2020 COVID-19 UPDATE
I hope you're all well and staying sane by dancing!
Here's the predictable update: Dancehouse is closed until further notice and as we are not able to gather in groups, the planned Term 2 Body Weather training series is unfortunately cancelled. Hopefully we will be back in the studio for Term 3.
You can keep in touch via
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/opentrainingbodyweather
Body Weather is an ideal physical training for any performer, or just a fantastic creative way to get fit. Developed by Japanese dancer Min Tanaka, perhaps the most well-known of Body Weather practices is 'MB' (Mind-Body, Muscle-Bone or Music-Body). MB is like a dancers' version of aerobics: a series of exercises traveling across space, to music. MB increases cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and co-ordination, in ever evolving combinations to twist your brain and extend your neurological pathways (there’s nothing quite like it!) Other aspects of Body Weather include perceptual tasks to heighten sensory awareness and use of imagery to evoke a vast range of embodied qualities. Gretel’s training sessions typically consist of a loosening warm-up, MB work-out and perceptual or imagery tasks leading into improvisation.
Participants can work at their own level, though some fitness is recommended. Dance experience is not necessary. The 'open' bit means that the facilitator participates too. Focus is on body awareness in a fun and exploratory atmosphere.
Gretel Taylor has taught performance, dance and live art at Victoria University, Monash University and RMIT, and presents guest lectures and workshops at many conferences and events. In 2019 she taught postgraduate students at Deakin University's Art and Performance. She continues to lead Open Training: Body Weather at Dancehouse, Carlton, as well as occasional outdoor workshops exploring Body Weather and site-responsive performance making. Gretel participated in Min Tanaka's intensive workshops in Japan in 1999 and 2000, and since then Body Weather has strongly informed her dance practice. She is a core artist of Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), a site-responsive group that use Body Weather as their underpinning method.
In the interim before we can get back to the studio, Gretel will lead training at Mayer Park in Thornbury on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm, if it's NOT raining. Please come and join in if you are climbing the walls and feel the need to get out of the house!
Meet at corner of Normanby Ave and Leinster Grove at 3.30pm. We will do a short warm-up followed by MB training - a series of exercises to music which increase your flexibility, strength and coordination. It's fun and challenging and a great workout for dancers or other kinds of performers, or just a creative way to get fit. We will start gently because we are returning from a break. Wear runners and comfy clothing with layers to suit the weather. We will ensure there is a distance of at least 1.5 metres between us at all times.
Suggested donation $5-10
Please contact Gretel if you want to check it's on.
TERM 2, 2020 COVID-19 UPDATE
I hope you're all well and staying sane by dancing!
Here's the predictable update: Dancehouse is closed until further notice and as we are not able to gather in groups, the planned Term 2 Body Weather training series is unfortunately cancelled. Hopefully we will be back in the studio for Term 3.
You can keep in touch via
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/opentrainingbodyweather
Body Weather is an ideal physical training for any performer, or just a fantastic creative way to get fit. Developed by Japanese dancer Min Tanaka, perhaps the most well-known of Body Weather practices is 'MB' (Mind-Body, Muscle-Bone or Music-Body). MB is like a dancers' version of aerobics: a series of exercises traveling across space, to music. MB increases cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and co-ordination, in ever evolving combinations to twist your brain and extend your neurological pathways (there’s nothing quite like it!) Other aspects of Body Weather include perceptual tasks to heighten sensory awareness and use of imagery to evoke a vast range of embodied qualities. Gretel’s training sessions typically consist of a loosening warm-up, MB work-out and perceptual or imagery tasks leading into improvisation.
Participants can work at their own level, though some fitness is recommended. Dance experience is not necessary. The 'open' bit means that the facilitator participates too. Focus is on body awareness in a fun and exploratory atmosphere.
Gretel Taylor has taught performance, dance and live art at Victoria University, Monash University and RMIT, and presents guest lectures and workshops at many conferences and events. In 2019 she taught postgraduate students at Deakin University's Art and Performance. She continues to lead Open Training: Body Weather at Dancehouse, Carlton, as well as occasional outdoor workshops exploring Body Weather and site-responsive performance making. Gretel participated in Min Tanaka's intensive workshops in Japan in 1999 and 2000, and since then Body Weather has strongly informed her dance practice. She is a core artist of Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), a site-responsive group that use Body Weather as their underpinning method.