INDEPENDANCE Classes will run until December.
The schedule below will be regularly updated.
Class times vary -- please register with Kerryn for weekly advance schedules via email.

The term prices remain the same:
Single Class:  Adult $9/Student $7
(All Unitec students FREE)
Class Card:  Adult $80/Student $60 (10 classes)

 Please make all cheques payable to INDEPENDANCE – account payee only. Either post or pay on the day of class.

2010 classes will be held at Unitec Dance Studios, Gate 1, Carrington Rd, Pt Chevalier, Auckland until otherwise notified.

IndependANCE will co-join the morning M&B class with Year 2 Unitec students.

Saturday classes will be at:
UNITEC Dance Sudio 3, Carrington Road, Gate 1.

SCHEDULE 2010

NB Please note venues & times

IndependANCE is proud to be supported by the Creative New Zealand Arts Council and is in partnership with Unitec, Te Toki Haruru, DANZ and NZ Dance News for 2010.

For further information please contact the coordinator
Kerryn McMurdo - kerryn_mcmurdo@yahoo.co.nz or
021 876-428

TUTORS FOR 2010 include:

Jack Gray is a choreographer and dancer (Atamira Dance Collective / Jack Gray Dance)
and has taught for IndependANCE previously and also teaches in schools and at Unitec.

Kristian Larsen is an independent dance and performing artist and works with structured improvisation and its varying techniques for performance. Kristian is in the process of completing his Masters, which is in the study of Improvisational performance

Kimbrian Bergh - Ballet fitness
Kim is a Senior tutor at Unitec and he has also been the Principal dancer for the South African Ballet Company. Kim's classes are an easy and fun strengthening class, with the focus of the connection of the feet into the floor, hip flexibility and alignment, and using the 'Centre' work for maintaining dance fitness. Come along and keep up your training! It's a great class.

Megan Adams - Megan has worked with Ann Dewey, Sean Curham, Douglas Wright Dance Co, Commotion Co, Shona McCullagh, and many others! Is wellknown as choreographer also. Megan is the rehearsal director for the Douglas Wright dance company, and currently teaches contemporary at Tapac in the evening classes.

Kelly Nash - Kelly is a contemporary dancer and has worked with Atamira dance company, Douglas Wright dance company, Shona McCullogh, Fidget dance ompany Claire O’Neil and Curve dance collective to name a few. This is a contemporary dance class, influenced by Contact Care, a common sense approach to moving. Working with the relationship to gravity, embracing habitual movement, activating the body’s natural reflexes, moving into ease and comfort and supporting the body’s efficiency through space. Classes are contemporary with a somatic approach.

Class Levels
All IndependANCE classes are professional, but have varying levels for all participants.

BALLET
Open level – Barre and centre work with travelling exercises.

CONTEMPORARY
Monday classes are Advanced level, Friday classes are Intermediate-Advanced level.

M & B - Open level
Muscle & Bone – warm ups for workshop, external space training in class.
Mind & Body – performance techniques, internal space training, workshop focus.

Yoga - Open Level
Felicity Molloy brings together yoga practice methods of Iyengar teacher Peter Thomson, with dancers' needs to situate themselves inside their bodily practice - a great way of getting back into your body. Do come along and enjoy these sessions while Felicity is in Auckland!