PERTH MOVES 2025

Contemporary dance workshop blending street styles focusing on technique while embracing the freedom of improvisation.

Contemporary dance workshop blending street styles focusing on technique while embracing the freedom of improvisation.

Enliven your body & spirit through guided practices of breath; engage through poetic movement scores and explore your originality. Alice’s approach is inclusive of all bodies, engages the imagination and cultivates pleasure.

Enliven your body & spirit through guided practices of breath; engage through poetic movement scores and explore your originality. Alice’s approach is inclusive of all bodies, engages the imagination and cultivates pleasure.

Afrokuduro is a dance style from Angola that mixes the kuduro style with afrohouse, it has a rich vocabulary with challenging and rhythmic movements.

Afrokuduro is a dance style from Angola that mixes the kuduro style with afrohouse, it has a rich vocabulary with challenging and rhythmic movements.

Throughout the week, workshop participants will join Bec through a series of highly joyous physical sessions exploring agency, participation and joy-making when collaborating with communities. The focus will be unpacking tools, tactics and learnings when facilitating physical, participatory opportunities for folks who don't feel 'the arts' is for them. Tristan and Bec will co-lead a final session at the end of the week sharing insight into their long-standing creative partnership and community engaged pedagogy.

Throughout the week, workshop participants will join Bec through a series of highly joyous physical sessions exploring agency, participation and joy-making when collaborating with communities. The focus will be unpacking tools, tactics and learnings when facilitating physical, participatory opportunities for folks who don't feel 'the arts' is for them. Tristan and Bec will co-lead a final session at the end of the week sharing insight into their long-standing creative partnership and community engaged pedagogy.

LOFTY is a dance improvisation technique that searches for your individual rhythm using a catalogue of images and tools that are developed in a social setting. As a group, we pass through building blocks of the technique before sharing in a cypher or jam setting.

LOFTY is a dance improvisation technique that searches for your individual rhythm using a catalogue of images and tools that are developed in a social setting. As a group, we pass through building blocks of the technique before sharing in a cypher or jam setting.

This workshop focuses on the mysterious, maddening and vital process in making dance and movement-based performance. Miguel will offer proposals to you to make short performances and then through a series of questions you become aware of what your tendencies and strategies are. The “aboutness” of your work is revealed to you through the way you make it. You will make, discuss, improvise and watch each other’s work. Miguel will distribute articles ranging from artist statements to critical theory to contribute additional voices to the mix. In Miguel’s experience, making work is a confrontation with your desires, habits, value system, politics, imaginative capacity and directorial strengths and weaknesses. Before you make anything, you are already something. Let’s find out what we can bring into the world. *Week 2 offers solo sessions with Miguel + studio space for eight artists from the Week 1 workshop. You will be able to book into the solo sessions after booking into the Week 1 workshop (until capacity is reached).

This workshop focuses on the mysterious, maddening and vital process in making dance and movement-based performance. Miguel will offer proposals to you to make short performances and then through a series of questions you become aware of what your tendencies and strategies are. The “aboutness” of your work is revealed to you through the way you make it. You will make, discuss, improvise and watch each other’s work. Miguel will distribute articles ranging from artist statements to critical theory to contribute additional voices to the mix. In Miguel’s experience, making work is a confrontation with your desires, habits, value system, politics, imaginative capacity and directorial strengths and weaknesses. Before you make anything, you are already something. Let’s find out what we can bring into the world. *Week 2 offers solo sessions with Miguel + studio space for eight artists from the Week 1 workshop. You will be able to book into the solo sessions after booking into the Week 1 workshop (until capacity is reached).

Free jam session facilitated by Li'i of Ta'alili.

Free jam session facilitated by Li'i of Ta'alili.

This workshop explores movement as an intentional, expressive act rooted in micro-movements and natural flocking behaviors to reveal both individuality and collective rhythm.

This workshop explores movement as an intentional, expressive act rooted in micro-movements and natural flocking behaviors to reveal both individuality and collective rhythm.

We will listen, tune, drive, build and celebrate our physical, sensory and imaginary selves. We will sweat, dream and make the space tremble with joy. We will move with the floor and fellow bodies – always in relation to something and someone, never alone.

We will listen, tune, drive, build and celebrate our physical, sensory and imaginary selves. We will sweat, dream and make the space tremble with joy. We will move with the floor and fellow bodies – always in relation to something and someone, never alone.

A class where we move, lie around, experiment, write, identify and practice weirdness together.

A class where we move, lie around, experiment, write, identify and practice weirdness together.