What We Offer
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What we offer - In Person
One-on-one NDIS support involve one of our facilitators taking a participant through “Found in Translation” methods outdoors. Sessions usually last 90mins, but timing can be altered to suit schedule, level or purpose.
Contact us if you’d like to find out more.
What We Offer - Online
We are currently providing;
Live Online Yoga on a pay-what-you-can basis. This is an open class for anybody to join held from 7:30-9am Mondays and Wednesdays.
Online Found in Translation for young people living with disability on Saturdays between 9-10:30am, then 11:30 to 1pm. Participants can join both or just one session.
If you’re interested in joining either of these sessions, contact us and we’ll send you a google calendar invite which has all the info you need to join. We’re always happy to help with technical issues.
Our Session Types
Found in Translation
A method developed by Dean Walsh, Found in Translation (FIT) is an accessible contemporary dance / movement / theatre and performance-making workshop for people living with and without disability. It’s inclusive of participants who consider themselves to be practicing professional or non-professional artists and/or arts-workers and teachers. The FIT method draws from a vast array of practices Dean has formulated over his 3 decade career as a dancer, choreographer, performer, educator, writer, set designer and visual artist. Andrew Batt-Rawden brings his own creative professional skills to the mix as a composer and educator.
PrimeOrderly
PrimeOrderly is a complex system of movement and choreographic / compositional and educational methodologies, communication and research into new ares of scientific and other contexts of embodied environmental research - in particular “extended cognition” with a focus on marine experiences and understandings. PrimeOrderly workshops are inclusive of all bodies and minds, allowing everyone to engage in environmental awareness, whilst developing an embodied appreciation of biodiversity, unique ways of moving, composing and “performing” and celebrating more than human otherness.
Creative Agency, Music Composition Focus
We encourage students to make instruments from found natural objects, as well as using their own voices, to discover timbre, rhythm, pitch, dynamics and composition, as well as relate sound to movement. There’s never a dull moment, and learners are always fascinated when listening with intention and working with stillness. Sessions are designed to be engaging, relevant and assessable and are tailored to the audience, be they 8 years old or 60 years old, neurodiverse to neurotypical, living with or without disabliity.
Stretch, Breath and Environmental Mindfulness
These classes are appropriate for people with or without any prior experience in yoga or other forms of deeper stretching, coordination and toning. They are inclusive in this way intentionally as a means to embrace, participate in and promote more diverse and deeper mutual learning. A class where not everything the teacher says is the only point of, or focus on, how all of us learn in very different ways - whether we're experienced experts or first timers. Whether we are neurotypical or neurodivergent. Whether we live with all our physical and intellectual faculties, or have wonderful variations on these.
Adult Contemporary Dance
Classes are tiered for beginners to professionals. These techniques can develop striking and resonant performative communication skills within a given choreographic treatment of specific ideas you may be currently excavating. Whilst up-skilling in these areas you'll also learn more about elemental considerations that go a long way to improving performance capacity and rigour - breath, gravity, temporal modalities and complex spatial awareness. You will also develop more sophisticated neurological pathways throughout your body.