workshops and classes

 

Ongoing training and explorational workshops continue to this day. > The workshops combines Butoh, physho-physical training methods and Asian shamanistic trance dance. > The workshops incorporates a training methodology that aims to develop spontaneity, letting the body find its own individual language in psycho-physical expression. > Ultimately the dance becomes the expression of the body as it finds itself and its own movement. > This is a process to return to the body to the creative energy that inspires movement. > Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dancer attempts to expose elements of life through exploring the most fundamental physical and psychological elements.

 


On-going Workshops (text Tony on 0412 019 876)

Every WEDNESDAY in APRIL at SITEWORKS, Brunswick, 5pm - 7 pm

$100 (PayPal: tonyyap@netspace.net.au or bank transfer)

Classes will incorporating continuing training methodologies, experimentation and improvsation.
General focus includes the themes of 'effortless movements', 'quietitude' and 'stillness' and introducing different level of trance focuses. The common thread to shamanism would be the focus on trance states in movement aesthetics. The classes are ongoing and autonomous with your own style of physicality. We experiment different ideas and often end the class with a session of improvisation within a structured space.


 

 

 

 

activities/workshop history

   
 

> Workshops in dance and movements, at MAP Fest Melaka Arts & Performance Festival in Malaysia, India, Thailand and Indonesia annually, 2010-2019

> Workshops mix disciplines at Castlemaine Arts Festival in country Victoria, SAustralia, Mar 2015

> Workshops Pascitan, Java, Indonesia – Jan 2015

> Workshops at 5 festivals in Indonesia – Island Festivals 2010-2015 in Bangka Island, Bali, Malang, Yogyakarta and Bandung June 2010

> Centre for Practical Workshop and Professional Training in Performance in Ho Chi Minh City August 2009

> Word Dance Alliance Summit Speaker in Forum 'Dance in and of Diaspora', Brisbane July 2008

> Centre for Practical Workshop and Professional Training in Performance in Ho Chi Minh City August 2007 and September 2008

> Korea International Workshop Festival in Munmak 2006

> Mentorship program with Emily Cox/Red Shoes Dance Theatre, Alice Springs, Sept 2006

> Little Asia Creators Workshop, Korea Aug 2005 + Korea International Workshop Festival

> Workshops for actors and dancers, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

> Workshop for Drama Teachers, Melbourne University 2003

> Speaker in MAP (Movement and Performance) Symposium 1998 - Asian Connection

> In the panel for New Theatre in Australian Theatre Conference, VCA 1995.

> Conference on Art for the Future, Toyabunkah, Bali 1990

 
 

 

on-going classes

 
 
   
 
 

4 WEDNESDAYS

APRIL 2022
6,13,20,27 April

Siteworks, Brunswick

5 - 7 pm

$100

 

INQUIRIES:
Tony Mb: 0412 019 876

tonyyap@netspace.net.au

 
 
 
   
 

 
Email: tonyyap@netspace.net.au > Ph: +61 412 019 876
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