BODY WEATHER NAARM

This 7-week series of classes will be led by dancer and experienced Body Weather facilitator Gretel Taylor, aiming to extend physical range and experience your body in nuanced ways.

Sessions include an MB (Mind/Body, Muscle/Bone) physical workout; and/or groundwork exercises introducing imagery-led approaches to improvisation. You will increase fitness, strength and flexibility, and enter states of wonder.

Body Weather is a comprehensive approach to training and performance that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Aware of our context as we enter early Spring – ‘Guling’ and then true Spring or ‘Poorneet’ according to the Kulin Nation’s calendar for their Country we live on here in Naarm, let’s unfurl our fronds and get active and creative!

The term and philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980s in Japan by dancer Min Tanaka and further developed by proponents worldwide.

New and experienced Body Weather practitioners all welcome.

Gretel Taylor trained at Min Tanaka’s Body Weather Farm in Japan in 1999 and 2000 which informed her performance, teaching and research. Gretel developed an improvisational ‘locating’ practice as a mode of relating to place during her PhD (2009) and as an ongoing inquiry, with particular interest in ecological and decolonial lenses on site-responsive performance. She has taught Dance and Performance at Deakin, RMIT, Monash and Victoria University, as well as regularly at Dancehouse. She is lead Artist/Curator at BodyPlaceProject. www.bodyplaceproject.com