Fine Lines

Fine Lines is a mature dancer community that engages in weekly contemporary dance practices that challenge, inspire and satisfy. Fine Lines focuses on inclusion – where every body has equal access to movement propositions. Classes develop skills that all dancers need: proprioception, kinesthetic and spatial awareness, balance, control, agility, articulation, flexibility, coordination, strength, endurance, memory, musicality, creative expression and artistry, while pushing our dancers creatively to discover, invent or interpret ideas. Fine Lines pedagogy is constantly evolving, responsive to changes and developments in teaching innovations and the needs of the dancers enrolled in classes, shifting and morphing, ever alive to new possibilities. Class material is low impact with combinations and activities designed to help older dancers to reach their potential.

There are 2 entry points: Tuesdays and Fridays

Fine Lines Tuesday is the entry point to all things Fine Lines, a unique philosophical and pedagogical approach to dance and dance making. Through technical contemporary movement practices and creative explorations, our dancers learn to appreciate and luxuriate in their dancing body of today. Fine Lines Tuesday may be the first step or a gentle continuation in your journey as a mature dancer and artist.

Fine Lines Friday is at an intermediate level. We work to fine tune awareness, strength, balance, coordination, musicality, memory, creativity and artistry. We use varied styles and approaches such as improvisation, a range of contemporary, ballet and release techniques including somatic approaches. This class may include floor work.

Dr Katrina Rank is a leading Australian educator and dance artist, contributing to national and international movement education outcomes. A ballet and contemporary dancer by training, and an improviser by inclination, Katrina maintains a performance and teaching practice and received an Australian Dance Award for Services to Dance Education in 2018. As founder and lead teacher, Katrina continually reviews her teaching practice so that it is accessible while developing technical skills at an individual level, listening to the body, attending to its needs and following personal curiosity.