About
A Friendly, inclusive dance class
Our classes are about peer support and community as well as dance. We usually start or end with time to meet, sit, drink tea or coffee and chat with people who understand from their own lived experience what you are are going through.
Classes are a friendly social environment where we strive to build a community as well as participate in dancing.
The dancing part of the session focuses on rhythm, balance, flexibility and control while inspiring you to use your imagination and creativity.
No prior experience or dancing partners necessary.
Based on the Dance for PD (Parkinson’s) method, this class is suitable for everyone.
The actual classes generally follow a structure like this:
Warm up (seated) - where we gently ease into movement, awakening the body and beginning to move beyond the day to day range of motion.
Seated exercises - these build from the warm up, to include arms, upper body, legs, feet and fun, where we explore musicality, rhythm and sometimes a bit of a story.
Standing exercises (barre) - when we come to standing, we begin by remaining behind our chair, or move to a barre to allow dancers to maintain support as they undertake similar movements that have been done seated in a standing position. Dancers are also able to undertake all these exercises seated as well.
Standing & moving (centre) - when dancers are ready, we can move away from the chairs and move through the space enjoying dancing alone, in groups or altogether. Again, this can all be done seated as well.
Warm down - we finish off class with a warm down, bringing the class together and into a more relaxed way of moving before we finish.
All our classes use wonderful and varied music, sometimes even live music and we encourage requests!
