Class today is Contemporary Dance w/ Ngioka Bunda-Heath
Ngioka’s class is, at times, fast-paced to get dancers exploring the freedom of bodies and minds with good, old-fashioned foundational exercises that incorporate floorwork, traveling, improvisation, and choreographic movement phrases.
Class focuses on a sense of weight, movement ability, floorwork, and refined technique, and will include warm-up, skills exercises, improvisation, and cooldown. This class may include high-energy movement sequences and the use of technical terms.
About Ngioka Bunda-Heath
Ngioka Bunda-Heath is Wakka Wakka, Ngugi, and Birrpai. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, as the first Aboriginal Woman in dance. Ngioka has received the Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency and the Chloe Munro AO/Lucy Guerin Inc Independent Artist fellowship.
She worked for Bangarra Dance Theatre in “Rekindling” their youth education program; and is the First Peoples Partnership Coordinator at ChunkyMove. Ngioka has danced for Mariaa Randall, Sarah Aiken, Rebecca Jensen, Amrita Hepi and will for LGI in 2023. Ngioka’s choreographic work includes Blood Quantum, Birrpai- awarded Dance Best Duo/Ensemble at the Greenroom Awards, Bridge, and Footprints.
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This class is suitable for all levels.
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