Monday, December 6, 2010

December News























December
Wholefoods Food of the World Festival  

Wednesday 3 December (FREE)
6 - 9pm. Great nite of music, dance and yummy food.
2 Baylie Pl. Geelong
Wild Moves will be performing for a 45 minute set. The idea is to get people up and dancing, so lots of street music rhythms: Kpanlogo, Calypso, Rhumba. Please give your name to Jacqui if you would like to perform. Wear a Wild Moves Tshirt. Or just come along and be there enjoying the night.
 
High Tide Festival  
Saturday, 4 December (FREE) 
– all classes are geared towards.... 
Street Parade @ 11am. Meet at Point Danger car park. 
10.00am to assemble and practice/learn rhythms and grooves and decorate truck.
The drumming rhythm will be Calypso.
Wear Hidden depths T-shirt. Please collect from Julie Dyer or the Surf Coast Shire or give your size and name to Jacqui one week before the parade. 
Anyone can drum as long as you call/text me before 9am. If you are dancing behind the truck, please wear runners. 
Great photos at the below site http://www.petermarshallphotography.com/0-HighTiDeFestival-20101204/index.html 
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/12/street-paradehigh-tide-festivalsaturday.html

Wild Moves interactive performance on the Saturday 1.00 – 2.00pm. The Esplanade. Torquay. Please wear any of your Hidden Depths Tshirts and anything else you care to adorn yourself with!! Tell your friends and family to come and watch or join in.Drums available.
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/12/elephant-walkhigh-tide-festival-2010.html

Saturday nite 8.00pm will be our Circles on Waves - a remake from WearArtrageous for down on the Front Beach. All dancers wear white (light side of the Moon) and singers/drummers wear black (dark side of the Moon) Wear your Moon headdress/pendant or ask Jacqui how to make one 
Great photos and blogs at:
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/12/circles-on-waveshigh-tide-festival-2010.html
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/09/wearartrageouswild-moves11-september.html

Cowrie market Sunday 19 December (Free) 
2.00 – 3.00pm End of Gilbert St, The Esplanade. 
Wild Moves interactive song, drum and dance performance. Wear your Wild Moves Tshirt

Summer Solstice 22 December (Free)
8.30pm Cosy Corner. End of Bell and Esplanade. 

Join us to celebrate the end of the year and the middle of Summer. 
Bring your wishes for the following year and any homegrown flowers to place on our wreath that will be taken out to the Ocean. BYO instruments, rugs, chairs, picnic wear white if you want to. Come at 6.30pm for a byo BBQ picnic. Check out last years beautiful evening.
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2009/12/summer-soltice-2009.html

Wild Moves at Point Danger 26 December 2010 – 7 January 2011. 7.30pm onwards.
Drum and Dance Circle on the beach near Drainos, follow the concrete path down to the beach. End of the Esplanade behind the last round about. . BYO drum or book before 7pm on the nite for a hire drum $5.
Donation to Trokosi Project for homeless women in Ghana.


2011
January
Night Jar Market every Thursday nite, Spring Creek Common, Torquay. Just before the bridge on the Great Ocean Rd.
Wild Moves will be performing on 20 Jan during the Full Moon when it is rising, so we will run our show, include some audience participation and then run our Full Moon ritual including fire twirlers. So dancers and drummers please bring wear your White Wild Moves Tshirt, or plain white costume, headress or pendant.
If you want to perform in the African repertoire please come to classes on Tuesday nites and/or our Wild Moves at Point Danger to rehearse.

Universal Grooves 8 January, 7.30 - 9.30pm Bellbrae Hall, 90 School Rd. Bellbrae
Vikingo de Jerez Spanish Flamenco dance and music with local support act The Sirens  and The Sailors
Not to be missed. An interactive performance with drumming, beatbox, Oud and Flamenco dance
Bookings - Jacqui 0409 025 062
http://www.myspace.com/vikingodejerez

Wild Moves workshops
Classes commenced again 
Tuesday 11 January
Dance: 6.00 - 7.30pm
Drumming: 7.30 - 9.00pm $15/17 or grab a Wild Moves card 5 casual classes @ $70

Cowrie market Sunday 16 January (Free) 
2.00 – 3.00pm End of Gilbert St, The Esplanade. Wear your Wild Moves Tshirt
Wild Moves interactive song, drum and dance performance.

Rhythm of Africa. Werribee Zoo details to follow.....
 
February
Pako Fest Saturday 26 February (Free)

12noon Street Parade. 
Assemble at 11.00am. Details to follow.......
http://www.pakofesta.com.au/

Full Moon Gathering Friday 18 February (Free)
7.30pm onwards. See details below
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/11/full-moon-gathering22-november.html
Cowrie market Sunday 20 February (Free) 
2.00 – 3.00pm End of Gilbert St, The Esplanade. 
Wild Moves interactive song, drum and dance performance. Wear your Wild Moves Tshirt
March
Aries Open Mic Festival
18, 19, 20 March
Email jacqui@wildmoves.com   if you want to participate. Details to follow.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SL_0xPWvPo
http://www.aireysinlet.com.au/music/
Cowrie market Sunday 20 March
(Free) 
2.00 – 3.00pm End of Gilbert St, The Esplanade. Wear your Wild Moves Tshirt
Wild Moves interactive song, drum and dance performance.
April
Apollo Bay Music Festival
for busking – 8, 9, 10  April.
Email jacqui@wildmoves.com   if you want to participate. 

Details to follow......
http://apollobaymusicfestival.com/index1.php
Universal Grooves one Saturday in April with DEMIR ALIU. Details to follow.......
Cowrie market Sunday 17 April

2.00 – 3.00pm End of Gilbert St, The Esplanade. Wear your Wild Moves Tshirt
Wild Moves interactive song, drum and dance performance.  
May
Bellbrae Mayfair – Sunday May. Details to follow.....
June
 
Awakening Wild Moves cultural drum and dance experience in Ghana
Living Memory cultural drum and dance experience to Ethiopia
July 

African Diaspora song, drum and dance Camp, Eumerella, Anglesea
Special African guest artists from Guinea
August
September

WearArtrageous
Anglesea Music Festival
Cowrie Market
October
Aireys Fair
Cowrie Market
Universal Grooves - Thula Sana from South Africa
November
Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival
Cowrie Market
December  
High Tide festival
Cowrie Market
Summer Solstice 
Yours in Rhythm and Movement....Jacqui xxx
 
Wild Moves International
Rooted to the Earth and connected to the Universe…

Director: Jacqui Esi Tweba Dreessens
Mobile: +61 4 09025062
Email: jacqui@wildmoves.com
Web site: www.wildmoves.com
http://www.wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/

1 comment:

  1. Hi my name is Jessica Padula and I am a 4th year Primary Education student doing a research project with Jacqui Dreessens, on dance teaching strategies when working with community dance.
    Wild Moves is a community based dance group, therefore not all members of the community undertaking the dance component of the classes have had dance training prior to Wild Moves. Dance classes are very structured in order for participants to learn progressively. We start with a warm up, then the introduction of steps and movement phrases, followed by a practice as a group and with the drummers.
    “The drummers play a crucial role instructing dancers and orchestrating the changes between movement patterns. Dancers learn to dance by dancing ….. and listening to the drums” (Erket, 2003, pp 145).
    Drumming patterns give support and structure to the routines and therefore are used as a focal point for teaching lessons, i.e when learning new movement phrases, Jacqui would get us to practise the taught movement whilst she played the bell, along with the drums to see whether we could identify where changes in the movement were required by the accents and pauses in the drumming patterns.
    The Wild Movers study and perform traditional African dances and rituals.
    “Rituals provide a repeatable routine to connect body, mind and spirit” (Erket, 2003 ,pp 39).
    The African routines they study are part of the living tradition from the community that Jacqui has visited in West Africa, mostly in Ghana.
    The structure of the routines guide Jacqui, to scaffold learning to her dancers' abilities and their needs. For example, in the third week of learning ‘Gota’, Jacqui continued to break down the movements in certain phrases to assist dancers to remember steps and their sequence. If we forgot the next movement Jacqui would give us a clue in order to ‘jog’ our memories and help us figure out what the next movement pattern was. This helped us with our memory retention.
    In order to perform a learnt routine/dance, a combination of teacher and peer guidance ensures that the routines are executed with precision. Each class that Jacqui took, not only did she make us learn the routine but she also made us work on a specific area relevant to the routine. Whether that be technique to perform a movement, or performing the dance with a certain movement quality to capture the African essence of the dance.
    During warm up, Jacqui would introduce the focus for that lesson, so she could see, whilst in the warm up circle, who’s technique needed work, and to get us in the zone to transmit the focus of warm up into the movements of the lesson.
    “Being able to reconstruct the incorrect technique can often help in perfecting the correct technique” (Weikart, 2003, pp 30). Therefore by focussing on areas that need work, awareness and practise ensures that dances can be executed safely in correct body alignment and correct dynamic quality that links it to African dance technique. The movements are very earth bound but reaching for the sky. So movement combinations of contraction, release, extension and suspension makes for a great fitness strength.
    whilst learning ‘Bima’ and ‘Djembe’ dance, I was told to just ‘jump in’ and learn the routine while being in it!! The Wild movers instructed me on the sequence of movements and corrected me, whilst in the act of dancing. This helped me to remember the routine.
    Therefore by consulting, discussing and learning from one another and by the guidance and direction of Jacqui,our teacher, we were able to successfully perform traditional African dance which form the technical repertoire of Wild Moves on the Surfcoast.
    REFERENCES:
    Erket J, 2003 Harnessing the Wind- The Art of Teaching Modern Dance, Human Kinetics, South Australia
    Jay, Danielle M. & Kassing, G 2003, “Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design: Comprehensive K-12 Dance Education”, Human Kinetics, USA
    Weikart, Phyllis. S 2003, Teaching Movement and Dance : a Sequential Approach to Rhythmic Movement, High Scope Press, Michigan

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