UPDATES
Hi Wild Movers
Aireys Inlet Fair Saturday 30 October
Wild Moves performing at 1.30 – 2.30pm at the local primary school. Everyone invited to perform. Need to be in a Wild Moves T Shirt and costume. Call Jacqui for details: 0409 025 062 or you can just come along and participate in the interactive drum and dance.
Workshops now on Tuesdays and Thursdays. New prices.
Blocks of 5 @ $70 or 10 @ $110 or stay casual $15/17.
Tuesdays: Gota drumming & dance
Thursdays: Calypso drumming
Keep scrolling down to view classes
Coming Up
November
Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival 20 November
CERES Environement Park. 8 Lee St Brunswick
11.00am Kingfisher Boogie drum and dance workshop for an afternoon community ritual full of music, colour and song. Call Jacqui 0409025062, if you need a lift up from the Surf Coast.
http://www.ceres.org.au/node/168
December
High Tide Festival 4 December – all classes are geared towards our Wild Moves interactive performance on the Saturday 1.00 – 2.00pm. The Esplanade. Torquay
Street Parade @ 11am. Meet at Point Danger 10.00am to assemble
Saturday nite will be our Circles on Waves - a remake from WearArtrageous for down on the Front Beach. Jacqui will lead a singing workshop at the next Singing for Fun, 90 School Rd, Bellbrae Hall, Friday 26 November @ 6.00pm. Wildmovers are also encouraged to attend this workshop. Open to all singers and movers, no matter if you have danced or sung in your life before. It is all too much fun to be in it and celebrate our Festival at the Front Beach.
More details to follow.....
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/09/wearartrageouswild-moves11-september.html
Wild Moves at Point Danger 26 December 2010 – 8 January 2011.
Drumming workshops on the beach near Drainos. Torquay back beach. 7.30 – 9.00pm. $10.00
Followed by Drum and Dance Circle (Donation to Trokosi Project). Details to follow....
2011
January
Universal Grooves in January – To be announced.....
February
Pako Fest Saturday 26 February.
12noon Street Parade. Assemble at 11.00am.
Email: jacqui@wildmoves.com if you would like to participate. Details to follow.......
http://www.pakofesta.com.au/
Rhythm of Africa, Werribee Zoo.
One Sunday at 4.00 - 5.00pm.
Email: jacqui@wildmoves.com if you would like to participate. Details to follow.......
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/
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
DEMIR ALIU at Universal Grooves one Saturday in April. Details to follow.......
May
Bellbrae Mayfair Sunday 1 May.
Bellbrae PS School Rd Bellbrae.
Email: jacqui@wildmoves.com if you want to participate. Details to follow.....
Yours in Rhythm and Movement....Jacqui xxx
Wild Moves on the Surf Coast
Community drum and dance ensemble...if you can ride the swell, you can jump on the beat!
Wild Moves inspiration comes from indigenous cultures as a way of celebrating Mother Earth in all her mysteries of life through singing, drumming and dance theatre. We are a community group drawing from the African Diaspora and her ancient connection to ancestral spirit. We love getting together to support benefit gigs for celebrating cultural diversity, human rights and the environment. Jacqui and Immanuel Dreessens lead us in some fun events like High Tide Festival, Aireys Open Mic, Bellbrae Mayfair, WearArtrageous, Anglesea Music Festival, Cowrie Market, Rhythm of Africa, Pako Fest. Come and join us and jump on the beat or get us to play at your next Wild Moves party for kids, teenagers or the young 50 year olds reaching wisdom status.
To much fun! You name it we’ll create it!
Artistic director: Jacqui Dreessens
Mobile: 0409 025 062
Email: info@wildmoves.com
WORKSHOPS in AFRICAN DRUM and DANCE
Bellbrae Hall, 90 School Rd, Bellbrae, Surf Coast
Block of 5 workshops for $70 or a block of 10 for $110.
For on going classes or casual $15/17
4 week courses - start and finish new material together $70/65
Drummers welcome at the dance classes. Free to Wildmovers. Drum hire $5
TUESDAYS
6.00 - 7:30 pm Dance
Afro Stylin’ dance with a variety of traditional dances from across the Diaspora. Understand the beautiful gestural language of speaking with your body to live percussion. Be grounded in your pelvis so that your limbs can fly. Be prepared to sweat and groove in a group. Open to all levels and abilities.
7.30 – 9.00pm Drumming
Traditional stick drumming and djembe drumming techniques learning how the rhythms lock in and talk to each other in an ensemble group to communicate messages about the mystery of life. Suitable for beginners to master drummers.
THURSDAYS
7.30 – 8.30pm Song & Drum
Sing your song & beat your drum. A workshop for absolute beginners in drumming, singing & body percussion. Learn how the pulse of the rhythm travels in your body and expresses its melodious voice in a bath of vocal tones & rhythm.
8.30 – 9.30pm Drum & Dance circle
Gold coin donation for all drummers, dancers, singers & everyone else who wants to give it a go or drop in and listen. Revisit your rhythms, find your groove, jam with the Wildmovers. No set structure, whatever happens…..just rock up!
Cowrie Market drum and dance circle
Free. Every 3rd Sunday of the month from September to April, 2.00 – 3.00pm. Come join the Wildmovers, led by Jacqui & Immanuel in an interactive performance of song, drum & dance. Drums available. Good time to just have a go or stop and just check it out, as well as all the other home grown local arts, crafts and musicians. Join the drumming circle and join in the dance. Elephant Walk, The Esplanade, Torquay
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2009/11/wild-moves-on-surf-coast-cowrie-market.html
Full Moon drum and dance gathering
Free manifest the future you want by welcoming in the new energies. BYO fire twirling, drums, instruments, song, chair, water bottle, offering that can be released into the sea or earth. Please check the dates of the full moon and contact Jacqui for drum hire $5.
Cosy Corner at Sunset for picnic and setting up the seaweed circle. Ritual around 9pm or when the Moon is up. Park in bottom car park of Bell St and The Esplanade round about, Torquay. Bring your wishes for creating the future you want!!
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/10/full-moon-in-aries-23rd-october-7pm.html
Universal Grooves on the Surf Coast (Grooves nite)
October 30th, 7.30 - 9.30pm, Bellbrae Hall, 90 School Rd. Bellbrae. BYO drums. Interactive performance with THE PAN AFRICAN CHOIR from Melbourne.
Back to your African Roots Tour Ghana
12 June – 7 July, 2011
Experience the heart of the African Spirit by journeying into the Living Library of the Land of Gold. Rich in centuries of tradition and ritual, celebrate Africa’s way of life. Identify with their sense of place and belonging, their connection to ancestors, chiefs, Queen Mothers and community. Learn from the Masters, Elders and fetish priests with local cultural performing groups. Engage in your Naming ceremony, experience your Puberty Rite ritual. Sing, drum & dance your way into being. Prepare to learn something.... share something.
Now taking bookings
African Diaspora Camp
Eumerella, Great Ocean Rd. Anglesea
Friday 6.00pm 29th July – Sunday 3.00pm 31st July
A weekend celebration with lots of fun for the whole family. Cabins or camping, authentic African food. Journey through dance, rhythm and songs that harness community spirit from across the African continent and their influence on the New World. Experience ritual libation to Aboriginal and African ancestors and the release of Winter to welcome the Light. Fire twirling, story telling, drum circle bush camp fire, acrobatics, yoga, Thai Chi, massage, High life gospel singing, Gumboot body percussion, Rhythm Tap, Soukous, Afro Cuban or Brazillian, Afro-Jazz, Swing, Batchada, Salsa, Funk, Hip Hop and Afro-Contemporary. Evening performances and traditional drumming & dance by our international African special guest artists. Explore how the ancient African rhythms have crossed the oceans and are fusing on the Surf Coast.
Wild Moves International
Rooted to the Earth and connected to the Universe…
Get ready to dance and witness a feast of abundant traditional and popular street rhythms from across the African Diaspora with performers from Sth Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Australia. Call us to perform in festivals or run your workshops or interactive performances at kinder, primary & secondary schools, artist-in-residence programs, professional development seminars, team building activities, weddings, rites of passage, holiday programs across the wider community and into the corporate sector.
http://www.wildmoves.com/international/int_programs.html
"Rooted to the Earth and connected to the Universe, we help you find your wild moves....."
Mobile: 0409 025 062
Email: info@wildmoves.com
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