Classes
Fine Lines is a community of people who engage in contemporary dance practices that challenge, inspire and positively nourish them.
In 2024 Fine Lines Friday classes for those already engaged in Fine Lines continue. In Term 3 class runs from 10am - 12pm. Class is at an intermediate level and works for awareness, strength, balance, coordination, musicality, memory, creativity and artistry. We use varied styles and approaches such as improvisation, contemporary dance, ballet basics, kinesiology and other somatic techniques.
Dates for Fine Lines Fridays
Where: All classes are at Dancehouse unless otherwise stated. Dancehouse is located at 150 Princes St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia.
Term 1 – 8 classes
Fri 2 Feb-22 Mar
Term 2 – 11 weeks
Fri 19 April-28 Jun
Term 3 10 weeks: Fri 19 July -20 Sep
Tern 4 11 weeks: Fri 11 Oct - 20 Dec
Fine Lines Foundations
Tuesdays 10 - 11.30 am.
From 2024 Foundations 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 dancers shed past dance expectation, and learn to appreciate and luxuriate in their dancing body of today. Fine Lines Foundations is the first step or a gentle continuation in your journey to develop your capacity as a mature dancer and artist as dancers and as artist. Anyone from Fridays may attend, but this class essentially takes its time to drill down into the FL philosophical and pedagogical approach to dance and dance making.
When: Tuesdays 10 - 11.30am
Where: All classes are at Dancehouse unless otherwise stated. Dancehouse is located at 150 Princes St, Carlton North, Victoria, Australia.
Term 1 - 9 weeks
Tues 30 Jan- 26 Mar
Term 2 - 11 weeks
Tues 16 Apr - 25 Jun
Term 3 10 weeks: 16 July - 17 September
Term 4 11 weeks: 8 Oct - 17 Dec
Fees: $15 per class if paying for the term; $20 casual attendance.
Please note that for safe dance reasons, in order to participate in Fine Lines productions or special opportunities, dancers must engage regularly in either Friday or Tuesday classes.
A bit about our training:
Fine Lines focuses on inclusion and developing a pedagogy where every body has equal access to movement propositions.
While several Fine Lines dancers were professional dancers or professionally trained, many others come from diverse movement backgrounds such as yoga, pilates, creative dance, improvisation, physical theatre and circus.
Classes develop skills that all dancers need: proprioception, kinesthetic and spatial awareness, balance, control, agility, articulation, flexibility, co-ordination, strength, endurance, memory, musicality, creative expression and artistry, while pushing our dancers creatively to discover, invent or interpret ideas.
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.
Click on the button below to see two ‘exercises’: the first is about circular movements that increase in size and scale, using various body zones and parts. The second is focusing on the infinity symbol by isolated body parts, ten multiple body parts at the same time.
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