Classes
Fine Lines is a community of people who engage in contemporary dance practices that challenge, inspire and positively nourish them.
In 2025 Fine Lines Friday classes for those already engaged in Fine Lines continue. In Term 1 classes vary.
When we’re at Dancehouse, the class is split into 2 groups: an early 9.30-11am group and a late 11.15am-12.45pm group. However, we're not always at Dancehouse on Fridays. We then try to use Elevation Dance Studios. At these times class is combined and runs from 10-12 noon. This is a big class and isn’t open to new dancers generally.
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.
Click below for Term 1 and Term 2 2025 Dates and venues
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 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 (150 Princes Street Carlton) unless otherwise stated.
Click below for Term 1 and Term 2 2025 Dates and venues
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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