EveryBODY Dance

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Yes, every single body can dance!

Get moving with a series of outdoor movement sessions with dance artist Janette Hoe, designed especially for students with little or no dance experience. Through guided and playful explorations, we’ll connect to place, movement, and each other — building confidence, creativity and community. 

In this ongoing series, you'll participate in all eight workshop sessions. We aim to grow together over the sessions, and share a short group presentation in the final gathering.

Expressions of Interest: EOIs have now closed. But don’t worry! We also have weekly beginner dance classes too, on Tuesdays with Kai! And want to know the latest in our workshops? Sign up to our weekly eNewsletter ‘Followspot’. 

Dates: Every Saturday 11.30am - 1.30pm
2 August - 20 September

Venue: Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts and Cultural Building
(please note sessions 16 and 23 August will be at a different location TBC, still at Parkville Campus)

What to expect:

• Gentle warm-ups indoors, followed by guided movement sessions outdoors
• Activities to explore body – place connection using imagination, textural surfaces, sound, and visual cues
• Build your own movement vocabulary and discover personal stories from embodied memories and lived experiences
• A short, informal group presentation at the final session

What To Bring: Wear loose, comfortable layers. As we move and our bodies warm up, you may need to shed layers throughout the workshop.
 

About Janette Hoe

Janette Hoe is a dance artist whose work spans movement, materiality, gesture, and visual elements. She investigates how identity shifts through place and time, and explores the role of ritual in facilitating transformation.

Her practice is grounded in Butoh and a fusion of Eastern and Western somatic improvisation modalities. She sees dance as an open dialogue across cultures, drawing on her Malaysian-Chinese-Indonesian heritage to engage the body as a living archive of lived experience and memory.

Janette collaborates across disciplines and presents unique performances in public spaces, galleries, and natural environments—expanding where and how dance is encountered.