Community Classes
MAP runs weekly community classes with professional dancers, so you can engage more deeply with
your moving body, in a fun, safe, and friendly environment.
Join us at the MAP Studio,
76 Hawdon Street, Sydenham, Ōtautahi Christchurch.
All are welcome to share and connect through movement.
Want to buy a pass package?
See below for pricing and
BUY a Pass Package then
BOOK your choice of class.
Just dropping in or already have a pass package?
See below for the schedule then head straight to BOOK your choice of class.
Booking your child for a term or a drop in?
For more information and the term schedule see below.
2022 pricing
Adult Weekly Membership Subscription
Annual Donation $150 plus $25/week
Unlimited classes each week plus exclusive membership discounts on movement labs and events
10 Class Pass (3 month expiry)
$160
Casual Drop In
$20
Creative Kids Dance Term
$120
Creative Kids Dance Drop In
$15 per class
2022 schedule
Contemporary Technique
Mondays 7:15pm - 8:30pm
with Josie Archer
Wednesdays 6:00pm - 7:15pm
with Julia Harvie
Creative Kids
Saturdays 9:15am - 10:00am
with Olivia O'Brien
Muscle and Bone
Saturdays 10:15am - 11.30am
with Kereana Mosen
Introducing
creative kids dance
MAP has been running adult community dance classes for the last seven years, encouraging them to feel empowered to move and be creative with their bodies.
We see a need for children who don't fit the traditional dance studio mould to be given space to explore creativity through movement too.
With professional dancers and choreographer, Olivia O'Brien, your children can express themselves in a safe and fun environment. You can be assured your children are in safe hands.
Creativity requires flexibility, imagination, problem solving, and risk taking. Creative people form original ideas through exploration and discovery. They imagine things that do not exist and come up with new ideas. Dance classes traditionally focus mastering steps, memorising combinations of movement, and replicating positions and forms. However, with a few simple tools, we can foster creativity while developing skilled dancers who can enjoy dance throughout their lives.
With no exams, no uniforms, no right or wrong way, just the joy of movement, we would love to have your child dancing with us in 2021.
PRICE: $120 per term | $15 per class
Creative Kids 5 - 7yrs
When: Saturday 9:15am - 10:00am
Tutor: Kereana Mosen
Term 2: 7 May - 9 July
map under orange
We are pleased to advise that under the ORANGE setting of Aotearoa's COVID Protection Framework, MAP can continue to operate. The followed practices are in effect:
1. Please try to book before attending class.
2. All tutors will be wearing masks and we encourage class participants to do the same.
3. All people will be asked to maintain social distance where possible.
4. All our tutors and staff are vaccinated.
5. Floors will be cleaned and surfaces sanitised regularly.
6. We ask that parents where possible wait in the foyer or drop and pick your children up from class, rather than sitting in the studio during class.
We will provide further information as the situation unfolds so please check in regularly.
Meet your tutors
At MAP we pride ourselves on the calibre of our tutors. All are trained professional dancers and dance makers. This ensures you are engaged directly with our local dance artist community, keeping you in the know with upcoming events and current training of artistic integrity.
Contemporary Technique
Monday 7:15pm - 8:30pm
75 minutes
Learn choreographic skills for improvising in performance. Julia will take you through a series of exercises that will build skills and understanding in timing, duration, writing material, spatial and relational considerations, and entrance and exits that will culminate each week in making a piece. With these tools, if you wish, you will be able to go in the pool of performers who take part in the monthly MAP Sessions to perform Real Time Compositions to the public.
Body Work & Improvisation with Kosta Bogoievski
WEDNESDAYS 6:00 - 7:15pm
75 minutes
Kosta draws on a variety of related therapeutic and creative movement practices explored through visualisation, provocations to explore creative processes, and efficiency and ease of movement. No experience required. No choreography to learn, just the freedom to explore your creativity mind and body through movement.
Creative Kids Dance with Kerena Mosen
SATURDAYS
5 - 7 year olds - 9.15 - 10.00am
45 minutes
Give your children a refreshing and creative start to their dance journey. MAP kids classes nurture your child's unique creative voice through movement. Using imagery and improvisation, Kereana will teach the ways dance allows them to engage and understand themselves and the world aroud them. No uniforms, no exams, just the joy of dance.
Muscle & Bone with Kereana Mosen
SATURDAYS 10.15 - 11.45am
90 minutes
Muscle and Bone encourages participants to experience the limit of their flexibility, endurance and spatial expansion.
The classes are designed to be fast paced, physically rigorous and are structured for participants to experience full expansion of their external body in the space.
M&B movement approach is one part of the Body Weather Laboratory is a research forum, founded in 1978 by Min Tanaka.