MAP provides a space for anyone who is interested in engaging more deeply with their moving body.
Join us at the MAP Studio,
76 Hawdon Street, Sydenham, Ōtautahi Christchurch.
All are welcome to share and connect through movement.
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*please note Wednesday Schedule change ongoing from June 9*
2021 pricing
Adult Weekly Membership Subscription
Annual Donation $150 plus $25/week
Unlimited classes each week plus exclusive membership discounts on movement labs and events
Unlimited Month
$150
Up to 17 classes available to attend
10 Class Pass (3 month expiry)
$160
Creative Kids Dance
$150 per term*
*Pro Rata term price available for late starts
Casual Drop In
$20
Community Choreographic Project
$175 | $150 for members
Autumn Movement Lab
$60 | $40 for members
2021 schedule
Open Adults Contemporary
When: Monday 7:15pm – 8:30pm
Tutor: Julia Harvie
Muscle and Bone
When: Wednesday 5:30pm – 6.20pm
Tutor: Anu Khapung
Body Work & Improvisation
When: Wednesday 6:30pm – 7:45pm
Tutor: Robyn Jordaan
Creative Kids 5 – 7yrs
When: Saturday 9am – 9:45am
Tutor: Olivia O’Brien
Creative Kids 8 – 10yrs
When: Saturday 10:00am – 10:45am
Tutor: Olivia O’Brien
Community Choreographic Project
When: Thursdays 7:00 – 8:30pm from April 27 – June 17
Saturdays 11:00am – 1pm from May 1 – June 19
Directors: Julia Harvie & Olivia Webb
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 dancer and choreographer, Olivia O’Brien, your children can express themselves in a safe and fun environment. Olivia is currently training to become a primary school teacher and is a recent graduate of UNITEC Contemporary Dance Performing Arts Bachelors course. 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: $150 per term
We run to school terms.
Term 1: 6 Feb – 17 April
Term 2: 8 May – 10 July
Term 3: 31 July – 2 Oct
Term 4: 23 Oct – 11 Dec
Creative Kids 5 – 7yrs
When: Saturday 9:00am – 9:45am
Tutor: Olivia O’Brien
Creative Kids 8 – 10yrs
When: Saturday 10am – 10:45am
Tutor: Olivia O’Brien
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.
Open Adults Contemporary with Julia Harvie
MONDAYS 7.15 – 8.30pm
75 minutes
This class is pitched at a more advanced level. However, as with all MAP classes, this is inclusive to all people with adaptable movement options. Julia’s classes are dynamic, fast-paced, using wrapping and unwrapping, moving in circular pathways and streamlines with twists and curves. This class will develop stamina, flow and softness in and out of the floor.
Body Work & Improvisation with Robyn Jordaan
WEDNESDAYS 6.30 – 7.45pm
75 minutes
Robyn’s class 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.
Muscle and Bone with Anu Khapung
WEDNESDAYS 5.30 – 6.20pm
50 minutes
As a Nepalese woman, it is in Anu’s culture to dance. She grew up with Nepalese dance deeply embedded in her life.
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.
Creative Kids Dance with Olivia O’Brien
SATURDAYS
5 – 7 year olds – 9.00 – 9.45am
8 – 10 year olds – 10.00 – 10.45am
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, Olivia 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.
Hañsa Yoga with Anu Khapung
SATURDAYS 10.45am – 12.15pm
90 minutes
A therapeutic movement practice designed to support optimal movement performance and postural function with greater ease. Through Hañsa Flow you will further develop an understanding of human movement and natural biomechanical rhythms. An excellent compliment to your dance practice.
*Please bring your own mat to class.
Contact Improvisation Skills & Jam with Lisa Mills
Last Sunday of each month – 120 minutes
You will build greater awareness of your own inner landscape of movement, and then come together with another to discover the joy and delight of the dance of ‘we’. You will learn:
- – playing with the artistry of falling off balance and
counterbalance - – finding the shelves of the body
- – learning the mechanics of the body in order to
handle someone else’s weight or be lifted - – breathing techniques and how momentum
influences movement
You do not need a dance partner to attend. Contemporary dance has been informed by Contact Improv over the years, and a great resource to create inspired choreography from.