Sprung!! is offering a pilot series of dance workshops, supported by Clarence Valley Council.
Sprung!! Is a specialist dance-theatre company that trains, nurtures and mentors’ people with and without disabilities to find their unique skills and style in movement and character. They have been short-listed for two Australian Dance Awards for outstanding community dance, and over the past decade have run many hundreds of integrated community dance and theatre workshops throughout the Northern Rivers and beyond.
Clarence Valley community was introduced to Sprung!! through their theatre show, French Cafe, which played at the Criterion Theatre in Grafton as part of the recent Plunge Festival, featuring on Channel 10’s The Project (https://www.facebook.com/TheProjectTV/videos/583721226280013 ).
Now Sprung!! are welcoming new participants from the Clarence Valley to try out the workshops in this pilot series. Sprung!! hopes to build a large enough participant base to continue offering regular classes in Clarence. With the Clarence Valley Council’s support, they will be offering the workshops on Sundays in the first four weeks of term four.
Our friendly specialist tutors, Katie and Jade, will guide participants through a range of exercises and tasks, to suit their level, with the aims of enjoyment of their own unique physical expression and the discovery of new ways of movement. Sprung!!’s unique and inclusive style of dance-making, has been developed over 10 years of practice and performance and follows a variety of creative processes avoiding complicated choreography. The workshops are open to persons from age 16 with and without disability, who have an interest in dance or theatre and the ability to engage.
“We all know that dance is good for your soul, your body, your mind, and integrates all these parts. Our participants benefit in so many ways from this: socially, emotionally, physical dexterity, balance and fitness,” says Emma Newman, Sprung’s Administrator and Tutor.
Sprung!! also run school holiday programs, the next one being 4th-7th October, in Ballina.
Contact Sprung!! on 0478 879 706 or info@sprung.org.au for more information.
Maclean Civic Hall, 50 River St, Maclean
First four Sundays in Term Four:
16 Oct, Oct 23, Oct 30, Nov 6
10am – 1pm
Enquiries: Please contact Sprung!! on 0478 879 706 / info@sprung.org.au
Facebook event: https://bit.ly/3DEQ4qn
Bookings required: https://sprungbookings.as.me/
Website: Check out Sprung!!’s work at sprung.org.au.
About the Tutors
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal (guest tutor & mentor with Sprung!!) is a contemporary dance artist, performance maker, producer and educator based at Woombah, NSW. Following a path that led from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts Sydney, topping NSW in HSC Dance and HSC Classical Ballet, a year of Dance studies at QUT Brisbane and a full scholarship to the University of Florida in Miami USA, she then accepted a scholarship to VCA University of Melbourne gaining a High Distinction Master of Choreography, supporting her 25 years of knowledge and experience. Throughout her career as an independent artist, Jade has danced with many companies, in Australia and abroad including residencies in India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Spain, France, Austria and Iceland. Since 2017 Jade has been an Associate Artist for NORPA and also choreographed their production of Djurra – Bundjalung Dreaming in 2018, plus choreographed and directed Flow – a Yaegl Story for NORPA in 2021.
Katie Cooper-Wares (main tutor at Sprung!!) is an interdisciplinary performance artist specialising in the forms of Dance, Theatre, Storytelling and Comedy with a strong curiosity for site-specific, interactive and inclusive work. Also based in Woombah, she regularly devises, directs, produces, curates, facilitates & performs for events and festivals nationwide including Adelaide Fringe Festival, Woodford Folk Festival and Splendour in the Grass. Katie collaborates with arts organisations including NORPA, HOTA, Arts Access Australia, RealArtworks, Lismore Regional Gallery & the Creative Recovery Network. Her recent Professional Development highlights including training with Force Majeure, Zen Zen Zo Theatre, Giovanni Fusetti, Action Theatre Australia, La Pocha Nostra & Matteo Destro. Katie is passionate about ensuring the voices of artists with disability are heard and valued in the creative process.