Dance
Do you want to learn more about how to use dance and creative performance to communicate with others?
Join us in this elective as we help you explore a number of dance styles using improvisation and other choreographic skills to create fresh and engaging performances. We will also explore spending time with God through movement prayer, welcoming his hand in the creative process. Have fun learning to choreograph pieces in teams and enjoy honing your dance skills.
Heidi McKerrow
Heidi studied dance at the Wesley Institute, Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor in Creative Arts (Dance) in 2002 and more recently trained with Helena Yuk’s Undercurrent Dance Company, performing in various short pieces and their 2010 production, Black Ocean. Other recent credits include Danger in Numbers by Laura Summers (Dance House Open Studio 2009), Modular Control by Isabel Andreu-Burillo (Melbourne Fringe 2010), Body of Ice by Tina Evans (2011) and Dance Class, it's like a love pinball machine (produced by Homemade, co-directed by Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Wheeler). Heidi's first full length work as a choreographer/director titled Tombola, traversing the unknown, also debuted in 2011 to sell out audiences in Melbourne. Heidi has also served on the NSW Christian Dance Fellowship of Australia board and is a current member for the Christian Artists' Factory board, based in Melbourne.
Apart from an obvious interest in contemporary dance performance Heidi's underlying fascination is in the ability of the arts to gather people around not only an artistic outcome but, maybe more significantly, the development process. She is looking forward to sharing some of these experiences and generating some awesome material with the dance elective at Faith and Arts this January!
Hannah currently lives, works, breathes and co-creates in Poatina, Tasmania.
Formerly based in the inner west of Sydney, she studied dance at Wesley Institute (where she returned to lecture from 2002 – 2009) and holds a Masters in Visual and Performing Arts. Hannah has spent many years collaborating with her musician husband, Steve Cooper (and other artists), to create and perform works in Australia and abroad in arts festivals, Christian events and self-produced seasons. Her current creative passions are: collaborative practice informed by dance processes; permaculture and communal sustainability; and nurturing mentoring relationships.
Helen Wright
