Dance:

Where lies the joy, the specialness of dance but in the total involvement of body and soul in the relationships and communication of the dance; in the power to feel or understand with all parts of the body; in it's ability to involve anybody; in that it is a Now event. The relationships or at least the outcome of relationships in creative dance happen spontaneously not defined by or confined to any other reality but that of the moment. Each moment Is—it defines itself and demands to be acted up on.

For most of us dance Is a joyous educational process, a way of developing awareness and sensitivity to ourselves, to others, to music, words and space. So, In this Art's Festival the dance workshops are open to any person who wishes to learn about qualities of movement and their relation to how one feels (kinesthetic) sense), about space and most important aspect, how to dance (communicate) with others. The nature of creative dance Is such that within any group there can be people of differing abilities.

One workshop given by Baujke Van Zon will involve amongst the areas mentioned above poetry and dance; another a two day Multi Media workshop with Phillip Dadson, Val Hunter, Deb Pearson and Linda Taylor will involve experiencing movement sound and paint.

On the performance side there will be no one big dance concert. From Auckland the Van Zon Dancers and the A.U. Creative Dance Group will take part in a Collage along with music, drama and poetry. There will be an Asian-Pacific programme (and I hope some workshops from these people.) Victoria will present a number of dances with their drama production, while Otago will present a revue combining dance, music and drama.

There will be two professional groups performing—the New Zealand Dance Ensemble will perform new works by John Casserly in a programme of modern dances. They will also be giving an all day master class. The second group will be the Australian Dance Theater who may also give a master class.

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