Education

Encompass is a Touch Compass brand that includes community classes, youth workshops and performance, and tutor training.

• Provide inclusive dance programmes that are open to anyone who wants to dance
• Enable dancers to discover their own creativity, expression, and self-confidence
• Build the skills of practitioners necessary for sustainable employment
• Offer professional development for teachers of integrated and mainstream dance
• Raise society's awareness and understanding of integrated dance
• Present stage performances that are enjoyable, challenging and memorable

Encompass Education Programme 2013 brochure

Encompass Community Programme 2013 brochure

NEW! Encompass Education Programme 

RUN - ($400—690 +GST)

2 hours (Workshop + performance)
April—May or by arrangement
A 13 minute group work with a clear choreographic intention, Run is perfect for the NZ Curriculum and NCEA Levels 1—3. A great example of using choreographic devices to develop and progress ideas, featuring solo, duet and ensemble work. RUN by choreographer Marc Brew (UK/AU), pushes the dancers to the point of exhaustion exploring what makes us run away from our past. A resource pack and DVD for schools is being made and will be available for purchase from June 2013. 

HOTBOX—OPTION 1 ($300—$500 +GST)
2 hour (Workshop + performance)
April—November
5—10 min duet work from our 2013 exciting new Hotbox series. Focusing on ‘difference’ and relationships between dancers, these site adaptive works are suitable for diverse settings from the local hall, studio or art gallery.

HOTBOX—OPTION 2 (By negotiation)
3—5 day (Residency)
Create your own Hotbox duet and get to perform it alongside Touch Compass in a public showing.

GUEST SPEAKER ($100—$200 +GST)
10 minutes (Talk/presentation)
March—December
Ideal for Assembly, Prize giving or Health, Dance, PE or Social Studies curricula. A Touch Compass dancer will inspire your young people to strive to achieve and share insights about enabling and embracing diversity.

GROTTESCHI ($100—$200 +GST)
1 hour (Seminar)
Want to extend your capable students? Award winning choreographer Suzanne Cowan talks about choreographic process and challenging conventional aesthetics in dance. Appropriate for choreographers with some experience. GROTTESCHI by Suzanne Cowan (NZ) explores the myth of the classical body and grotesque body, how each contains the other and how they ultimately transcend any categorisation.

Workshops are led by our experienced tutors supported by very talented Company dancers.

Accessibility is a cornerstone of Touch Compass. We operate a sliding scale of fees and invite payment according to your organisation’s financial ability. Please contact us if cost is a barrier for your school or group.

STUDENT COMMENTS

“The whole dance and workshop was simply amazing and inspiring, I would love to do another.”

“After this workshop I will think differently about what dance is.”

“One thing I will remember is to be different, try new things.”

Individual tutor training can be arranged and tailored to suit your needs. Whether you’re a private dance teacher, school dance teacher, or just want to learn about contact improvisation or integrated dance teaching techniques we can shape sessions to meet your needs. Contact us here.