ECLECTICA HUB PRESENTS:
Advanced Dance Training Troupe 2025
AUDITION FOR OUR ADVANCED STUDENT DANCE TROUPE
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 9am-12pm Melbourne
Experience Advanced Dance Training and Become Eclectica’s Secondary Core Troupe.
Excel as a dancer and performer, and be a part of Eclectica’s Most Advanced Dance Student Troupe, which will act as a secondary or sister ‘core’ troupe, woven within our Melbourne Semester in 2025. Our teacher training will offer participants high calibre dance training, intricate choreography, and technique and strengthening classes - while also learning multidimensional dance pieces which will be performed in the mid year concert.
Receive Training from World-Renowned Choreographers:
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Anna-Maria Flynn
ECLECTICA HUB FOUNDER, VISIONARY STORYTELLER, EAGLE EYE & LEAD CHOREOGRAPHER
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Demi Lee
ECLECTICA HUB CO-FOUNDER, LEAD CHOREOGRAPHER, VISIONARY ARTIST AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Lahni Gordon
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, LEAD CHOREOGRAPHER & DANCE TRAINER
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Marley Thorpe
PROFESSIONAL DANCER & ADVANCED DANCE TECHNIQUE TRAINER
Excel as a Dancer and Performer, And be a Part of Eclectica’s Secondary Core
This 16-week program is designed to spark your creativity, expand your pathways of movement, and challenge you as a dancer.
This program offers the tools and resources required to strengthen your technique and personal foundation as both a visionary dancer and contemporary artist, within the realms of intentional choreography, ritual theatre, storytelling, and embodiment.
Participants of this body of work will attend weekly sessions that are anchored in advanced choreography, technique training, composition and improvisation, embodiment, and ritual-based theatre practices.
Students are trained at a high level across a range of embodiment techniques, supporting them to strengthen as a performer, conduit, and storyteller . The course also has a strong emphasis on fusing elements of contemporary, lyrical, jazz, and hip hop - to produce a well-rounded and multidimensional dancer. As an Advanced Training Course, students are required to complete home work and exams based around self-rehearsal, assurance, and conviction within the choreography. All students are required to become anchors.
The combination of practical and embodiment classes makes for an all-round performer with longevity on their horizon.
Our Advanced Training course fosters learning, reflection, expansion and creative discovery, pushing each student to achieve their unique potential as a Contemporary artist.
Expand as a Storyteller, ShapeShifter, and Visionary Artist.
This training will feature extensive embodiment training through merging the physical with the psychological, harnessing the power of both movement and feeling.
Students will be taken through a series of modules that will support them in emptying out, letting go of identity, and becoming a conduit for Story to flow through them.
Through a multidisciplinary approach to performance training, we seek to reveal an honest and authentic form of expression, enlivening the entire creative process. Every aspect of the work creates a deep sense of listening and responsiveness to the impulses that arise within one’s own body, and from the collective ecosystem you will become as an advanced dance troupe.
This training will focus on the dancer’s ability to tell the story a by awakening a sense of internal and external rhythm, working with physical impulse, spatial awareness, breath, and focus.
The body is our gateway to all creative sources, and through a flow of movement and breath we can awaken vibrations -resonating the bones and tissues- creating a visceral understanding of transcendetal performance art and enlivening new possibilities for contemporary artistry.
Learn Intricate Choreography and Perform in Advanced Dance Pieces in our Mid-Year Stage Production.
Deepen into the Transformative Realms Of:
Discover and unlock new-found depths of skill and performance artistry as we dive deep into the following modules:
Advanced Choreography and Ritual Theatre Practices
Advanced Embodiment Training
Strength, Conditioning, and Flexibility
High Calibre Training into Technique and Precision as a Dancer
Somatic Arts
Expand as a Dancer through Exploring Styles of Contemporary, Jazz, Lyrical, and Hip Hop.
Composition and Improvisation
Expand as Storyteller and Conduit for Feeling
Intricate Choreography and Mapping Out New Pathways for Movement
Excelling in Body Awareness, Balance, and Leadership
Be Interwoven in the Main Storyline of the Stage Production in Advanced Dance Pieces that will Challenge and Expand your Capacity.
Our Advanced Dance Troupe is Open to Participants by Audition Only.
We will be holding Auditions for our Advanced Student Dance Troupe on Sunday 22/12 (9am until 12pm) based in Melbourne VIC (Exact location to be confirmed). Participants will be required to learn a dance at the beginning of the day and this will be used as part of their audition, alongside an opportunity to free flow and show your unique style. Please note that the choreography for this troupe will be both advanced and intricate, so it is recommended to have some form of background in dance or previous experience dancing with Eclectica. Please also note, it is preferred that participants are enrolled in another body of work in order to join this troupe. This troupe will be a ‘secondary training’ that participants will attend alongside another Eclectica Body of Work, whether that be Passage of Self, Way of the WombKeeper, The Liminal, or Embodied Eldership.
Please note that if you are enrolled in our Teacher Training you will automatically be part of this troupe - given that you are ready and able to delve into the realms of advanced choreography and dance training.
For those that are ready to…
Excel as a Dancer • Strengthen their technique and foundations in dance and movement • Expand as. a multidimensional performer and storyteller • Experience intricate choreography designed to challenge you and take your dance experience to the next level • Explore the fusion of contemporary, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop • Access transcendental states of embodiment and expression • Deepen somatically • Improve in Flexibility, Strength, Coordination, and Movement • Become an Embodied Anchor and Leader within Choreography • Perform Advanced Dance Pieces within the Stage Production • Unlock new states of Improvisation and Intuitive Movement Therapy • Explore new Foundations and Pathways of Movement • Receive Advanced Choreography Codes and Ritual Theatre Training •
The School term will finish with a mid-year concert where new and existing students will perform live dance transmissions that reflect the deep and transformative course content.
This will be an opportunity for you to be received in your most full-bodied expression and uninhibited aliveness by an electric crowd of supportive individuals who are there to support your expansion and fan your flame.
Students within the advanced trainings will be featured in the main show dancing alongsde the Eclectica core.
PERFORM ON STAGE AND BE WITNESSED IN YOUR EXPRESSION….
Registration open Now
Thursday Night Class
Participants of this body of work will attend weekly Thursday Night sessions at Second Story Studio that are anchored in advanced choreography, technique, embodiment, and ritual-based theatre practices.
Please make a note that Week 5 and Week 11 are semester break weeks. Also please take note that students will be required to attend an additional session in Week 11 for the Stage Rehearsal. The concert is in Week 15 and will be held over three nights. The stage rehearsal and concert nights are compulsory for all students.
Classes for Thursday Night Class run from 6pm - 10pm at Second Story Studios.
Classes run Consecutively each week starting on Thursday 6th of March 2025 and finishing Thursday 29th of May 2025.
Note that there will be NO CLASS on Thursday 13th of March and Thursday 26th of April as they are designated semester breaks.
The Advanced Dance Troupe will be Facilitated by Anna-Maria Flynn, Demi Lee, Lahni Gordon, and Marley Thorpe.
DATES:
Week 1 - Thursday, 13th Feb Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 2 - Thursday 20th Feb Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 3 - Thursday 27th Feb Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 4 - Thursday 6th of March Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 5 - Thursday 13th of March LABOUR DAY WEEKEND BREAK / NO CLASS
Week 6 - Thursday 20th of March Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 7 - Thursday 27th of March Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 8 - Thursday 3rd of April Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 9 - Thursday 10th of April Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 10 - Thursday 17th of April Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 11 - Thursday 26th of April EASTER BREAK / NO CLASS
Week 12 - Thursday 1st of May Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 13 - Thursday 8th of May Second Story Studios: 6pm - 10pm
Week 14 - Monday 12th of May Second Story Studios, 6pm - 10pm (please note class has been moved to Monday for week 14 to allow space for the stage rehearsal) + STAGE REHEARSAL ON THURSDAY 15TH OF MAY (All students)
Week 15 - CONCERT WEEK 20TH, 21ST, 22ND MAY
Week 16 - Thursday 29th of May Second Story Studios, 6pm - 10pm - Portal Close & Integration.
Soul Investment
(If you get accepted through Auditions):
Pay in Full: $1,600
Payment Plan: $1,600 in 8 x fortnightly instalments of $200
Held at SECOND STORY STUDIOS:
222A Johnston St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia
REFUND POLICY:
This course (if you are accepted through audition only) is strictly non-refundable.
In the event of extreme crisis of illness participants may apply to transfer their course fees to a future course or training with Eclectica (either online or in person) OR privately sell their space to a friend. Note that is is your responsibility to find this friend, not Eclectica’s.
When securing your space, you agree to these terms and conditions and understand the following:
In the event of extreme crisis of illness participants MUST prove this by showing a Doctor’s Certificate or something of similar validity.
Transfered fees must be used within an 18month period.
Eclectica must be notified of any name changes at least 48 hours before intensive commencement.
Application to transfer fees due to crisis or extreme illness but be requested a minimum of two weeks before course commencement.