A Deep Dive into Nature
Sun, 20 Aug
|The Space Between, Plettenberg Bay
An art and dance workshop to stimulate your creativity
Time & Location
20 Aug 2023, 10:30 – 15:00
The Space Between, Plettenberg Bay, Tanamoya Farm Airport Loop Road Roodentontein, Plettenberg Bay, 6600, South Africa
Guests
About the event
Join Balu Nivison for 90 minutes of dance and movement followed by a drawing workshop by Isa Schwartz Gessau using the fynbos from the area as our natural source material. Art materials will be provided.
The dance workshop features Balu’s teaching, which is a unique mind-body-soul experience called MovingArt and Yoga Dance, embodying a wide range of rhythmic energies. It will be assisted be Isa’s instruction with her background in contemporary movement and Nia.
The Dance Workshop takes place from 10.30am-12pm, followed by a lunch break from 12-1pm. The Art workshop will run from 1-3pm.
About Balu
MovingArt originator, clothing designer, blue belt Nia instructor, yoga teacher, scholar of ancient spiritual wisdom, and mother of five, Balu has been teaching dance and running transformational workshops for the past 30 years, using dance as a vehicle for healing, expression and connection.
Balu’s teaching is a balance of expressions of the soul through movement, in a unique mind-body-soul experience called MovingArt and Yoga Dance, that embodies a wide range of rhythmic energies. This is led by the body’s innate wisdom in free dance, balanced with simply structured movement exercises in an accessible mix of contemporary dance techniques. Balu is the winner of two WC Ministerial Awards (2016) for ‘best contribution to cultural activities’ and the prestigious ‘outstanding achievement of women in arts and culture’.
About Isa
Isa found Nia 8 years ago and it has become her tonic. She has a White belt, Green belt and Moving to Heal trainings under her belt and has been teaching Nia for 4 years. Isa has danced contemporary movement since her youth and into the present.
Trained by Susan Sloan, Isa teaches two weekly classes in Joburg at Kairos studios - Classic Nia and Moving to Heal.
Alongside dance, Isa has a passion for teaching art, as well as trading in art and jewellery. With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Witswatersrand, she gained years of experience teaching community art workshops and has run classes in her own art studio- iBi Art School in Johannesburg for over 16 years.