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Teaching dance in Corrections or your community?
'Dancing in Confinement' is a FREE resource to help other facilitate community dance classes,
including an e-book and videos!
Click the PDF link to download the resource!
Access the videos on YouTube HERE
OR click the videos below
ABOUT
Initiate Dance aims to provide a safe, fun and enjoyable environments for people in our communities to learn, create and share dance.
Initiate Dance is a community dance initiative founded by Dr Kristie Mortimer, who aims to provide accessible and inclusive dance activities.
Initiate Dance has been running programmes since 2015. Initiate Dance Holiday Programmes continue to run thanks to Auckland Council's Creative Community Scheme funding.
The Dancing in Confinement community dance resource has been created as part of the Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance 2020 at the University of Otago.
DR KRISTIE MORTIMER
Growing up in Blenheim, New Zealand, Kristie began dancing from the age of seven, and was teaching classes by the time she was fifteen. She moved to Auckland in 2010 to study a Bachelor of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, and has recently completed her PhD in Dance Studies. Kristie also completed her Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Dance Studies, which included one semester on exchange at Roehampton University in London.
Most recently she has been awarded the Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance for 2020, at the University of Otago. Through this Kristie provided community dance classes for prisoners, adults and children in the Otago community.
Kristie has learned, performed and taught throughout New Zealand, and internationally in countries such as Australia, London, Singapore and Tonga. Her research explores cultural difference and Eurocentrism in dance education, and community dance practice in prisons.
Kristie is passionate about teaching and facilitating dance in our communities, and is eager to make dance accessible to diverse groups of people.
CONTACT
CLASS DELIVERY:
Kristie Mortimer is available to deliver classes and/or professional development in community dance classes throughout Aotearoa.
If you would like one or more classes delivered in your community, or have any questions, please contact Kristie at initiatedance@gmail.com.
FEEDBACK:
Are you using the resource? Has it worked well for you? Do you have feedback or questions?
Kristie would love to hear how you have used the resource in your community. Please email any feedback and/or comments to Kristie at initiatedance@gmail.com.