South Australian Chair-Based Dance

Hello lovely dancers and followers 👋
Dance and theatre artist Lisa Lanzi has a wonderful fundraiser coming up for the remarkable No Strings Theatre of Disability - would love to see you there 😍

Less than one month to go until Winter Wonderland ❄️✨

Our annual heartwarming fundraiser is just around the corner, and we can’t wait to gather for a night filled with cheer, connection and a little mid-year Christmas magic.

We have some fabulous entertainment lined up, including ABC Radio Adelaide host, Jason Chong, as our MC!

We’re bringing PubSING to Woodville Town Hall - with a bit of a mid-winter Christmassy vibe. If you have only ever been a secret shower-singer or someone who always thought they COULDN’T sing then this is your chance to join in with a room full of strangers who will become firm friends through this shared madcap sing-a-long experience. And for those who prefer to just clap along and let the professionals strut their stuff, we’ve got that covered too, with the amazing Lisa K Lanzi and Catherine Campbell bringing a touch of classy Cabaret to the stage.

Join us on Saturday, 16th May as we celebrate all things Winter and Wonderful, with great company, festive fun and a shared purpose of supporting disabled artists to shine through new professional development and paid performance opportunities, with new artistic outcomes already in development.

Tickets are available now via our website 🔗 https://nostrings.org.au/listing/winter-wonderland-2026/

We’d love to see you there! 💛

The City of Victor Harbor's Active Wellbeing presents Chair-Based Dance classes. Secure your place by visiting the Bookable site. Classes commence in May on Wednesdays at 1:30 pm at Carrickalinga House. Book online: https://share.google/y90uMKsEORwe4AwIl

New - Victor Harbor SA
Fleurieu Chair-based dance classes starting in May with support from the City of Victor Harbor council
bookings can be made via Bookable in the link below..
https://victorharbor-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_16c9827de586479c9c0d712628d23408

And suddenly a flurry of activity in the SA chair-based dance class space!

If you live in the inner northern suburbs and are keen to dance, there is a class at Eliza Hall in Prospect on Wednesday afternoons, led by SA Dance Health Alliance coordinator, Cazna Brass.

For more information please scroll down to the Prospect class listing on the Dance Health Alliance website.

Timetable Rediscover Joy and Vitality through Dance DanceMoves is an inclusive,

A new chair-based class has started up in Aldinga. Please contact Juliette Griffin on the number below for more details.

My dance teaching colleague and dear friend, Cherie, sent me this article and I thought it was worth sharing. Anecdotal evidence of the neuroprotective powers of vigorous exercise. Perhaps we should be doing something a bit more up tempo like swing dance!

'Well, you outlasted me. Congratulations': Former SA attorney-general shares his Parkinson's battle - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia Former SA Attorney General and Health Minister Peter Duncan used two thumbs to type this story about his fight with Parkinson's.

30th January - put the date in your diary! The newly named Every Body Chair-Based Dance kicks off for 2026, two weeks today. New choreography is under construction so start tuning up your bodies and brains! 😀

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And happy new look for the dance class at Clarence Park Community Centre.

After nearly 10 years as "Contemporary Dance...For Seniors", the class was due for a re-brand. Henceforth, the class will be known as "Every Body Chair-Based Dance".

This name change acknowledges that it is not only senior adults for whom a chair-based dance class may be the most appropriate dance class format, but also appreciates that there are plenty of senior adults who are VERY capable of doing a fully free-standing dance class (my Burnside City Council Over 65s dance classes being a robust example of that!).

Thank you to my husband for helping with the new logo creation, as a model for the seated figure and for holding my hand with my first experience using AI to create the logo.

Tomorrow is AusArt Day, Creative Australia's first ever national giving day for the arts. Dance for Parkinson's Australia is participating with a goal of raising $2,500. If you have some spare cash, please consider donating via this link

Artist Project: Together We Move - Dance for Health The Australian Cultural Fund is operated by Creative Australia, ABN 38 392 626 187, and has endorsement as a deductible gift recipient (DGR) confirmed by the Australian Tax Office. Copyright © 2024 Creative Australia.

Well it has been a few weeks now, but here are some photos from TWD10! It was a beautiful afternoon and the energy in the room was spine tingling! Thank you to the dancers and the teachers for coming on this chair-based dance journey. Thank you also to the volunteers for helping us run the event and for Erica Rose Jeffrey of Dance for Parkinson's Australia for coming down to join us for the celebration. And lastly thank you to Stephanie Lake for allowing us to use the "Choir" section of "MASS MOVEMENT" as our shared dance work. To another 10 years!

Hello chair-based dance community!

Together We Dance - Ten Years Strong! is just eleven days away.

The dance class has sold out but there are still some tickets available for the second half of our celebration.

This $5 ticket includes afternoon tea, a quick jaunt down memory lane to hear about the orgins of SA chair-based dance presented by Anne Heard (formerly of Parkinson's SA) and Erica Rose Jeffrey, director of Dance For Parkinson's Australia, and finally a showing of a seated version of a part of "MASS MOVEMENT" created by Melbourne choreographer, Stephanie Lake and premiered at this years's Adelaide Festival.

Please note there will be no door sales for this event and online sales will finish next Wednesday 10th September at 5pm (we need to know attendee numbers in advance for catering purposes).

Tickets are available via this link https://events.humanitix.com/twd10

Hope to see you there!

Together We Dance - Ten Years Strong! A Community Celebration Of Chair-based Dance A celebratory BIG group chair-based dance class, afternoon tea and showing of a seated version of "Choir" (excerpt from Stephanie Lake's work "MASS MOVEMENT").