Independance

🔔 Tomorrow - Contact Improvisation Fundamentals workshop!

⏰Saturday 20 July 2:45-5:45pm / 113 Wellesley St West, Auckland

🧡Independance is excited to co-host the second in a series of Contact Improvisation fundamentals workshops with Matt Gibbons and Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann at Wellesley Studios.
This class is a starting point for anyone new to Contact, or for practitioners expanding experience.
Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance form and movement inquiry practice based on physical principals.
The practice plays with the skills of falling, rolling, counterbalance, lifting using minimal effort, how to make ourselves light when being lifted, and responsiveness to dance partners and surroundings.
The 3 hour block will cover fundamental principles of CI. The purpose is to introduce, skills and concepts that practitioners feel comfortable taking into a contact jam or other movement/dance practices.
Please arrive early, bring some water and wear loose clothing that covers the legs and shoulders. We may have a social meeting afterwards if people feel inclined.

💫Workshop cost - $20 (card or bank transfer payments at studio)

🔔Sign up at link in bio or email [email protected]

On tonight at Wellesley Studios 6:30-8pm

ANIMAL FLOW WITH SARAH AL KABBANI

Rest of this week

Wednesday 17 - Pro Contemporary with Sharvon Mortimer 6:30-8pm
Thursday 18 - Animal Flow with Sarah Al Kabbani 6:30-8pm
Saturday 20 - Muscle and Bone with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 10-11:30am and Contact Improvisation workshop with Matt Gibbons and Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 2:45-5:45pm

Register here: https://forms.gle/WTgMCPdwrksoZZGy6

Send a message to learn more

Upcoming week at Indy!

-Monday 24/06 - Pro Contemporary with Amit Noy
-Thursday 27/06 - Pro Contemporary with Holly Finch
-Saturday 29/06 - No class, Matariki Weekend

Register by emailing [email protected]

Class Prices:
Drop-in - $15 ($12 student)
10 class card - $120 ($100 student)
Payment can be made by cash, card or bank transfer before class at Wellesley Studios reception

All classes are held at Wellesley Studios

June line up ✨

🔸Mondays 10 + 17 June - Pro Contemporary with Natasha Kohler 6:30-8pm
🔸Monday 24 June - Pro Contemporary with Amit Noy .m_i.t_ 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursdays 6 + 13 June - Gaming Your Practice with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 6:30-8pm
🔸Thursdays 20 + 27 June - Pro Contemporary with Holly Finch 6:30-8pm

🔸Saturdays 8, 15, 22 + 29 June - Open level Muscle and Bone with Kasina Campbell 10-11:30am

🔸Register for class at the link in our bio or email [email protected]
🔸All classes are held at Wellesley Studios, 113 Wellesley Street West, Auckland. No parking available at the studio.

🔸Drop in class - $12 student / $15 regular.
🔸10 class pass - $100 student / $120 regular.
🔸Payment can be made via cash, card or bank transfer at Wellesley Studios reception before classes.

✨ see you at the studio!

This week! 🧡

🔸Monday 27 May ~ Pro Contemporary with Natasha Kohler 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursday 30 May ~ Gaming Your Practice with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann 6:30-8pm

🔸No class Saturday 2 June ~ enjoy your long weekend!

🔸Swipe through for class prices & how to register!

🔸See you at Wellesley Studios!

Pro Contemporary with Natasha Kohler!

Mondays 13, 20 & 27 May 6:30-8pm

Tash on Monday’s throughout May to heat and invigorate the body as we head into the colder months. We will work on ways of flowing in and out of the floor, dancing to juicy tunes and connecting with one another through movement

Register via the link in our bio or email [email protected]

Photo by .by.ems

✨May line up is here!✨

🧡Mondays - Pro Contemporary 6:30-8pm
6 May - Sharvon Mortimer
13, 20, 27 May - Natasha Kohler

🧡Thursdays - 6:30-8pm
2, 9 May - Animal Flow with Sarah Al Kabbani .flows
16, 23, 30 May - Class with Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

🧡Saturdays - Open Muscle and Bone 10-11:30am
4, 11, 18, 25 May - Geoff Gilson

🧡Register for class at link in our bio or email [email protected]

🧡Drop in class is $15 ($12 student) or purchase a 10 class card for $120 ($100 student). Payment can be made at Wellesley Studios reception before class via cash, card of bank transfer.

🧡DM or email me if you have any questions! See you in class ✨💪

Join us this week as we transition from April to May! 😮

🔸Monday 29 April - Pro Contemporary with Sharvon Mortimer 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursday 2 May - Animal Flow with Sarah Al Kabbani 6:30-8pm .flows

🔸Saturday 4 May - Muscle and Bone with Geoff Gilson 10-11:30am

🔸Register via the link in our bio or email [email protected]

🔸Drop in classes - $12 student, $15 regular or buy a 10 class card for $100 student, $120 regular. Payment can be made via cash, card or bank transfer at reception before class

🔸All classes are held at Wellesley Studios, 113 Wellesley St West. There is no parking at the studio, but plenty of parking across the road on Sale Street, City Works Depot or other side streets around the area.

🔸See you in class!

Week 4 of April!

🔸Monday 22nd April - Pro Contemporary with Sharvon Mortimer 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursday 25th April - no class / studio closed for Anzac Day

🔸Saturday 27th April - Muscle and Bone with Kasina Campbell 10-11:30am

🔸Register for class via the link in our bio or email [email protected]

🔸Drop in class is $15 ($12 student) or buy a 10 class card for $120 ($100 student). Payment can be made via cash, card or bank transfer at reception before class!

🔸Hope to see you there, DM me if you have any questions!

Sharvon is gracing us with her beautiful presence and epic dance moves the next two weeks! 💚

Come join her two Pro Contemporary classes tomorrow (Monday 22nd) and next Monday 29th April, 6:30-8pm

Sharvon’s classes will combine set and improvised phrases moving from floor to standing. Aiming to gently build heat and accumulate ideas from one movement chunk to the next. Exploring functional ways of moving with different textures, dynamics, and speed with expansiveness and ease in the body. Encouraging a sense of playfulness and individual approaches to movement pathways. Above all connecting as a group, exchanging ideas and energy and collectively engaging in the joy of sharing space and moving together.

See you there!!! ✨

Tomorrow! One off Pro Contemporary with Holly Finch 6:30-8pm at

Holly’s class combines a somatic improvisation based warm up, a series of floor work and technique exercises, and a choreographed phrase exploring contrasting movement qualities; with strong focus on musicality.
Holly broadly considers her practice as ‘play’... it is always evolving, and influenced by a wide range of dance styles, techniques and creative methodologies.
Her sense of purpose as a teacher is rooted in the commitment to facilitating space which allows people to explore their unique artistic voice.

Register by emailing [email protected]

Class is $15/$12 (student) drop in, or buy a 10 class pass for $120/$100 (student)

🧡 see you in class!

🔥Starting tomorrow ~ 4 weeks of Muscle & Bone with Kasina Campbell🔥

Saturdays 6, 13, 20 & 27 April
10-11:30am


Kasina Campbell is a professional dance artist and her career has spanned across 23 years with companies as Torotoro, MAU and Atamira Dance Company and as a choreographer for several Aotearoa Artists as Maisey Rika, The Pop Up Globe and Taane Mete. Kasina has also stepped into the world of acting with 2 short films and two features recently being in newly released film Whina.

Kasina’s Muscle and Bone style stems from her years in MAU and has a hybrid flair. Working from the feet up through fluid isolations to high energy movement. Fusing Polynesian steps and latin flavours into the mix. Get ready to groove and sweat!

Drop in class is $15 / $12 student or buy a 10 class card for $120 / $100 student. Payment can be made before class at reception, via cash/card/bank transfer.

Register for class at the link in bio or email [email protected]

No parking available at Wellesley Studios, there is parking across the road at City Works Depot, or Sale Street.

Hope to see you in class! 😍

April classes & training opportunities 😍

Mondays - Pro Contemporary 6:30-8pm
8th ~ with Hannah Tasker-Poland
TBC other dates, keep eyes peeled 👀

Thursdays - Animal Flow 6:30-8pm
with Sarah Al Kabbani .flows
(No class April 25th, Anzac Day)

Saturdays - Open Muscle & Bone 10-11:30am
with Kasina Campbell

All classes are held at Wellesley Studios, 113 Wellesley St West ~ there is no studio parking available, but there is across the road at City Works Depot (paid) or Sale St (free after 6pm)

Drop in class is $15 ($12 student) or buy a 10 class card for $120 ($100 student) ~ pay by card, cash or bank transfer at studio reception before class!

Register for class via the link in our bio, or email [email protected]

Get in touch if you have any questions! See you in the studio

🤗

🔸This week at Indy! & final week of March 😶

🔸Monday 25 March - Pro Contemporary with Helena May 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursday 28 March - Animal Flow with Sarah Al Kabbani .flows 6:30-8pm

🔸Saturday 30 March - No class, is closed for Easter Weekend

🔸Class prices: $15/$12 (student) drop in, $120/$100 (student) 10 class pass. Payment can be made via card, cash or bank transfer at Wellesley Studios reception before class.

🔸Register via the link in our bio or email [email protected] 🙌

🔸Hope to see you in this week’s classes!

Photo 1 - .flows by

Animal Flow returns!
flows will be back offering Animal Flow to anyone interested over the next two weeks, with potential for more in April!

Thursday 21 March 6:30-8pm
Thursday 28 March 6:30-8pm


Drop in class is $15/$12 student or buy a 10 class pass for $120/$100 student 🤩

Photo by Peter Morris

Animal Flow a ground-based, body weight movement system that combines a range of movements to create a dynamic, body weight workout. This fitness practice is designed to improve strength, mobility endurance, coordination and balance.

We’ll start the class with the warm up, wrist mobilisations and a few travelling forms. Sarah will reach the movements and then put the movements into combos that we’ll drill. At the end well our all the combos together to create a flow! 🌀

DM if you have any questions, otherwise we hope to see you tomorrow night!

Change of teacher tonight!
The brilliant Helena has stepped in to cover last minute! Woohoo, come dance with her!

Pro Contemporary tonight 6:30-8pm

Helena is an artist of Māori and Pākeha descent, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She graduated from the NZ School of Dance in 2021.

Notable career highlights so far include collaborations & performances with figures such as German choreographer Tino Seghal, as well as esteemed dance companies like Black Grace, Java Dance Theatre & House of Sands.

Drawing from her diverse training & performance experiences across Europe, Australia & Aotearoa, Helena’s practice is influenced by Countertechnique, Yoga, and a plethora of insights gathered from various teachers, artists, and beautiful friends. 

Her classes focus on gently exploring the body’s relationship with space, momentum and gravity, emphasizing movement pathways that follow the natural flow of energy. 🧡

$15 drop in ($12 student)
Come through studio reception to sign in and pay before class!

This week at Indy

🧡Monday 18 March - Improv Jam with Aloali’i Tapu 6:30-8pm

🧡Thursday 21 March - Contemporary with Bec Jensen 6:30-8pm

🧡Saturday 23 March - No class, but head along to Peeping Tom workshop at instead!

🧡Register for class via the link in our bio, or email [email protected]

🧡Drop in class - $12 student / $15 adult
🧡10 class card - $100 student / $120 adult

🔥 see you there!

Our first block of Muscle & Bone classes with Charles comes to an end! Endless gratitude to Charles for sharing his practice and energy with us ⚡️

Thank you everyone for joining us over the last couple of months, we love this community 🧡

No Muscle & Bone for the next 2 weeks but we will be back in April! Stay tuned 😊🔥

This week at Indy ✨

🔸Monday 11 March - no class, but head along to workshop with 🧡

🔸Thursday 14 March - Class with Bec Jensen (improv & set material) 6:30-8pm

🔸Saturday 16 March - Muscle & Bone with Charles Koroneho 10-11:30am

🔸Check out morning classes organised by for more opportunities to dance this week!

🔸Register for class through the link in our bio or by emailing [email protected]

🔸Class Prices & how to pay:
Casual/drop in - $15 or $12 student
10 class pass - $120 or $100 student
Payment can be made via card, cash or bank transfer at reception before class

🔸Get in touch if you have any questions! We’d love to see you in class this week ✨

March at Indy ✨

🔸Monday 4 March - Contemporary with Rebecca Jensen 6:30-8pm
🔸Mondays 18 & 25 March - Improv Jam with Aloali’i Tapu 6:30-8pm
🔸No class Monday 11 March

🔸Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28 March - Contemporary with Rebecca Jensen 6:30-8pm

🔸 Saturdays 9, 16 March - Muscle & Bone with Charles Koroneho 10-11:30am
🔸No classes Saturday 23 + Saturday 30 March

🔸Register via the link in our bio! Or email [email protected]

🔸Class Prices: $12 student / $15 regular, or buy a 10 class pass for $100 student / $120 regular
Payment can be made at reception before class via card, cash or bank transfer

See you there!

First Monday class of March is with Rebecca Jensen!
6:30-8pm / Monday 4 March

Rebecca’s class is a place to work on dancing and spend time together in action, moving in a mode of research; unpacking, experimenting, observing. Her class draws on a range of dance techniques, fake techniques, and somatic practices, imagery, score-based improvisation, and set choreography. Rebecca teaches regularly in Melbourne at Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, and Victorian College of the Arts.

Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer and, teacher based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her work includes performance for theatres, galleries, unconventional spaces and video. She works through dance, utilising it’s equally speculative and practical powers to, encourage reflection, connection and transformation in the context of the anthropocene and an increasingly digitised world.

Rebecca has presented work in FRAME Biennale 2023, Kier Choreographic Award 2016/2022, Front Beach Back Beach 2022, CONTACT HIGH, Gertrude Glasshouse 2021, Blindside Gallery 2021, Dance Massive 2015/2017. Since 2013 she has co-directed Deep Soulful Sweats with Sarah Aiken.

Recent performance history includes Jo Lloyd, Lucy Guerin, Shelley Lasica, Adam Linder, Alicia Frankovich, Lee Serle and Harrison Ritchie-Jones. She is a 2015 DanceWEB scholar, Australia council Cité internationale des arts resident 2020 and was Resident Director of Lucy Guerin inc 2023.

More March classes will be posted up soon, but don’t miss this one! 😍

Register via the link in our bio!

This week at Indy!

🔸Monday 26 Feb - Improv Jam with Aloali’i Tapu 6:30-8pm

🔸Thursday 29 Feb - Strength & Conditioning with Erin Bowerman 6:30-8pm

🔸Saturday 2 March - Open level Muscle & Bone with Charles Koroneho 10-11:30am

🔸Saturday 2 March - Sunday 3 March - Contemporary Dance & Partnering workshop with Nicole Oga (pay what you feel!)

🔸Payment for regular classes: drop in - $12 student/$15 regular, 10 class card - $100 student/$120 regular. Payment can be made via eftpos, cash or bank transfer at reception before class. This week’s workshop with Nicole is preferably a cash payment and is a pay what you feel sliding scale between $30-$150.

🔸Register for class and our workshop at the link in our bio or email [email protected]

✨

Start your year strong with Strength & Conditioning with the one & only Erin Bowerman!

First class is this Thursday 22 Feb 6:30-8pm! Don’t miss it!

Class prices:
Drop in - $15 regular / $12 student
10 class card - $120 / $100 student

Register at link in bio or email [email protected]

Erin is a qualified strength and conditioning coach with a background in dance. She holds a Bachelor of Dance (Top Scholar, 2010) and a Master of Sport & Exercise from AUT University where she carried out her research at the Australian Ballet School in conjunction with High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) looking at the risk factors for overuse injuries in elite adolescent ballet dancers. Erin is an accredited strength and conditioning coach with the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association.

Erin is also a qualified personal trainer and a published author in peer reviewed journals. She is experienced in both rehabilitation and pre-habilitation and is incredibly passionate about working together with artists, health professionals and supporting team members to provide support for and to improve dancers’ health, wellbeing and performance.

The ultimate goal at Dance Strength NZ is to create strong, healthy, educated dancers by equipping them with a toolbox of skills that allows them to develop into the best artistic athlete they can be.

Erin’s sessions provide evidence-based dance specialist and dance-specific strength and conditioning drawing from a range of modalities as well as the latest best practice from sport and dance science. Each session is tailored to the specific needs of the population of dancers she is working with. The primary focus of each session is always education, movement competency and ultimately career longevity while also aiming to target the short term goal of the dancer or dance practitioner.

Be prepared to work hard, get a sweat on and hopefully learn something new about your body!

🔔 Don’t forget we have this wonderful opportunity coming up soon 🔔

Contemporary Dance & Partnering workshop with

2-3 March,

Please register or express interest by emailing [email protected]

Spread the word to your friends & fellow dance enthusiasts!

💫Surprise! We have the incredible Tyler Carney-Faleatua joining us in the studio this month for two professional level Contemporary classes, Mondays 12 + 19 Feb, 6:30-8pm

Originally from Australia, Tyler is a graduate of The New Zealand School of Dance. She has collaborated with various artists, choreographers and companies including Marina Abramović, Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teaċ Daṁsa), New Zealand Dance Company, Ta’alili, Footnote New Zealand Dance and Atamira Dance Company. Her journey as a dancer has led her across the globe, performing and touring in live shows across New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, China, Germany and Switzerland.
Beyond her performance career, Tyler is the co-director of Threading Frames where she has been consistently funded to create, direct and choreograph dance films since 2020. Threading Frames have presented their work across the globe including New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Greece, France and Austria. Tyler has also been invited to choreograph and share her movement practice within various institutes such as Rambert School, The New Zealand School of Dance, Unitec Institute of Technology , Ev & Bow and Brent Street.

Tyler’s class will incorporate a blend of movement phrases and improvisation. She will delve into sequential and fluid pathways that have an emphasis on harnessing momentum in both standing and floorwork. Tyler has been dedicating her recent practice towards freestyling and has been exploring tools to simplify the connection between the mind and body connection during improvisation. Tyler is committed to creating a supportive environment for individuals to connect with their own bodies, accessing and attending to their needs and priorities.

Don’t miss Tyler’s two classes at Indy! Register via the link in our bio or email [email protected]

😌 see you in class

🔔 This week at Indy 🔔

We’ve had a slight switch up with some Feb teachers, and we will be adding the wonderful to our Monday line-up!

🔸Monday 12 Feb - Pro Contemporary with Tyler Carney-Faleatua 6:30-8pm (Studio 2)

🔸Thursday 15 Feb - Strength & Conditioning with Erin Bowerman 6:30-8pm (Studio 1)

🔸Saturday 17 Feb - Open Muscle & Bone with Charles Koroneho 10-11:30am (Studio 2)

🔸Register at the link in our bio or email [email protected]

🔸Class Prices: Drop in/Casual - $12 student/$15 regular. 10 class card - $100 student/$120 regular

🔸See you in class! Any questions? Email or DM me here 😌

Photo by .by.ems

If you’re a regular around here, you’ll know that Muscle & Bone with Charles Koroneho on a Saturday morning is THE place to be 🌟
Join us Saturday 10th for our first class back this year! 10-11:30am

MB (Muscle & Bone / Mind & Body) is a vigorous, rhythmic, dynamic movement and spatial training system; encouraging participants to experience the limit of their flexibility, endurance and spatial expansion. The M&B workout is about understanding the depth of relation to the ground, working space together and the communal body.
The classes are designed to be fast paced, physically rigorous and are structured for participants to experience full expansion of their external body in the space. Regular M&B training is an excellent source of overall fitness and strength.
​M&B movement approach is one part of the Body Weather Laboratory (BWL) is a research forum, founded in 1978 by Min Tanaka; a demanding and thorough reexamination of the body and movement is a main theme in all aspects of the training.

Charles Koroneho works in the fields of performance and culture. He created Te Toki Haruru (est 1997) to explore cultural collaboration and the intersection between dance, theatre, visual arts and design. His projects are presented as performances, exhibitions, research workshops and arts collaborations exploring the collision between Maori cosmology, New Zealand society and global cultures.

Koroneho is a founding member of Te Kanikani o Te Rangatahi, a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance and Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. He has performed extensively in New Zealand and abroad with Te Toki Haruru, MAU, Royal New Zealand Ballet Company and worked in collaboration with Min Tanaka, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra.

Koroneho shares his vision of dance and performance by providing movement, improvisation classes and creative workshops for dancers, actors and performance artists. He supports the arts community as a choreographer, collaborative director, cultural consultant and mentor.

Register for class via the link in our bio, or email [email protected] 👀

See you on Saturday! 😊